English Dictionary: impenetrableness | by the DICT Development Group |
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Imban \Im*ban"\, v. t. To put under a ban. [R.] --Barlow. | |
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Imband \Im*band"\, v. t. To form into a band or bands. [bd]Imbanded nations.[b8] --J. Barlow. | |
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Imbank \Im*bank"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imbanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Imbanking}.] [Pref. im- in + bank. Cf. {Embank}.] To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See {Embank}. | |
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Imbank \Im*bank"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imbanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Imbanking}.] [Pref. im- in + bank. Cf. {Embank}.] To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See {Embank}. | |
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Imbank \Im*bank"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imbanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Imbanking}.] [Pref. im- in + bank. Cf. {Embank}.] To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See {Embank}. | |
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Imbankment \Im*bank"ment\, n. The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See {Embankment}. | |
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Imbannered \Im*ban"nered\, a. Having banners. | |
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Imbenching \Im*bench"ing\, n. [Pref. im- in + bench.] A raised work like a bench. [Obs.] --Parkhurst. | |
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Imbonity \Im*bon"i*ty\, n. [Pref. im- not + L. bonitas goodness.] Want of goodness. [Obs.] --Burton. | |
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Imbound \Im*bound"\, v. t. To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Imbowment \Im*bow"ment\, n. act of imbowing; an arch; a vault. --Bacon. | |
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Imbuement \Im*bue"ment\, n. The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture. | |
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Imbue \Im*bue"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imbued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Imbuing}.] [L. imbuere; pref. im- in + perh. a disused simple word akin to L. bibere to drink. Cf. {Imbibe}.] 1. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black. 2. To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles. Thy words with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. --Milton. | |
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Impaint \Im*paint"\, v. t. To paint; to adorn with colors. [R.] [bd]To impaint his cause.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Impanate \Im*pa"nate\, a. [LL. impanatus, p. p. of impanare to impanate; L. pref. im- in + panis bread.] Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist. [Obs.] --Cranmer. | |
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Impanate \Im*pa"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impanated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impanating}.] To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist. [Obs.] | |
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Impanate \Im*pa"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impanated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impanating}.] To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist. [Obs.] | |
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Impanate \Im*pa"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impanated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impanating}.] To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist. [Obs.] | |
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Impanation \Im"pa*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. impanation. See {Impanate}, a.] (Eccl.) Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation. | |
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Impanator \Im*pa"na*tor\, n. [LL.] (Eccl.) One who holds the doctrine of impanation. | |
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Impanel \Im*pan"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impaneled}or {Impanelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impaneling} or {Impanelling}.] [Pref. im- in + panel. Cf. {Empanel}.] [Written also {empanel}.] To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. --Blackstone. | |
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Impanel \Im*pan"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impaneled}or {Impanelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impaneling} or {Impanelling}.] [Pref. im- in + panel. Cf. {Empanel}.] [Written also {empanel}.] To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. --Blackstone. | |
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Impanel \Im*pan"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impaneled}or {Impanelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impaneling} or {Impanelling}.] [Pref. im- in + panel. Cf. {Empanel}.] [Written also {empanel}.] To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. --Blackstone. | |
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Impanel \Im*pan"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impaneled}or {Impanelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impaneling} or {Impanelling}.] [Pref. im- in + panel. Cf. {Empanel}.] [Written also {empanel}.] To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. --Blackstone. | |
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Impanel \Im*pan"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impaneled}or {Impanelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impaneling} or {Impanelling}.] [Pref. im- in + panel. Cf. {Empanel}.] [Written also {empanel}.] To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. --Blackstone. | |
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Impanelment \Im*pan"el*ment\, n. The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled. | |
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Impawn \Im*pawn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impawning}.] [Pref. im- + pawn: cf. {Empawn}.] To put in pawn; to pledge. --Shak. | |
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Impawn \Im*pawn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impawning}.] [Pref. im- + pawn: cf. {Empawn}.] To put in pawn; to pledge. --Shak. | |
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Impawn \Im*pawn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impawning}.] [Pref. im- + pawn: cf. {Empawn}.] To put in pawn; to pledge. --Shak. | |
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Impen \Im*pen"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impenned}and {Impent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impenning}.] To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. --Feltham. | |
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Impend \Im*pend"\, v. t. [L. impend[?]re; pref. im- in + pend[?]re to weigh out, pay.] To pay. [Obs.] --Fabyan. | |
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Impend \Im*pend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Impended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impending}.] [L. impend[c7]re; pref. im- in + pend[c7]re to hang. See {Pendant}.] To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See {Imminent}. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. --Pope. | |
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Impend \Im*pend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Impended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impending}.] [L. impend[c7]re; pref. im- in + pend[c7]re to hang. See {Pendant}.] To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See {Imminent}. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. --Pope. | |
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Impendence \Im*pend"ence\, Impendency \Im*pend"en*cy\, n. The state of impending; also, that which impends. [bd]Impendence of volcanic cloud.[b8] --Ruskin. | |
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Impendence \Im*pend"ence\, Impendency \Im*pend"en*cy\, n. The state of impending; also, that which impends. [bd]Impendence of volcanic cloud.[b8] --Ruskin. | |
