Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 48

Innutritious (a.) Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.

Innutritive (a.) Innutritious.

Innyard (n.) The yard adjoining an inn.

Inobedience (n.) Disobedience.

Inobedient (a.) Not obedient; disobedient.

Inobservable (a.) Not observable.

Inobservance (a.) Want or neglect of observance.

Inobservant (a.) Not observant; regardless; heedless.

Inobservation (n.) Neglect or want of observation.

Inobtrusive (a.) Not obtrusive; unobtrusive.

Inocarpin (n.) A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).

Inoccupation (n.) Want of occupation.

Inoceramus (n.) An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

Inoculability (n.) The qual ity or state of being inoculable.

Inoculable (a.) Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.

Inocular (a.) Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn/ of certain insects.

Inoculated (imp. & p. p.) of Inoculate

Inoculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inoculate

Inoculate (v. t.) To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

Inoculate (v. t.) To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.

Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.

Inoculate (v. t.) Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.

Inoculate (v. i.) To graft by inserting buds.

Inoculate (v. i.) To communicate disease by inoculation.

Inoculation (n.) The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

Inoculation (n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

Inoculation (n.) Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.

Inoculator (n.) One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.

Inodiate (v. t.) To make odious or hateful.

Inodorate (a.) Inodorous.

Inodorous (a.) Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless.

Inoffensive (a.) Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Inoffensive (a.) Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.

Inoffensive (a.) Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance.

Inofficial (a.) Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence.

Inofficially (adv.) Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.

Inofficious (a.) Indifferent to obligation or duty.

Inofficious (a.) Not officious; not civil or attentive.

Inofficious (a.) Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance.

Inofficiously (adv.) Not-officiously.

Inogen (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

Inoperation (n.) Agency; influence; production of effects.

Inoperative (a.) Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

Inopercular (a.) Alt. of Inoperculate

Inoperculate (a.) Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

Inopinable (a.) Not to be expected; inconceivable.

Inopinate (a.) Not expected or looked for.

Inopportune (a.) Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

Inopportunely (adv.) Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.

Inopportunity (n.) Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience.

Inoppressive (a.) Not oppressive or burdensome.

Inopulent (a.) Not opulent; not affluent or rich.

Inordinacy (n.) The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire.

Inordinate (a.) Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world.

Inordination (n.) Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy.

Inorganic (a.) Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.

Inorganical (a.) Inorganic.

Inorganically (adv.) In an inorganic manner.

Inorganity (n.) Quality of being inorganic.

Inorganization (n.) The state of being without organization.

Inorganized (a.) Not having organic structure; devoid of organs; inorganic.

Inorthography (n.) Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling.

Inosculated (imp. & p. p.) of Inosculate

Inosculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inosculate

Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

Inosculate (v. i.) To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

Inosculate (v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.

Inosculate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc.

Inosinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, inosite; as, inosinic acid.

Inosite (n.) A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

Inoxidizable (a.) Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air.

Inoxidize (v. i.) To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.

In posse () In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.

Inquartation (n.) Quartation.

Inquest (n.) Inquiry; quest; search.

Inquest (n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.

Inquest (n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.

Inquest (n.) The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.

Inquiet (v. t.) To disquiet.

Inquietation (n.) Disturbance.

Inquietness (n.) Unquietness.

Inquietude (n.) Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.

Inquiline (n.) A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

Inquinate (v. t.) To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul.

Inquination (n.) A defiling; pollution; stain.

Inquirable (a.) Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest.

Inquirance (n.) Inquiry.

Inquired (imp. & p. p.) of Inquire

Inquiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inquire

Inquire (v. i.) To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

Inquire (v. i.) To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination.

Inquire (v. t.) To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.

Inquire (v. t.) To call or name.

Inquirent (a.) Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning.

Inquirer (n.) One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.

Inquiring (a.) Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind.

Inquiringly (adv.) In an inquiring manner.

Inquiries (pl. ) of Inquiry

Inquiry (n.) The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

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