INOBSERVATION — INSECURITY NWAD INOBSERVATION.1

INOBSERVATION, n. Neglect or want of observation. NWAD INOBSERVATION.1

INOCULATE, v.t. [L. inoculo; in and occulus, the eye.] NWAD INOCULATE.1

1. To bud; to insert the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant, for the purpose of growth on the new stock. All sorts of stone fruit, apples, pears, etc. may be inoculated. We inoculate the stock with a foreign bud. NWAD INOCULATE.2

2. To communicate a disease to a person by inserting infectious matter in his skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the matter of small pox or cow pox. When the latter disease is communicated, it is called vaccination. NWAD INOCULATE.3

INOCULATE, v.i. To propagate by budding; to practice inoculation. The time to inoculate is when the buds are formed at the extremities of the same year’s shoot, indicating that the spring growth for that season is complete. NWAD INOCULATE.4

INOCULATED, pp. Budded; as an inoculated stock. NWAD INOCULATED.1

1. Inserted in another stock, as a bud. NWAD INOCULATED.2

2. Infected by inoculation with a particular disease. NWAD INOCULATED.3

INOCULATING, ppr. Budding; propagating by inserting a bud on another stock. NWAD INOCULATING.1

1. Infecting by inoculation. NWAD INOCULATING.2

INOCULATION, n. [L. inoculatio.] The act or practice of inserting buds of one plant under the bark of another for propagation. NWAD INOCULATION.1

1. The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. This practice is limited chiefly to the communication of the small pox, and of the cow pox, which is intended as a substitute for it. [See Vaccination.] NWAD INOCULATION.2

INOCULATOR, n. A person who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation. NWAD INOCULATOR.1

INODIATE, v.t. [L. in and odium.] To make hateful. [Not in use.] NWAD INODIATE.1

INODORATE, a. [L. in and odoratus.] Having no scent or odor. NWAD INODORATE.1

INODOROUS, a. [L. inodorus; in and odor.] Wanting scent; having no smell. NWAD INODOROUS.1

The white of an egg is an inodorous liquor. NWAD INODOROUS.2

INOFFENSIVE, a. [in and offensive.] NWAD INOFFENSIVE.1

1. Giving no offense or provocation; as an inoffensive man; an inoffensive answer. NWAD INOFFENSIVE.2

2. Giving no uneasiness or disturbance; as an inoffensive appearance or sight. NWAD INOFFENSIVE.3

3. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. NWAD INOFFENSIVE.4

Thy inoffensive satires never bite. NWAD INOFFENSIVE.5

4. Not obstructing; presenting no hinderance. NWAD INOFFENSIVE.6

--From hence a passage broad, NWAD INOFFENSIVE.7

Smooth, easy, inoffensive, down to hell. NWAD INOFFENSIVE.8

INOFFENSIVELY, adv. Without giving offense; without harm; in a manner not to offend. NWAD INOFFENSIVELY.1

INOFFENSIVENESS, n. Harmlessness; the quality of being not offensive either to the senses or to the mind. NWAD INOFFENSIVENESS.1

INOFFICIAL, a. [in and official.] Not official; not proceeding from the proper officer; not clothed with the usual forms of authority, or not done in an official character; as an inofficial communication; inofficial intelligence. NWAD INOFFICIAL.1

Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. NWAD INOFFICIAL.2

INOFFIICALLY, adv. Without the usual forms, or not in the official character. NWAD INOFFIICALLY.1

INOFFICIOUS, a. [in and officious.] NWAD INOFFICIOUS.1

1. Unkind; regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty. NWAD INOFFICIOUS.2

--Suggesting that the parent had lost the use of his reason, when he made the inofficious testament. NWAD INOFFICIOUS.3

Let not a father hope to excuse an inofficious disposition of his fortune, by alleging that every man may do what he will with his own. NWAD INOFFICIOUS.4

2. Unfit for an office. NWAD INOFFICIOUS.5

Thou drown’st thyself in inofficious sleep. NWAD INOFFICIOUS.6

3. Not civil or attentive. NWAD INOFFICIOUS.7

INOPERATION, n. Agency; influence; production of effects. [Not used.] NWAD INOPERATION.1