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Impendent \Im*pend"ent\, a. [L. impendens, p. pr. of impend[c7]re.] Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. --Milton. | |
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Impending \Im*pend"ing\, a. Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. --Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. --Pope. Syn: Imminent; threatening. See {Imminent}. | |
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Impend \Im*pend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Impended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impending}.] [L. impend[c7]re; pref. im- in + pend[c7]re to hang. See {Pendant}.] To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See {Imminent}. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. --Pope. | |
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Impenetrability \Im*pen`e*tra*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. imp[82]n[82]trabilit[82].] 1. Quality of being impenetrable. 2. (Physics) That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space. 3. Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness. | |
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Impenetrable \Im*pen"e*tra*ble\, a. [L. impenetrabilis; pref. im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf. F. imp[82]n[82]trable.] 1. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. --Milton. 2. (Physics) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart. They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Impenetrableness \Im*pen"e*tra*ble*ness\, n. The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability. | |
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Impenetrably \Im*pen"e*tra*bly\, adv. In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. [bd]Impenetrably armed.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Impenetrably dull.[b8] --Pope. | |
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Impenitence \Im*pen"i*tence\, n. [L. impenitentia: cf. F. imp[82]nitence.] The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another. --Rogers. | |
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Impenitency \Im*pen"i*ten*cy\, n. Impenitence. --Milton. | |
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Impenitent \Im*pen"i*tent\, n. One who is not penitent. [R.] | |
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Impenitent \Im*pen"i*tent\, a. [L. impaenitens; pref. im- not + paenitens penitens: cf. F. imp[82]nitent. See {Penitent}.] Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. [bd]They . . . died impenitent.[b8] --Milton. [bd]A careless and impenitent heart.[b8] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Impenitently \Im*pen"i*tent*ly\, adv. Without repentance. | |
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Impennate \Im*pen"nate\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. -- n. One of the Impennes. | |
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Impen \Im*pen"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impenned}and {Impent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impenning}.] To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. --Feltham. | |
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Impen \Im*pen"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impenned}and {Impent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impenning}.] To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. --Feltham. | |
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Impennous \Im*pen"nous\a. [L. pref. im- not + penna wing.] (Zo[94]l.) Having no wings, as some insects. | |
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Impen \Im*pen"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impenned}and {Impent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impenning}.] To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. --Feltham. | |
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Impeyan pheasant \Im"pey*an pheas"ant\ [From Lady Impey, who attempted to naturalize the bird in England.] (Zo[94]l.) An Indian crested pheasant of the genus {Lophophorus}. Several species are known. Called also {monaul}, {monal}. Note: They are remarkable for the bright color and brilliant matallic hues of their plumage. The best known species ({L. Impeyanus}) has the neck of a brilliant metallic red, changing to golden yellow in certain lights. | |
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Imp \Imp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Imping}.] [AS. impian to imp, ingraft, plant; akin to Dan. ympe, Sw. ympa, OHG. impf[d3]n, impit[d3]n, G. impfen. See {Imp}, n.] 1. To graft; to insert as a scion. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. 2. (Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip. [Archaic] Imp out our drooping country's broken wing. --Shak. Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes. --Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. --Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. --Cleveland. | |
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Imping \Imp"ing\, n. [See {Imp} to graft.] 1. The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic] 2. (Falconry) The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing. | |
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Impinge \Im*pinge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impinged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impinging}.] [L. impingere; pref. im- in + pangere to fix, strike; prob. akin to pacisci to agree, contract. See {Pact}, and cf. {Impact}.] To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. --Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. --Bp. Warburton. | |
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Impinge \Im*pinge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impinged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impinging}.] [L. impingere; pref. im- in + pangere to fix, strike; prob. akin to pacisci to agree, contract. See {Pact}, and cf. {Impact}.] To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. --Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. --Bp. Warburton. | |
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Impingement \Im*pinge"ment\, n. The act of impinging. | |
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Impingent \Im*pin"gent\, a. [L. impingens, p. pr.] Striking against or upon. | |
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Impinge \Im*pinge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impinged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impinging}.] [L. impingere; pref. im- in + pangere to fix, strike; prob. akin to pacisci to agree, contract. See {Pact}, and cf. {Impact}.] To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. --Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. --Bp. Warburton. | |
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Impinguate \Im*pin"guate\, v. t. [L. impinguatus, p. p. of impinguare to fatten; pref. im- in + pinguis fat.] To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Impinguation \Im`pin*gua"tion\, n. The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.] | |
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Imponderability \Im*pon`der*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. impond[82]rabilit[82].] The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness. | |
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Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, a. [Pref. im- not + ponderable: cf. F. impond[82]rable.] Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. | |
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Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, n. (Physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used. | |
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Imponderableness \Im*pon"der*a*ble*ness\, n. The quality or state of being imponderable. | |
