Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 24

Incident (n.) Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

Incindental (a.) Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.

Incendental (n.) An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals.

Incidently (adv.) Incidentally.

Incinerable (a.) Capable of being incinerated or reduced to ashes.

Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

Incinerated (imp. & p. p.) of Incinerate

Incinerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incinerate

Incinerate (v. t.) To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn.

Incineration (n.) The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.

Incipience (n.) Alt. of Incipiency

Incipiency (n.) Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

Incipient (a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.

Incircle (v. t.) See Encircle.

Incirclet (n.) A small circle.

Incircumscriptible (a.) Incapable of being circumscribed or limited.

Incircumscription (n.) Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless.

Incircumspect (a.) Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic.

Incircumspection (n.) Want of circumspection.

Incised (imp. & p. p.) of Incise

Incising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incise

Incise (v. t.) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

Incise (v. t.) To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.

Incised (a.) Cut in; carved; engraved.

Incised (a.) Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal.

Incisely (adv.) In an incised manner.

Incision (n.) The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

Incision (n.) That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash.

Incision (n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

Incisive (a.) Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.

Incisive (a.) Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

Incisor (n.) One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.

Incisor (a.) Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.

Incisory (a.) Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive.

Incisure (n.) A cut; an incision; a gash.

Incitant (a.) Inciting; stimulating.

Incitant (n.) That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant.

Incitation (n.) The act of inciting or moving to action.

Incitation (n.) That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive.

Incitative (n.) A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant.

Incited (imp. & p. p.) of Incite

Inciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incite

Incite (v. t.) To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

Incitement (n.) The act of inciting.

Incitement (n.) That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse.

Inciter (n.) One who, or that which, incites.

Incitingly (adv.) So as to incite or stimulate.

Incito-motor (a.) Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.

Incito-motory (a.) Incitomotor.

Incivil (a.) Uncivil; rude.

Incivilities (pl. ) of Incivility

Incivility (n.) The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.

Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.

Incivility (n.) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.

Incivilization (n.) The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

Incivilly (adv.) Uncivilly.

Incivism (n.) Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government.

Inclamation (n.) Exclamation.

Inclasp (v. t.) To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle.

Inclaudent (a.) Not closing or shutting.

Inclavated (a.) Set; fast; fixed.

Inclave (a.) Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

Incle (n.) Same as Inkle.

Inclemencies (pl. ) of Inclemency

Inclemency (n.) The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.

Inclemency (n.) Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe cold, wind, rain, or snow.

Inclement (a.) Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.

Inclement (a.) Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather.

Inclemently (adv.) In an inclement manner.

Inclinable (a.) Leaning; tending.

Inclinable (a.) Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth.

Inclinableness (n.) The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.

Inclinnation (n.) The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

Inclinnation (n.) A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed.

Inclinnation (n.) A tendency towards another body or point.

Inclinnation (n.) The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23¡ 28'; the inclination of two rays of light.

Inclinnation (n.) A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or will; propensity; a disposition more favorable to one thing than to another; favor; desire; love.

Inclinnation (n.) A person or thing loved or admired.

Inclinnation (n.) Decantation, or tipping for pouring.

Inclinatory (a.) Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle.

Inclined (imp. & p. p.) of Incline

Inclining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incline

Incline (v. i.) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

Incline (v. i.) Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.

Incline (v. i.) To bow; to incline the head.

Incline (v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.

Incline (v. t.) To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.

Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.

Incline (n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

Inclined (p. p. & a.) Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue.

Inclined (p. p. & a.) Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane.

Inclined (p. p. & a.) Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.

Incliner (n.) One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.

Inclining (a.) Same as Inclined, 3.

Inclining (n.) Inclination; disposition.

Inclining (n.) Party or side chosen; a following.

Inclinnometer (n.) An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.

Inclip (v. t.) To clasp; to inclose.

Incloister (v. t.) To confine as in a cloister; to cloister.

Inclosed (imp. & p. p.) of Inclose

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