INOPERATIVE, a. [in and operative.] Not operative; not active; having no operation; producing no effect; as laws rendered inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies. NWAD INOPERATIVE.1

INOPPORTUNE, a. [L. inopportunus. See Opportune.] NWAD INOPPORTUNE.1

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable in time. NWAD INOPPORTUNE.2

INOPPORTUNELY, adv. Unseasonably; at an inconvenient time. NWAD INOPPORTUNELY.1

INOPPRESSIVE, a. [in and oppressive.] NWAD INOPPRESSIVE.1

Not oppressive; not burdensome. NWAD INOPPRESSIVE.2

INOPULENT, a. [in and opulent.] Not opulent; not wealthy; not affluent or rich. NWAD INOPULENT.1

INORDINACY, n. [from inordinate.] Deviation from order or rule prescribed; irregularity; disorder; excess, or want of moderation; as the inordinacy of desire or other passion. NWAD INORDINACY.1

INORDINATE, a. [L. inordinatus; in and ordo, order.] NWAD INORDINATE.1

Irregular; disorderly; excessive; immoderate; not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; as an inordinate love of the world; inordinate desire of fame. NWAD INORDINATE.2

INORDINATELY, adv. Irregularly; excessively; immoderately. NWAD INORDINATELY.1

INORDINATENESS, n. Deviation from order; excess; want of moderation; inordinacy; intemperance in desire or other passion. NWAD INORDINATENESS.1

INORDINATION, n. Irregularity; deviation from rule or right. NWAD INORDINATION.1

INORGANIC, INORGANICAL, a. [in and organic.] Devoid of organs; not formed with the organs or instruments of life; as the inorganic matter that forms the earth’s surface. NWAD INORGANIC.1

Inorganic bodies, are such as have no organs, as minerals. NWAD INORGANIC.2

INORGANICALLY, adv. Without organs. NWAD INORGANICALLY.1

INORGANIZED, a. Not having organic structure; void of organs, as earths, metals, and other minerals. NWAD INORGANIZED.1

INOSCULATE, v.i. [L. in and osculatus, from osculor, to kiss.] NWAD INOSCULATE.1

In anatomy, to unite by apposition or contact; to unite, as two vessels at their extremities; as, one vein or artery inoculates with another; a vein inosculates with an artery. NWAD INOSCULATE.2

INOSCULATE, v.t. To unite, as two vessels in an animal body. NWAD INOSCULATE.3

INOSCULATING, ppr. Uniting, as the extremities of two vessels. NWAD INOSCULATING.1

INOSCULATION, n. The union of two vessels of an animal body at their extremities, by means of which a communication is maintained, and the circulation of fluids is carried on; anastomosy. NWAD INOSCULATION.1

INQUEST, n. [L. inquisitio, inquiro; in and quoero, to seek.] NWAD INQUEST.1

1. Inquisition; judicial inquiry; official examination. An inquest of office, is an inquiry made by the king’s officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheator, concerning any matter that entitles the king to the possession of lands or tenements, goods or chattels. It is made by a jury of no determinate number. NWAD INQUEST.2

In the United States, a similar inquiry, made by the proper officer, under the authority of a state. NWAD INQUEST.3

2. A jury. NWAD INQUEST.4

3. Inquiry; search. NWAD INQUEST.5

INQUIET, v.t. To disturb; to trouble. [Not used.] NWAD INQUIET.1

INQUIETATION, n. Disturbance. [Not used.] NWAD INQUIETATION.1

INQUIETUDE, n. [L. inquietudo; in and quies, rest.] NWAD INQUIETUDE.1

Disturbed state; want of quiet; restlessness; uneasiness, either of body or mind; disquietude. NWAD INQUIETUDE.2

INQUINATE, v.t. [L. inquino, to defile; Gr. common.] NWAD INQUINATE.1

To defile; to pollute; to contaminate. [Little used.] NWAD INQUINATE.2

INQUINATION, n. The act of defiling, or state of being defiled; pollution; corruption. [Little used.] NWAD INQUINATION.1

INQUIRABLE, a. [from inquire.] That may be inquired into; subject to inquisition or inquest. NWAD INQUIRABLE.1