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Imponderous \Im*pon"der*ous\, a. Imponderable. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- {Im*pon"der*ous*ness}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Imponderous \Im*pon"der*ous\, a. Imponderable. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- {Im*pon"der*ous*ness}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Impone \Im*pone"\, v. t. [L. imponere, impositum, to place upon; pref. im- in + ponere to place. See {Position}.] To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.] Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. --Shak. | |
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d8Duykerbok \[d8]Duy"ker*bok\, n. [D. duiker diver + bok a buck, lit., diver buck. So named from its habit of diving suddenly into the bush.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South African antelope ({Cephalous mergens}); -- called also {impoon}, and {deloo}. | |
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Impound \Im*pound"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impounding}.] To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. --Shak. | |
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Impoundage \Im*pound"age\, n. 1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding. | |
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Impound \Im*pound"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impounding}.] To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. --Shak. | |
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Impounder \Im*pound"er\, n. One who impounds. | |
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Impound \Im*pound"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impounding}.] To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. --Shak. | |
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Impunctate \Im*punc"tate\, a. Not punctuate or dotted. | |
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Impunctual \Im*punc"tu*al\, a. [Pref. im- not + punctual: cf. F. imponctuel.] Not punctual. [R.] | |
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Impunctuality \Im*punc`tu*al"i*ty\, n. Neglect of, or failure in, punctuality. [R.] --A. Hamilton. | |
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Impune \Im*pune"\, a. [L. impunis.] Unpunished. [R.] | |
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Impunibly \Im*pu"ni*bly\, adv. Without punishment; with impunity. [Obs.] --J. Ellis. | |
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Impunity \Im*pu"ni*ty\, n. [L. impunitas, fr. impunis without punishment; pref. im- not + poena punishment: cf. F. impunit[82]. See {Pain}.] Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Heaven, though slow to wrath, Is never with impunity defied. --Cowper. The impunity and also the recompense. --Holland. | |
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Family \Fam"i*ly\, n.; pl. {Families}. [L. familia, fr. famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, cf. faamat he dwells, Skr. dh[be]man house, fr. dh[be]to set, make, do: cf. F. famille. Cf. {Do}, v. t., {Doom}, {Fact}, {Feat}.] 1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. 2. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. --H. Spencer. 3. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family. Go ! and pretend your family is young. --Pope. 4. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage. 5. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family. 6. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family. 7. (Biol.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zo[94]logy a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. {Family circle}. See under {Circle}. {Family man}. (a) A man who has a family; esp., one who has a wife and children living with him andd dependent upon him. (b) A man of domestic habits. [bd]The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men.[b8] --Mayhew. {Family of} {curves [or] surfaces} (Geom.), a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation. {In a family way}, like one belonging to the family. [bd]Why don't we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way, and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks?[b8] --Thackeray. {In the family way}, pregnant. [Colloq.] | |
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Fang \Fang\, n. [From {Fang}, v. t.; cf. AS. fang a taking, booty, G. fang.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. --Shak. 2. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. --Evelyn. 3. (Anat.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See {Tooth}. 4. (Mining) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course. --Knight. 5. (Mech.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle. 6. (Naut.) (a) The valve of a pump box. (b) A bend or loop of a rope. {In a fang}, fast entangled. {To lose the fang}, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: {To fang a pump}, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.] | |
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Fume \Fume\ (f[umac]m), n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[umac]ma smoke, dh[umac] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice, storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fum[82]e. Cf. {Dust}, n., {Femerell}, {Thyme}.] 1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. --T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden. 2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South. 3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies. --Bacon. 4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton. {In a fume}, in ill temper, esp. from impatience. | |
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Banc \Banc\, d8Bancus \[d8]Ban"cus\, Bank \Bank\, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See {Bank}, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. {In banc}, {In banco} (the ablative of bancus), {In bank}, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at {nisi prius}). | |
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Banc \Banc\, d8Bancus \[d8]Ban"cus\, Bank \Bank\, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See {Bank}, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. {In banc}, {In banco} (the ablative of bancus), {In bank}, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at {nisi prius}). | |
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Banc \Banc\, d8Bancus \[d8]Ban"cus\, Bank \Bank\, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See {Bank}, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. {In banc}, {In banco} (the ablative of bancus), {In bank}, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at {nisi prius}). | |
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Fine \Fine\, n. [OE. fin, L. finis end, also in LL., a final agreement or concord between the lord and his vassal; a sum of money paid at the end, so as to make an end of a transaction, suit, or prosecution; mulct; penalty; cf. OF. fin end, settlement, F. fin end. See {Finish}, and cf. {Finance}.] 1. End; conclusion; termination; extinction. [Obs.] [bd]To see their fatal fine.[b8] --Spenser. Is this the fine of his fines? --Shak. 2. A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct. 3. (Law) (a) (Feudal Law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. --Spelman. (b) (Eng. Law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. {Fine for alienation} (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. --Burrill. {Fine of lands}, a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. --Burrill. See {Concord}, n., 4. {In fine}, in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up. | |
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Fettle \Fet"tle\, n. The act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. {In fine fettle}, in good spirits. | |
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Open \O"pen\, n. Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water. [bd]To sail into the open.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Then we got into the open. --W. Black. {In open}, in full view; without concealment; openly. [Obs.] | |
