Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 50

Insculption (n.) Inscription.

Insculpture (n.) An engraving, carving, or inscription.

Insculptured (p. a.) Engraved.

Inseamed (imp. & p. p.) of Inseam

Inseaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inseam

Inseam (v. t.) To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.

Insearch (v. t.) To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.

Insecable (a.) Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.

Insect (n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

Insect (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.

Insect (n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

Insect (n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.

Insect (a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.

Insect (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

Insecta (n. pl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.

Insecta (n.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda.

Insecta (n.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.

Insectary (n.) A place for keeping living insects.

Insectation (n.) The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution.

Insectator (n.) A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic.

Insected (a.) Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect.

Insecticide (n.) An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder.

Insectile (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects.

Insection (n.) A cutting in; incisure; incision.

Insectivora (n. pl.) An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.

Insectivora (n. pl.) A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.

Insectivores (pl. ) of Insectivore

Insectivore (n.) One of the Insectivora.

Insectivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.

Insectivorous (a.) plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.

Insectivorous (a.) the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.

Insectologer (n.) An entomologist.

Insectology (n.) Entomology.

Insecure (a.) Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.

Insecure (a.) Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss.

Insecurely (adv.) In an insecure manner.

Insecureness (n.) Insecurity.

Insecurities (pl. ) of Insecurity

Insecurity (n.) The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.

Insecurity (n.) The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence.

Insecution (n.) A following after; close pursuit.

Inseminate (v. t.) To sow; to impregnate.

Insemination (n.) A sowing.

Insensate (a.) Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

Insense (v. t.) To make to understand; to instruct.

Insensibility (n.) The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

Insensibility (n.) Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

Insensible (a.) Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

Insensible (a.) Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with of or to.

Insensible (a.) Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion.

Insensible (a.) Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.

Insensibleness (n.) Insensibility.

Insensibly (adv.) In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually.

Insensitive (a.) Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

Insensuous (a.) Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses.

Insentiment (a.) Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception.

Inseparability (n.) The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness.

Inseparable (a.) Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined.

Inseparable (a.) Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-.

Inseparableness (n.) The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability.

Inseparably (adv.) In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable.

Inseparate (a.) Not separate; together; united.

Inseparately (adv.) Inseparably.

Inserted (imp. & p. p.) of Insert

Inserting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insert

Insert (v. t.) To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.

Inserted (a.) Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle.

Inserting (n.) A setting in.

Inserting (n.) Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments.

Insertion (n.) The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.

Insertion (n.) The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx.

Insertion (n.) That which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.

Insertion (n.) The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin.

Inserve (v. i.) To be of use to an end; to serve.

Inservient (a.) Conducive; instrumental.

Insession (n.) The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath.

Insession (n.) That in which one sits, as a bathing tub.

Insessores (pl. ) of Insessor

Insessor (n.) One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.

Insessores (n. pl.) An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.

Insessorial (a.) Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.

Insessorial (a.) Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores.

Inset (v. t.) To infix.

Inset (n.) That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

Inset (n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

Inseverable (a.) Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable.

Inshaded (a.) Marked with different shades.

Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

Insheathe (v. t.) To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe.

Inshell (v. t.) To hide in a shell.

Inship (v. t.) To embark.

Inshore (a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.

Inshore (adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.

Inshrine (v. t.) See Enshrine.

Insiccation (n.) The act or process of drying in.

Inside (adv.) Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.

Inside (a.) Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.

Inside (a.) Adapted to the interior.

Inside (n.) The part within; interior or internal portion; content.

Inside (n.) The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.

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