INQUIRE, v.i. [L. inquiro; in and quoero, to seek.] NWAD INQUIRE.1

1. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by asking questions. NWAD INQUIRE.2

We will call the damsel and inquire at her mouth. Genesis 24:57. NWAD INQUIRE.3

It has of before the person asked. Enquire of them, or of him. It has of, concerning, or after, before the subject of inquiry. NWAD INQUIRE.4

He sent Hadoram, his son, to king David to inquire of his welfare. 1 Chronicles 18:10. NWAD INQUIRE.5

For thou does not inquire wisely concerning this. Ecclesiastes 7:10. NWAD INQUIRE.6

When search is to be made for particular knowledge or information, it is followed by into. The coroner by jury inquires into the cause of a sudden death. When a place or person is sought, or something hid or missing, for is commonly used. Inquire for Saul of Tarsus. He was inquiring for the house to which he was directed. Inquire for the cloke that is lost. Inquire for the right road. Sometimes it is followed by after. Inquire after the right way. NWAD INQUIRE.7

When some general information is sought, this verb is followed by about; sometimes by concerning. His friends inquired about him; they inquired concerning his welfare. NWAD INQUIRE.8

2. To seek for truth by argument or the discussion of questions, or by investigation. NWAD INQUIRE.9

To inquire into, to make examination; to seek for particular information. Inquire into the time, manner and place. Inquire into all the circumstances of the case. NWAD INQUIRE.10

INQUIRE, v.t. To ask about; to seek by asking; as, he inquired the way; but the phrase is elliptical, for inquire for the way. NWAD INQUIRE.11

INQUIRENT, a. Making inquiry. NWAD INQUIRENT.1

INQUIRER, n. One who asks a question; one who interrogates; one who searches or examines; one who seeks for knowledge or information. NWAD INQUIRER.1

INQUIRING, ppr. Seeking for information by asking questions; asking; questioning; interrogating; examining. NWAD INQUIRING.1

INQUIRY, n. NWAD INQUIRY.1

1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation. NWAD INQUIRY.2

The men who were sent from Cornelius, had made inquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate. Acts 10:17. NWAD INQUIRY.3

2. Search for truth, information or knowledge; research; examination into facts or principles by proposing and discussing questions, by solving problems, by experiments or other modes; as physical inquiries; inquiries about philosophical knowledge. NWAD INQUIRY.4

The first inquiry of a rational being should be, who made me? the second, why was I made? who is my Creator, and what is his will? NWAD INQUIRY.5

INQUISITION, n. s as z. [L. inquisitio, inquiro. See Inquire.] NWAD INQUISITION.1

1. Inquiry; examination; a searching or search. Psalm 9:12. NWAD INQUISITION.2

2. Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest. NWAD INQUISITION.3

The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county. NWAD INQUISITION.4

3. Examination; discussion. NWAD INQUISITION.5

4. In some catholic countries, a court or tribunal established for the examination and punishment of heretics. This court was established in the twelfth century by father Dominic, who was charged by pope Innocent III. with orders to excite catholic princes and people to extirpate heretics. NWAD INQUISITION.6

INQUISITIONAL, a. Making inquiry; busy in inquiry. NWAD INQUISITIONAL.1

INQUISITIVE, a. s as z. Apt to ask questions; addicted to inquiry; inclined to seek information by questions; followed by about or after. He was very inquisitive about or after news. Children are usually inquisitive. NWAD INQUISITIVE.1

1. Inclined to seek knowledge by discussion, investigation or observation; given to research. He possesses an inquisitive mind or disposition. We live in an inquisitive age. NWAD INQUISITIVE.2

INQUISITIVE, n. A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research. NWAD INQUISITIVE.3

INQUISITIVELY, adv. With curiosity to obtain information; with scrutiny. NWAD INQUISITIVELY.1

INQUISITIVENESS, n. The disposition to obtain information by questioning others, or by researches into facts, causes or principles; curiosity to learn what is not known. The works of nature furnish ample matter for the inquisitiveness of the human mind. NWAD INQUISITIVENESS.1