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Pawn \Pawn\, n. [OF. pan pledge, assurance, skirt, piece, F. pan skirt, lappet, piece, from L. pannus. See {Pane}.] 1. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See {Pledge}, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i. e., interest]. --Bacon. 2. State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. [R.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown. --Shak. As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness. --Donne. 3. A stake hazarded in a wager. [Poetic] My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies. --Shak. {In pawn}, {At pawn}, in the state of being pledged. [bd]Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn.[b8] --Shak. {Pawn ticket}, a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged. | |
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Point \Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L. punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.] 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also {pointer}. 3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line. 4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick. 5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced. 6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge. When time's first point begun Made he all souls. --Sir J. Davies. 7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope. 8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. [bd]A point of precedence.[b8] --Selden. [bd]Creeping on from point to point.[b8] --Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. --Chaucer. 9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. --Chaucer. In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon. Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ? --Milton. 10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. [bd]Here lies the point.[b8] --Shak. They will hardly prove his point. --Arbuthnot. 11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser. 12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; as: (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune. [bd]Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. 13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See {Equinoctial Nodal}. 14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See {Escutcheon}. 15. (Naut.) (a) One of the points of the compass (see {Points of the compass}, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point. (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See {Reef point}, under {Reef}. 16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott. 17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below. 18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.] 19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.] 20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman. 21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See {Pointer}. 22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See {Point system of type}, under {Type}. 23. A tyne or snag of an antler. 24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board. 25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point. Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc. {At all points}, in every particular, completely; perfectly. --Shak. {At point}, {In point}, {At}, {In}, [or] On, {the point}, as near as can be; on the verge; about (see {About}, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. [bd]In point to fall down.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side.[b8] --Milton. {Dead point}. (Mach.) Same as {Dead center}, under {Dead}. {Far point} (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point). {Nine points of the law}, all but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority. {On the point}. See {At point}, above. {Point lace}, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow. {Point net}, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground). {Point of concurrence} (Geom.), a point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base. {Point of contrary flexure}, a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides. {Point of order}, in parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules. {Point of sight} (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator. {Point of view}, the relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered. {Points of the compass} (Naut.), the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under {Compass}. {Point paper}, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design. {Point system of type}. See under {Type}. {Singular point} (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc. {To carry one's point}, to accomplish one's object, as in a controversy. {To make a point of}, to attach special importance to. {To make}, [or] {gain}, {a point}, accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position. {To mark}, [or] {score}, {a point}, as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc. {To strain a point}, to go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience. {Vowel point}, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant. | |
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Vain \Vain\, n. Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain. {For vain}. See {In vain}. [Obs.] --Shak. {In vain}, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectually. [bd] In vain doth valor bleed.[b8] --Milton. [bd] In vain they do worship me.[b8] --Matt. xv. 9. {To take the name of God in vain}, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness. | |
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Inbeaming \In"beam`ing\, n. Shining in. --South. | |
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Inbeing \In"be`ing\, n. Inherence; inherent existence. --I. Watts. | |
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Inbind \In*bind"\, v. t. To inclose. [Obs.] --Fairfax. | |
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Infame \In*fame"\, v. t. [L. infamare, fr. infamis infamous: cf. F. infamer, It. infamare. See {Infamous}.] To defame; to make infamous. [Obs.] --Milton. Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. --Bacon. | |
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Infamy \In"fa*my\, n.; pl. {Infamies}. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See {Fame}.] 1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. --Bp. Burnet. 2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. 3. (Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness. | |
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Infamize \In"fa*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infamized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Infamizing}.] To make infamous; to defame. [R.] --Coleridge. | |
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Infamize \In"fa*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infamized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Infamizing}.] To make infamous; to defame. [R.] --Coleridge. | |
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Infamize \In"fa*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infamized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Infamizing}.] To make infamous; to defame. [R.] --Coleridge. | |
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Infamous \In"fa*mous\, a. [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L. infamis. See {Infamy}.] 1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. --Spenser. 2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay. 3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness. 4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. [bd]Infamous woods.[b8] --P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. --Dryden. Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious. | |
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Infamously \In"fa*mous*ly\, adv. In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. --Burke. | |
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Infamousness \In"fa*mous*ness\, n. The state or quality of being infamous; infamy. | |
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Infamy \In"fa*my\, n.; pl. {Infamies}. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See {Fame}.] 1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. --Bp. Burnet. 2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. 3. (Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness. | |
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Infancy \In"fan*cy\, n. [L. infantia: cf. F. enfance. See {Infant}.] 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. --Milton. Their love in early infancy began. --Dryden. 2. The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. The infancy and the grandeur of Rome. --Arbuthnot. 3. (Law) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. | |
