Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 67

Intromit (v. t.) To allow to pass in; to admit.

Intromit (v. i.) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

Intromittent (a.) Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.

Intromittent (a.) Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.

Intromitter (n.) One who intromits.

Intropression (n.) Pressure acting within.

Introreception (n.) The act of admitting into or within.

Introrse (a.) Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.

Introspect (v. t.) To look into or within; to view the inside of.

Introspection (n.) A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.

Introspectionist (n.) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.

Introspective (a.) Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.

Introspective (a.) Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational.

Introsume (v. t.) To draw in; to swallow.

Introsusception (n.) The act or process of receiving within.

Introsusception (n.) Same as Intussusception.

Introvenient (a.) Coming in together; entering; commingling.

Introversion (n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.

Introverted (imp. & p. p.) of Introvert

Introverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Introvert

Introvert (v. t.) To turn or bend inward.

Introvert (v. t.) To look within; to introspect.

Intrude (v. i.) To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.

Intruded (imp. & p. p.) of Intrude

Intruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrude

Intrude (v. t.) To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.

Intrude (v. t.) To enter by force; to invade.

Intrude (v. t.) The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.

Intruded (p. a.) Same as Intrusive.

Intruder (n.) One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.

Intrudress (n.) A female intruder.

Intrunk (v. t.) To inclose as in a trunk; to incase.

Intrusion (n.) The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.

Intrusion (n.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.

Intrusion (n.) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

Intrusion (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

Intrusional (a.) Of or pertaining to intrusion.

Intrusionist (n.) One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.

Intrusive (a.) Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.

Intrusted (imp. & p. p.) of Intrust

Intrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrust

Intrust (v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

Intubation (n.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.

Intuition (n.) A looking after; a regard to.

Intuition (n.) Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

Intuition (n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

Intuitional (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.

Intuitionalism (n.) The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.

Intuitionalist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism.

Intuitionism (n.) Same as Intuitionalism.

Intuitionist (n.) Same as Intuitionalist.

Intuitive (a.) Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

Intuitive (a.) Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.

Intuitive (a.) Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive.

Intuitively (adv.) In an intuitive manner.

Intuitivism (n.) The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive.

Intumesced (imp. & p. p.) of Intumesce

Intumescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intumesce

Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.

Intumescence (n.) Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.

Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.

Intumulated (a.) Unburied.

Intune (v. t.) To intone. Cf. Entune.

Inturbidated (imp. & p. p.) of Inturbidate

Inturbidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inturbidate

Inturbidate (v. t.) To render turbid; to darken; to confuse.

Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled.

Intuse (n.) A bruise; a contusion.

Intussuscepted (a.) Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated.

Intussusception (n.) The reception of one part within another.

Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination.

Intussusception (n.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.

Intussusception (n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.

Intwine (v. t.) To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.

Intwine (v. i.) To be or to become intwined.

Intwinement (n.) The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.

Intwist (v. t.) To twist into or together; to interweave.

Inuendo (n.) See Innuendo.

Inulin (n.) A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.

Inuloid (n.) A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.

Inumbrate (v. t.) To shade; to darken.

Inuncted (a.) Anointed.

Inunction (n.) The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.

Inunctuosity (n.) The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay.

Inundant (a.) Overflowing.

Inundated (imp. & p. p.) of Inundate

Inundating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inundate

Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

Inundate (v. t.) To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.

Inundation (n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

Inundation (n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists.

Inunderstanding (a.) Void of understanding.

Inurbane (a.) Uncivil; unpolished; rude.

Inurbanity (n.) Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness.

Inured (imp. & p. p.) of Inure

Inuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inure

Inure (v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.

Inure (v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.

Inurement (n.) Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

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