INQUISITOR, n. [L. See Inquire.] One who inquires; particularly, one whose official duty it is to inquire and examine. NWAD INQUISITOR.1

1. A member of the court of inquisition in Catholic countries. NWAD INQUISITOR.2

INQUISITORIAL, a. Pertaining to inquisition; as inquisitorial power. NWAD INQUISITORIAL.1

1. Pertaining to the catholic court of inquisition; as inquisitorial tragedy. NWAD INQUISITORIAL.2

Inquisitorial robes. NWAD INQUISITORIAL.3

INQUISITORIOUS, a. Making strict inquiry. NWAD INQUISITORIOUS.1

INRAIL, v.t. [in and rail.] To rail in; to inclose with rails. NWAD INRAIL.1

INRAILED, pp. Inclosed with rails. NWAD INRAILED.1

INRAILING, ppr. Inclosing with rails. NWAD INRAILING.1

INREGISTER, v.t. To register; to record; to enter in a register. NWAD INREGISTER.1

INROAD, n. [in and road.] The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion. The confines of England and Scotland were formerly harassed with frequent inroads. The English made inroads into Scotland, and the Scots into England, and the country was sometimes desolated. NWAD INROAD.1

1. Attack; encroachment. NWAD INROAD.2

INSAFETY, n. Want of safety. NWAD INSAFETY.1

INSALUBRIOUS, a. [in and salubrious.] Not salubrious; not healthful; unfavorable to health; unwholesome; as an insalubrious air or climate. NWAD INSALUBRIOUS.1

INSALUBRITY, n. [in and salubrity.] Want of salubrity; unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as the insalubrity of air, water or climate. NWAD INSALUBRITY.1

INSALUTARY, a. [in and salutary.] Not salutary; not favorable to health or soundness. NWAD INSALUTARY.1

1. Not tending to safety; productive of evil. NWAD INSALUTARY.2

INSANABLE, a. [L. insanabilis; in and sano, to heal.] NWAD INSANABLE.1

Incurable; that cannot be healed. NWAD INSANABLE.2

INSANE, a. [L. insanus; in and sanus, sound.] NWAD INSANE.1

1. Unsound in mind or intellect; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. [In this sense of making mad, it is little used.] NWAD INSANE.2

2. Used by or appropriated to insane persons; as an insane hospital. NWAD INSANE.3

INSANE, n. An insane person; as a hospital for the insane. NWAD INSANE.4

INSANELY, adv. Madly; foolishly; without reason. NWAD INSANELY.1

INSANENESS, INSANITY, n. The state of being unsound in mind; derangement of intellect; madness. Insanity is chiefly used, and the word is applicable to any degree of mental derangement, from slight delirium or wandering, to distraction. It is however rarely used to express slight, temporary delirium, occasioned by fever or accident. NWAD INSANENESS.1

INSAPORY, a. [L. in and sapor, taste.] NWAD INSAPORY.1

Tasteless; wanting flavor. [Not used.] NWAD INSAPORY.2

INSATIABLE, a. insa’shable. [L. insatiabilis; in and satio, to satisfy.] Incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as an insatiable appetite or desire; insatiable thirst. NWAD INSATIABLE.1

INSATIABLENESS, n. insa’shableness. Greediness of appetite that cannot be satisfied or appeased. NWAD INSATIABLENESS.1

INSATIABLY, adv. insa’shably. With greediness not to be satisfied. NWAD INSATIABLY.1

INSATIATE, a. insa’shate. [L. insatiatus.] NWAD INSATIATE.1

Not to be satisfied; insatiable; as insatiate thirst. NWAD INSATIATE.2

INSATIATELY, adv. So greedily as not to be satisfied. NWAD INSATIATELY.1

INSATIETY, n. Insatiableness. NWAD INSATIETY.1

INSATISFACTION, n. Want of satisfaction. NWAD INSATISFACTION.1

INSATURABALE, a. [L. insaturabilis; in and satur, full.] NWAD INSATURABALE.1

Not to be saturated, filled or glutted. NWAD INSATURABALE.2

INSCIENCE, n. [in and science.] Ignorance; want of knowledge. NWAD INSCIENCE.1

INSCRIBE, v.t. [L. inscribo; in and scribo, to write, Eng. to scrape. See Scribe.] NWAD INSCRIBE.1