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Infandous \In*fan"dous\, a. [L. infandus; pref. in- not + fari to speak.] Too odious to be expressed or mentioned. [Obs.] --Howell. | |
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Infangthef \In*fang"thef\, n. [AS. in-fangen-pe[a2]f; in in, into + fangen taken (p. p. of f[?]n to take) + pe[a2]f thief.] (O. Eng. Law) The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. --Cowell. | |
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Infant \In"fant\, n. [L. infans; pref. in- not + fari to speak: cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See {Fame}, and cf. {Infante}, {Infanta}.] 1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. --C. Pitt. 2. (Law) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Note: An infant under seven years of age is not penally responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age, he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant has no capacity to contract. 3. Same as {Infante}. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Infant \In"fant\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength. 2. Intended for young children; as, an infant school. | |
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Infant \In"fant\, v. t. [Cf. F. enfanter.] To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. [Obs.] This worthy motto, [bd]No bishop, no king,[b8] is . . . infanted out of the same fears. --Milton. | |
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Infanthood \In"fant*hood\, n. Infancy. [R.] | |
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Infanticidal \In*fan"ti*ci`dal\, a. Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder. | |
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Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticidium child murder; infans, -antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See {Infant}, and {Homicide}.] The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. | |
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Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticida: cf. F. infanticide.] One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant. | |
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Infantile \In"fan*tile\ (?; 277), a. [L. infantilis: cf. F. infantile. See {Infant}.] Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior. | |
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Infantile paralysis \In"fan*tile pa*ral"y*sis\ (Med.) An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also {acute anterior poliomyelitis}. | |
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Rose \Rose\, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. [?], Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf. {Copperas}, {Rhododendron}.] 1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus {Rosa}, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class. 2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. --Sha. 3. (Arch.) A rose window. See {Rose window}, below. 4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump. 5. (Med.) The erysipelas. --Dunglison. 6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments. 7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink. 8. A diamond. See {Rose diamond}, below. {Cabbage rose}, {China rose}, etc. See under {Cabbage}, {China}, etc. {Corn rose} (Bot.) See {Corn poppy}, under {Corn}. {Infantile rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola. {Jamaica rose}. (Bot.) See under {Jamaica}. {Rose acacia} (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub ({Robinia hispida}) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. {Rose aniline}. (Chem.) Same as {Rosaniline}. {Rose apple} (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree {Eugenia Jambos}. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume. {Rose beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle ({Macrodactylus subspinosus}), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also {rose bug}, and {rose chafer}. (b) The European chafer. {Rose bug}. (Zo[94]l.) same as {Rose beetle}, {Rose chafer}. {Rose burner}, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame. {Rose camphor} (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil. {Rose campion}. (Bot.) See under {Campion}. {Rose catarrh} (Med.), rose cold. {Rose chafer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A common European beetle ({Cetonia aurata}) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also {rose beetle}, and {rose fly}. (b) The rose beetle (a) . {Rose cold} (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See {Hay fever}, under {Hay}. {Rose color}, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise. | |
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Infantine \In"fan*tine\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. enfantin.] Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. --Burke. | |
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Infantlike \In"fant*like`\, a. Like an infant. --Shak. | |
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Infantly \In"fant*ly\, a. Like an infant. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Infantry \In"fan*try\, n. [F. infanterie, It. infanteria, fr. infante infant, child, boy servant, foot soldier, fr. L. infans, -antis, child; foot soldiers being formerly the servants and followers of knights. See {Infant}.] 1. A body of children. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. (Mil.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry. | |
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Infinite \In"fi*nite\, n. 1. That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness. Not till the weight is heaved from off the air, and the thunders roll down the horizon, will the serene light of God flow upon us, and the blue infinite embrace us again. --J. Martineau. 2. (Math.) An infinite quantity or magnitude. 3. An infinity; an incalculable or very great number. Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er With infinite of pearls and finest gold. --Fanshawe. 4. The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty. | |
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Infinite \In"fi*nite\, a. [L. infinitus: cf. F. infini. See {In-} not, and {Finite}.] 1. Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance. Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least can not sink. --H. Brooke. 2. Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to {finite}. Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite. --Ps. cxlvii. 5. O God, how infinite thou art! --I. Watts. 3. Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious. Infinite riches in a little room. --Marlowe. Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life. --Milton. 4. (Math.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities. 5. (Mus.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also {perpetual fugues}, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). Syn: Boundless; immeasurable; illimitable; interminable; limitless; unlimited; endless; eternal. | |
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Infinitely \In"fi*nite*ly\, adv. 1. Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity. 2. Very; exceedingly; vastly; highly; extremely. [bd]Infinitely pleased.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Infiniteness \In"fi*nite*ness\, n. The state or quality of being infinite; infinity; greatness; immensity. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. infinit[82]simal, fr. infinit[82]sime infinitely small, fr. L. infinitus. See {Infinite}, a.] Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. {Infinitesimal calculus}, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal. | |
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Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, n. (Math.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity. | |
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Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. infinit[82]simal, fr. infinit[82]sime infinitely small, fr. L. infinitus. See {Infinite}, a.] Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. {Infinitesimal calculus}, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal. | |
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Increment \In"cre*ment\, n. [L. incrementum: cf. F. incr[82]ment. See {Increase}.] 1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. --Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. --Coleridge. 2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to {decrement}. [bd]Large increment.[b8] --J. Philips. 3. (Math.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased. 4. (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. --Phil. iv. 8. {Infinitesimal increment} (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See {Calculus}. {Method of increments} (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences. | |
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Infinitesimally \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal*ly\, adv. By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree. | |
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Infinity \In*fin"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Infinities}. [L. infinitas; pref. in- not + finis boundary, limit, end: cf. F. infinit[82]. See {Finite}.] 1. Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity. --Sir T. More. There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other. --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
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Infinitival \In*fin`i*ti"val\, a. Pertaining to the infinite mood. [bd]Infinitival stems.[b8] --Fitzed. Hall. | |
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Infinitive \In*fin"i*tive\, n. [L. infinitivus: cf. F. infinitif. See {Infinite}.] Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined. {Infinitive mood} (Gram.), that form of the verb which merely names the action, and performs the office of a verbal noun. Some grammarians make two forms in English: ({a}) The simple form, as, speak, go, hear, before which to is commonly placed, as, to speak; to go; to hear. ({b}) The form of the imperfect participle, called the infinitive in -ing; as, going is as easy as standing. Note: With the auxiliary verbs may, can, must, might, could, would, and should, the simple infinitive is expressed without to; as, you may speak; they must hear, etc. The infinitive usually omits to with the verbs let, dare, do, bid, make, see, hear, need, etc.; as, let me go; you dare not tell; make him work; hear him talk, etc. Note: In Anglo-Saxon, the simple infinitive was not preceded by to (the sign of modern simple infinitive), but it had a dative form (sometimes called the gerundial infinitive) which was preceded by to, and was chiefly employed in expressing purpose. See {Gerund}, 2. Note: The gerundial ending (-anne) not only took the same form as the simple infinitive (-an), but it was confounded with the present participle in -ende, or -inde (later -inge). | |
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Infinitive \In*fin"i*tive\, n. (Gram.) An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood. | |
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Infinitive \In*fin"i*tive\, adv. (Gram.) In the manner of an infinitive mood. | |
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Infinitive \In*fin"i*tive\, n. [L. infinitivus: cf. F. infinitif. See {Infinite}.] Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined. {Infinitive mood} (Gram.), that form of the verb which merely names the action, and performs the office of a verbal noun. Some grammarians make two forms in English: ({a}) The simple form, as, speak, go, hear, before which to is commonly placed, as, to speak; to go; to hear. ({b}) The form of the imperfect participle, called the infinitive in -ing; as, going is as easy as standing. Note: With the auxiliary verbs may, can, must, might, could, would, and should, the simple infinitive is expressed without to; as, you may speak; they must hear, etc. The infinitive usually omits to with the verbs let, dare, do, bid, make, see, hear, need, etc.; as, let me go; you dare not tell; make him work; hear him talk, etc. Note: In Anglo-Saxon, the simple infinitive was not preceded by to (the sign of modern simple infinitive), but it had a dative form (sometimes called the gerundial infinitive) which was preceded by to, and was chiefly employed in expressing purpose. See {Gerund}, 2. Note: The gerundial ending (-anne) not only took the same form as the simple infinitive (-an), but it was confounded with the present participle in -ende, or -inde (later -inge). | |
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Infinitude \In*fin"i*tude\, n. 1. The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness. 2. Infinite extent; unlimited space; immensity; infinity. [bd]I am who fill infinitude.[b8] --Milton. As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. --Addison. 3. Boundless number; countless multitude. [bd]An infinitude of distinctions.[b8] --Addison. | |
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Infinituple \In*fin"i*tu`ple\, a. [Cf. {Quadruple}.] Multipied an infinite number of times. [R.] --Wollaston. | |
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Infinity \In*fin"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Infinities}. [L. infinitas; pref. in- not + finis boundary, limit, end: cf. F. infinit[82]. See {Finite}.] 1. Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity. --Sir T. More. There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other. --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
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Infound \In*found"\, v. t. [L. infundere to pour in. See {Infuse}.] To pour in; to infuse. [Obs.] --Sir T. More. | |
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Infumate \In"fu*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infumated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Infumating}.] [L. infumatus, p. p. of infumare to infumate; pref. in- in + fumare to smoke, fr. fumus smoke.] To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke. | |
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Infumate \In"fu*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infumated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Infumating}.] [L. infumatus, p. p. of infumare to infumate; pref. in- in + fumare to smoke, fr. fumus smoke.] To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke. | |
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Infumated \In"fu*ma`ted\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Clouded; having a cloudy appearance. | |
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Infumate \In"fu*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infumated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Infumating}.] [L. infumatus, p. p. of infumare to infumate; pref. in- in + fumare to smoke, fr. fumus smoke.] To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke. | |
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Infumation \In`fu*ma"tion\, n. Act of drying in smoke. | |
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Infumed \In*fumed"\, a. Dried in smoke; smoked. | |
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d8Infundibulum \[d8]In`fun*dib"u*lum\, n.; pl. L. {Infundibula}, E. {Infundibulums}. [L., a funnel, from infundere to pour in or into. See {Infuse}.] 1. (Anat.) A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads. (b) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See {Cephalopoda}. | |
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Infundibular \In`fun*dib"u*lar\, Infundibulate \In`fun*dib"u*late\, a. [See {Infundibulum}.] Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. {Infundibulate Bryozoa} (Zo[94]l.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk. | |
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Infundibular \In`fun*dib"u*lar\, Infundibulate \In`fun*dib"u*late\, a. [See {Infundibulum}.] Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. {Infundibulate Bryozoa} (Zo[94]l.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk. | |
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Infundibular \In`fun*dib"u*lar\, Infundibulate \In`fun*dib"u*late\, a. [See {Infundibulum}.] Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. {Infundibulate Bryozoa} (Zo[94]l.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk. | |
