Indian (n.) A native or inhabitant of India.
Indian (n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
Indianeer (n.) An Indiaman.
India rubber () See Caoutchouc.
Indical (a.) Indexical.
Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.
Indican (n.) An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.
Indicant (a.) Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.
Indicant (n.) That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease.
Indicated (imp. & p. p.) of Indicate
Indicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indicate
Indicate (v. t.) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
Indicate (v. t.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.
Indicate (v. t.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
Indicated (a.) Shown; denoted; registered; measured.
Indication (n.) Act of pointing out or indicating.
Indication (n.) That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
Indication (n.) Discovery made; information.
Indication (n.) Explanation; display.
Indication (n.) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
Indicative (a.) Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.
Indicative (a.) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc.
Indicative (n.) The indicative mood.
Indicatively (adv.) In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
Indicator (n.) One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
Indicator (n.) A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part
Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below).
Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc.
Indicator (n.) The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer.
Indicator (n.) Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey.
Indicator (n.) That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis.
Indicatory (a.) Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.
Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.
Indicavit (n.) A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.
Indice (n.) Index; indication.
Indices (n. pl.) See Index.
Indicia (n. pl.) Discriminating marks; signs; tokens; indications; appearances.
Indicible (a.) Unspeakable.
Indicolite (n.) A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color.
Indicted (imp. & p. p.) of Indict
Indicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indict
Indict (v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
Indict (v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
Indictable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense.
Indictee (n.) A person indicted.
Indicter (n.) One who indicts.
Indiction (n.) Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.
Indictive (a.) Proclaimed; declared; public.
Indictment (n.) The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.
Indictment (n.) The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury.
Indictment (n.) An accusation in general; a formal accusation.
Indictor (n.) One who indicts.
Indies (n. pl.) A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.
Indifference (n.) The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
Indifference (n.) Passableness; mediocrity.
Indifference (n.) Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
Indifference (n.) Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.
Indifferency (n.) Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference.
Indifferent (a.) Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
Indifferent (a.) Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.
Indifferent (a.) Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial.
Indifferent (a.) Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family.
Indifferent (a.) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested.
Indifferent (adv.) To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.
Indifferentism (n.) State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism.
Indifferentism (n.) Same as Identism.
Indifferentism (n.) A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good.
Indifferentist (n.) One governed by indifferentism.
Indifferently (adv.) In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably.
Indifulvin (n.) A reddish resinous substance, obtained from indican.
Indifuscin (n.) A brown amorphous powder, obtained from indican.
Indigeen (n.) Same as Indigene.
Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.
Indigency (n.) Indigence.
Indigene (n.) One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon.
Indigenous (a.) Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.
Indigenous (a.) Native; inherent; innate.
Indigent (a.) Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.
Indigent (a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Indigently (adv.) In an indigent manner.
Indigest (a.) Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested.
Indigest (n.) Something indigested.
Indigested (a.) Not digested; undigested.
Indigested (a.) Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts.
Indigested (a.) Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds.
Indigested (a.) Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.
Indigested (a.) Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.
Indigestedness (n.) The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness.
Indigestibility (n.) The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.
Indigestible (a.) Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.
Indigestible (a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile.
Indigestion (n.) Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
Indigitate (v. i.) To communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers.
Indigitated (imp. & p. p.) of Indigitate
Indigitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indigitate
Indigitate (v. t.) To point out with the finger; to indicate.
Indigitation (n.) The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication.
Indiglucin (n.) The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution.