Inhering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhere
Inhere (v. i.) To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
Inherence (n.) Alt. of Inherency
Inherency (n.) The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection.
Inherent (a.) Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection.
Inherently (adv.) By inherence; inseparably.
Inherited (imp. & p. p.) of Inherit
Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inherit
Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
Inherit (v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.
Inherit (v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.
Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Inheritability (n.) The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.
Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.
Inheritable (a.) Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.
Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.
Inheritance (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.
Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.
Inheritor (n.) One who inherits; an heir.
Inheritress (n.) A heiress.
Inheritrix (n.) Same as Inheritress.
Inherse (v. t.) See Inhearse.
Inhesion (n.) The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.
Inhiation (n.) A gaping after; eager desire; craving.
Inhibited (imp. & p. p.) of Inhibit
Inhibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhibit
Inhibit (v. t.) To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Inhibit (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
Inhibition (n.) The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
Inhibition (n.) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
Inhibitor (n.) That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
Inhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.
Inhibitory-motor (a.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue.
Inhive (v. t.) To place in a hive; to hive.
Inheld (imp. & p. p.) of Inhold
Inholding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhold
Inhold (v. t.) To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess.
Inholder (n.) An inhabitant.
Inhoop (v. t.) To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop.
Inhospitable (a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Inhospitality (n.) The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality.
Inhuman (a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
Inhuman (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Inhumanities (pl. ) of Inhumanity
Inhumanity (n.) The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.
Inhumanly (adv.) In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
Inhumate (v. t.) To inhume; to bury; to inter.
Inhumation (n.) The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
Inhumation (n.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
Inhumation (n.) Arenation.
Inhumed (imp. & p. p.) of Inhume
Inhuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhume
Inhume (v. t.) To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
Inhume (v. t.) To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.
Inia (n.) A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.
Inial (a.) Pertaining to the inion.
Inimaginable (a.) Unimaginable; inconceivable.
Inimical (a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.
Inimical (a.) Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
Inimicality (n.) The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness.
Inimically (adv.) In an inimical manner.
Inimicitious (a.) Inimical; unfriendly.
Inimicous (a.) Inimical; hurtful.
Inimitability (n.) The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness.
Inimitable (a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.
Inion (n.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.
Iniquitous (a.) Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding.
Iniquitously (adv.) In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.
Iniquities (pl. ) of Iniquity
Iniquity (n.) Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
Iniquity (n.) An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
Iniquity (n.) A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
Iniquous (a.) Iniquitous.
Inirritable (a.) Not irritable; esp. (Physiol.), incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle.
Inirritative (a.) Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever.
Inisle (v. t.) To form into an island; to surround.
Initial (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
Initial (a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
Initial (n.) The first letter of a word or a name.
Initialed (imp. & p. p.) of Initial
Initialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Initial
Initial (v. t.) To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
Initially (adv.) In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.
Initiated (imp. & p. p.) of Initiate
Initiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Initiate
Initiate (v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
Initiate (v. t.) To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
Initiate (v. t.) To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
Initiate (v. i.) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
Initiate (a.) Unpracticed; untried; new.
Initiate (a.) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
Initiate (n.) One who is, or is to be, initiated.