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Infundibuliform \In`fun*dib"u*li*form\, a. [L. infundibulum funnel + -form: cf. F. infundibuliforme.] 1. Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped. 2. (Bot.) Same as {Funnelform}. | |
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d8Infundibulum \[d8]In`fun*dib"u*lum\, n.; pl. L. {Infundibula}, E. {Infundibulums}. [L., a funnel, from infundere to pour in or into. See {Infuse}.] 1. (Anat.) A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads. (b) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See {Cephalopoda}. | |
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Infuneral \In*fu"ner*al\, v. t. To inter with funeral rites; to bury. [Obs.] --G. Fletcher. | |
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Inoffensive \In"of*fen"sive\, a. [Pref. in- not + offensiue: cf. F. inoffensif.] 1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. --Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] --Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. --Addison. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ness}, n. | |
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Inoffensive \In"of*fen"sive\, a. [Pref. in- not + offensiue: cf. F. inoffensif.] 1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. --Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] --Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. --Addison. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ness}, n. | |
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Inoffensive \In"of*fen"sive\, a. [Pref. in- not + offensiue: cf. F. inoffensif.] 1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. --Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] --Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. --Addison. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ness}, n. | |
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Inopinable \In`o*pin"a*ble\, a. [L. inopinabilis. See {Inopinate}.] Not to be expected; inconceivable. [Obs.] [bd]Inopinable, incredible . . . saings.[b8] --Latimer. | |
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Inopinate \In*op"i*nate\, a. [L. inopinatus. See {In-} not, and {Opine}.] Not expected or looked for. [Obs.] | |
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Invendibility \In*vend`i*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness. | |
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Invendible \In*vend"i*ble\, a. [L. invendibilis. See {In-} not, and {Vendible}.] Not vendible or salable. --Jefferson. -- {In*vend"i*ble*ness}, n. | |
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Invendible \In*vend"i*ble\, a. [L. invendibilis. See {In-} not, and {Vendible}.] Not vendible or salable. --Jefferson. -- {In*vend"i*ble*ness}, n. | |
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Invenom \In*ven"om\, v. t. See {Envenom}. | |
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Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventing}.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See {Come}.] 1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser. 2. To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper. 3. To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See {Discover}. | |
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Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventing}.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See {Come}.] 1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser. 2. To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper. 3. To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See {Discover}. | |
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Inventer \In*vent"er\, n. One who invents. | |
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Inventful \In*vent"ful\, a. Full of invention. --J. Gifford. | |
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Inventible \In*vent"i*ble\, a. Capable of being invented. | |
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Inventibleness \In*vent"i*ble*ness\, n. Quality of being inventible. | |
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Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventing}.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See {Come}.] 1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser. 2. To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper. 3. To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See {Discover}. | |
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Invention \In*ven"tion\, n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See {Invent}.] 1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. | |
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As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man. --Tatham. 2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. --Evelyn. 3. Thought; idea. --Shak. 4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. --Shak. 5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. --Dryden. 6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. {Invention of the cross} (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena. | |
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Inventious \In*ven"tious\, a. Inventive. [Obs.] | |
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Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. -- {In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n. | |
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Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. -- {In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n. | |
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Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. -- {In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n. | |
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Inventor \In*vent"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. inventeur.] One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices. | |
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Inventorial \In`ven*to"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- {In`ven*to"ri*al*ly}, adv. --Shak. | |
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Inventorial \In`ven*to"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- {In`ven*to"ri*al*ly}, adv. --Shak. | |
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Inventory \In"ven*to*ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inventoried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventorying}.] [Cf. F. inventorier.] To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled. --Shak. | |
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Inventory \In"ven*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Inventories}. [L. inventarium: cf. LL. inventorium, F. inventaire, OF. also inventoire. See {Invent}.] An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. --Shak. Syn: List; register; schedule; catalogue. See {List}. | |
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Inventory \In"ven*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Inventories}. [L. inventarium: cf. LL. inventorium, F. inventaire, OF. also inventoire. See {Invent}.] An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. --Shak. Syn: List; register; schedule; catalogue. See {List}. | |
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Inventory \In"ven*to*ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inventoried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventorying}.] [Cf. F. inventorier.] To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled. --Shak. | |
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Inventory \In"ven*to*ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inventoried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventorying}.] [Cf. F. inventorier.] To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled. --Shak. | |
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Inventress \In*vent"ress\, n. [Cf. L. inventrix, F. inventrice.] A woman who invents. --Dryden. | |
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Invincibility \In*vin`ci*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. invincibilit[82].] The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness. | |
