Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 25

Inclosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inclose

Inclose (v. t.) To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.

Inclose (v. t.) To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note.

Inclose (v. t.) To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.

Inclose (v. t.) To put into harness; to harness.

Incloser (n.) One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

Inclosure (n.) The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.

Inclosure (n.) That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.

Inclosure (n.) That which incloses; a barrier or fence.

Incloud (v. t.) To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure.

Included (imp. & p. p.) of Include

Including (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Include

Include (v. t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

Include (v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.

Include (v. t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.

Included (a.) Inclosed; confined.

Includible (a.) Capable of being included.

Inclusa (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example.

Inclusion (n.) The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy.

Inclusion (n.) A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.

Inclusive (a.) Inclosing; encircling; surrounding.

Inclusive (a.) Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday; -- opposed to exclusive.

Inclusively (adv.) In an inclusive manner.

Incoach (v. t.) To put a coach.

Incoact (a.) Alt. of Incoacted

Incoacted (a.) Not compelled; unconstrained.

Incoagulable (a.) Not coagulable.

Incoalescence (n.) The state of not coalescing.

Incocted (a.) Raw; indigestible.

Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

Incoercible (a.) Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide, formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or pressure.

Incoercible (a.) That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.

Incoexistence (n.) The state of not coexisting.

Incog (adv.) Incognito.

Incogitable (a.) Not cogitable; inconceivable.

Incogitance (n.) Alt. of Incogitancy

Incogitancy (n.) Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness.

Incogitant (a.) Toughtless; inconsiderate.

Incogitantly (adv.) In an incogitant manner.

Incogitative (a.) Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being.

Incogitativity (n.) The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking.

Incognita (n.) A woman who is unknown or in disguise.

Incognita (n.) The state of being in disguise; -- said of a woman.

Incognitant (a.) Ignorant.

Incognito (a. / adv.) Without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; -- said esp. of great personages who sometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoid notice.

Incognitos (pl. ) of Incognito

Incognito (a.) One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.

Incognito (a.) The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.

Incognizable (a.) Not cognizable; incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished.

Incognizance (n.) Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice.

Incognizant (a.) Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice.

Incognoscible (a.) Incognizable.

Incoherence (n.) Alt. of Incoherency

Incoherency (n.) The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence.

Incoherency (n.) Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts, etc.

Incoherency (n.) That which is incoherent.

Incoherent (a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.

Incoherent (a.) Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.

Incoherentific (a.) Causing incoherence.

Incoherently (adv.) In an incoherent manner; without due connection of parts.

Incoherentness (n.) Incoherence.

Incoincidence (n.) The quality of being incoincident; want of coincidence.

Incoincident (a.) Not coincident; not agreeing in time, in place, or principle.

Incolumity (n.) Safety; security.

Incomber (v. t.) See Encumber.

Incombine (v. i.) To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ.

Incombustibility (n.) The quality of being incombustible.

Incombustible (a.) Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas.

Income (n.) A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

Income (n.) That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.

Income (n.) That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income.

Income (n.) That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output.

Incomer (n.) One who comes in.

Incomer (n.) One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc.

Incoming (a.) Coming in; accruing.

Incoming (a.) Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor; as, in incoming tenant.

Incoming (n.) The act of coming in; arrival.

Incoming (n.) Income; gain.

Incomity (n.) Want of comity; incivility; rudeness.

In commendam () See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership.

Incommensurability (n.) The quality or state of being incommensurable.

Incommensurable (a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.

Incommensurable (n.) One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

Incommensurate (a.) Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

Incommensurate (a.) Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.

Incommiscible (a.) Not commiscible; not mixable.

Incommixture (n.) A state of being unmixed; separateness.

Incommodated (imp. & p. p.) of Incommodate

Incommodating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incommodate

Incommodate (v. t.) To incommode.

Incommodation (n.) The state of being incommoded; inconvenience.

Incommoded (imp. & p. p.) of Incommode

Incommoding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incommode

Incommode (v. t.) To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

Incommode (n.) An inconvenience.

Incommodement (n.) The act of incommoded.

Incommodious (a.) Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying; as, an incommodious seat; an incommodious arrangement.

Incommodities (pl. ) of Incommodity

Incommodity (n.) Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance.

Incommunicability (n.) The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted.

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