Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 23

Incaverned (a.) Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern.

Incedingly (adv.) Majestically.

Incelebrity (n.) Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity.

Incend (v. t.) To inflame; to excite.

Incendiarism (n.) The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

Incendiaries (pl. ) of Incendiary

Incendiary (n.) Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

Incendiary (n.) A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.

Incendiary (a.) Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.

Incendiary (a.) Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.

Incendious (a.) Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.

Incensant (a.) A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

Incensation (n.) The offering of incense.

Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incense

Incensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incense

Incense (v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

Incense (v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.

Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incense

Incensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incense

Incense (n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.

Incense (n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense.

Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.

Incense (n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.

Incense (n.) Also used figuratively.

Incensebreathing (a.) Breathing or exhaling incense.

Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.

Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement.

Incenser (n.) One who instigates or incites.

Incension (n.) The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire.

Incensive (a.) Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.

Incensor (n.) A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

Incensories (pl. ) of Incensory

Incensory (n.) The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible.

Incensurable (a.) Not censurable.

Incenter (n.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

Incentive (a.) Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.

Incentive (a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.

Incentive (n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.

Incentively (adv.) Incitingly; encouragingly.

Inception (n.) Beginning; commencement; initiation.

Inception (n.) Reception; a taking in.

Inceptive (a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative.

Inceptive (n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.

Inceptor (n.) A beginner; one in the rudiments.

Inceptor (n.) One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university.

Inceration (n.) The act of smearing or covering with wax.

Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax.

Incertain (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.

Incertainty (n.) Uncertainty.

Incertitude (n.) Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.

Incertum (a.) Doubtful; not of definite form.

Incessable (a.) Unceasing; continual.

Incessancy (n.) The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.

Incessant (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.

Incessantly (adv.) Unceasingly; continually.

Incession (n.) Motion on foot; progress in walking.

Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Incesttuous (a.) Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection.

Inch (n.) An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.

Inch (n.) A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.

Inched (imp. & p. p.) of Inch

Inching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inch

Inch (v. t.) To drive by inches, or small degrees.

Inch (v. t.) To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

Inch (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.

Inch (a.) Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.

Inchambered (imp. & p. p.) of Inchamber

Inchambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inchamber

Inchamber (v. t.) To lodge in a chamber.

Inchangeability (n.) Unchangeableness.

Inchant (v. t.) See Enchant.

Incharitable (a.) Uncharitable; unfeeling.

Incharity (n.) Want of charity.

Inchase (v. t.) See Enchase.

Inchastity (n.) Unchastity.

Inched (a.) Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.

Inchest (v. t.) To put into a chest.

Inchipin (n.) See Inchpin.

Inchmeal (n.) A piece an inch long.

Inchmeal (adv.) Little by little; gradually.

Inchoate (a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.

Inchoate (v. t.) To begin.

Inchoation (n.) Act of beginning; commencement; inception.

Inchoative (a.) Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb.

Inchoative (n.) An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.

Inchpin (n.) The sweetbread of a deer.

Inchworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Incicurable (a.) Untamable.

Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines.

Incidence (n.) A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.

Incidence (n.) The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.

Incidency (n.) Incidence.

Incident (a.) Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

Incident (a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

Incident (a.) Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

Incident (a.) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

Incident (n.) That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

Incident (n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

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