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Invincible \In*vin"ci*ble\, a. [L. invincibilis: cf. F. invincible. See {In-} not, and {Vincible}.] Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible. --Milton. -- {In*vin"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*vin"ci*bly}, adv. | |
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Ignorance \Ig"no*rance\, n. [F., fr. L. ignorantia.] 1. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --Shak. 2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book of Common Prayer. {Invincible ignorance} (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God. | |
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Invincible \In*vin"ci*ble\, a. [L. invincibilis: cf. F. invincible. See {In-} not, and {Vincible}.] Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible. --Milton. -- {In*vin"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*vin"ci*bly}, adv. | |
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Invincible \In*vin"ci*ble\, a. [L. invincibilis: cf. F. invincible. See {In-} not, and {Vincible}.] Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible. --Milton. -- {In*vin"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*vin"ci*bly}, adv. | |
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infant mortality n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip and wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks; such failures are often referred to as `infant mortality' problems (or, occasionally, as `sudden infant death syndrome'). See {bathtub curve}, {burn-in period}. | |
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infinite adj. [common] Consisting of a large number of objects; extreme. Used very loosely as in: "This program produces infinite garbage." "He is an infinite loser." The word most likely to follow `infinite', though, is {hair}. (It has been pointed out that fractals are an excellent example of infinite hair.) These uses are abuses of the word's mathematical meaning. The term `semi-infinite', denoting an immoderately large amount of some resource, is also heard. "This compiler is taking a semi-infinite amount of time to optimize my program." See also {semi}. | |
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infinite loop n. One that never terminates (that is, the machine {spin}s or {buzz}es forever and goes {catatonic}). There is a standard joke that has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" | |
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Infinite-Monkey Theorem n. "If you put an {infinite} number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet." (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time.) This theorem asserts nothing about the intelligence of the one {random} monkey that eventually comes up with the script (and note that the mob will also type out all the possible _incorrect_ versions of Hamlet). It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a {brute force} method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a {one-banana problem}. This argument gets more respect since {Linux} justified the {bazaar} mode of development. This theorem was first popularized by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. It became part of the idiom of techies via the classic SF short story "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through a reference in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". | |
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infinity n. 1. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever). 2. `minus infinity': The smallest such value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N-bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is - (2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1). Note also that this is different from "time T equals minus infinity", which is closer to a mathematician's usage of infinity. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
IN point {point} equal to 0.4 mm. (2002-03-11) | |
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in-band information on the same channel as the telephone call or data transmission. Since one bit in a frame is periodically used for signalling instead of data, this is often referred to as {bit robbing}. This is the reason why a {D1} channel in the T-carrier system can only carry 56 Kbps of usable data instead of the 64 Kbps carried by the {D0} channel in the E-carrier system. (2000-03-10) | |
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infant mortality electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip and wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks; such failures are often referred to as "infant mortality" problems (or, occasionally, as "sudden infant death syndrome"). See {bathtub curve}, {burn-in period}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-20) | |
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infimum {greatest lower bound} | |
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infinite various formal set definitions in {set theory}: a set X is infinite if (i) There is a bijection between X and a proper subset of X. (ii) There is an injection from the set N of natural numbers to X. (iii) There is an injection from each natural number n to X. These definitions are not necessarily equivalent unless we accept the {Axiom of Choice}. 2. The length of a line extended indefinitely. See also {infinite loop}, {infinite set}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-29) | |
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Infinite Impulse Response which every {sample} of output is the weighted sum of past and current samples of input, using all past samples, but the weights of past samples are an inverse function of the sample age, approaching zero for old samples. (2001-06-06) | |
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infinite loop executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a {bug}, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an {embedded system} which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some {operating system} kernels following a {panic}. A program executing an infinite loop is said to {spin} or {buzz} forever and goes {catatonic}. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also {black hole}, {recursion}, {infinite loop}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-05-11) | |
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Infinite Monkey Theorem typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet." (One may also hypothesise a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time.) This theorem asserts nothing about the intelligence of the one {random} monkey that eventually comes up with the script (and note that the mob will also type out all the possible *incorrect* versions of Hamlet). It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a {brute force} method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a {one-banana problem}. This theorem was first popularised by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. It became part of the idiom through the classic short story "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through a reference in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". See also: {RFC 2795}. [{Jargon File}] (2002-04-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
infinite set There are several possible definitions, e.g. (i) ("Dedekind infinite") A set X is infinite if there exists a {bijection} (one-to-one mapping) between X and some proper subset of X. (ii) A set X is infinite if there exists an {injection} from N (the set of {natural number}s) to X. In the presence of the {Axiom of Choice} all such definitions are equivalent. (1995-03-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
infinity 1. Using the word in the context of sets is sloppy, since different {infinite set}s aren't necessarily the same size {cardinality} as each other. See also {aleph 0} 2. a particular type of variable ({register}, memory location, data type, whatever). See also {minus infinity}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-18) | |
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INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare: an Italian State research organisation. |