1. To write on; to engrave on for perpetuity or duration; as, to inscribe a line or verse on a monument, on a column or pillar. NWAD INSCRIBE.2

2. To imprint on; as, to inscribe any thing on the mind or memory. NWAD INSCRIBE.3

3. To assign or address to; to comment to by a short address, less formal than a dedication; as, to inscribe an ode or a book to a prince. NWAD INSCRIBE.4

4. To mark with letters, characters or words; as, to inscribe a stone with a name. NWAD INSCRIBE.5

5. To draw a figure within another, so that all the angles of the figure inscribed touch the angles, sides or planes of the other figure. NWAD INSCRIBE.6

INSCRIBED, pp. Written on; engraved; marked; addressed. NWAD INSCRIBED.1

INSCRIBER, n. One who inscribes. NWAD INSCRIBER.1

INSCRIBING, ppr. Writing on; engraving; marking; addressing. NWAD INSCRIBING.1

INSCRIPTION, n. [L. inscriptio. See Inscribe.] NWAD INSCRIPTION.1

1. Something written or engraved to communicate knowledge to after ages; any character, word, line or sentence written or engraved on a solid substance for duration; as inscriptions on monuments, called epitaphs, on pillars, etc. We do not call by this name writings on paper or parchment. NWAD INSCRIPTION.2

2. A title. NWAD INSCRIPTION.3

3. An address or consignment of a book to a person, as a mark of respect, or an invitation of patronage. It is less formal than a dedication. NWAD INSCRIPTION.4

INSCRIPTIVE, a. Bearing inscription. NWAD INSCRIPTIVE.1

INSCROLL, v.t. To write on a scroll. NWAD INSCROLL.1

INSCRUTABILITY, INSCRUTABLENESS, n. The quality of being inscrutable. NWAD INSCRUTABILITY.1

INSCRUTABLE, a. [L. inscrutabilis; in and scrutor, to search.] NWAD INSCRUTABLE.1

1. Unsearchable; that cannot be searched into and understood by inquiry or study. The designs of the emperor appear to be inscrutable. NWAD INSCRUTABLE.2

2. That cannot be penetrated, discovered or understood by human reason. The ways of Providence are often inscrutable. Mysteries are inscrutable. NWAD INSCRUTABLE.3

INSCRUTABLY, adv. In a manner or degree not to be found out or understood. The moral government of an infinite being must often be inscrutably dark and mysterious. NWAD INSCRUTABLY.1

INSCULP, v.t. [L. insulpo; in and sculpo, to engrave.] NWAD INSCULP.1

To engrave; to carve. [Little used.] NWAD INSCULP.2

INSCULPTION, n. Inscription. [Little used.] NWAD INSCULPTION.1

INSCULPTURE, n. An engraving; sculpture. [See Sculpture, which is generally used.] NWAD INSCULPTURE.1

INSEAM, v.t. [in and seam.] To impress or make with a seam or cicatrix. [Poetical.] NWAD INSEAM.1

INSEARCH, v.t. inserch’. To make search. [Not used.] NWAD INSEARCH.1

INSECABLE, a. [L. insecabilis; in and seco, to cut.] NWAD INSECABLE.1

That cannot be divided by a cutting instrument; indivisible. NWAD INSECABLE.2

INSECT, n. [L. insecta, plu.,from inseco, to cut in; in and seco, to cut. This name seems to have been originally given to certain small animals whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided.] NWAD INSECT.1

1. In zoology, a small invertebral animal, breathing by lateral spiracles, and furnished with articulated extremities and movable antennae. Most insects pass through three states or metamorphoses, the larva, the chrysalis, and the perfect insect. NWAD INSECT.2

The class of insects, in the Linnean system, is divided into seven orders, the last of which [Aptera] includes the Crustacea, which breathe by gills, and the Arachnids, which have no antennae, now forming two distinct classes. NWAD INSECT.3

The term insect has been applied, but improperly, to other small invertebral animals of the Linnean class Vermes. NWAD INSECT.4

2. Any thing small or contemptible. NWAD INSECT.5

INSECT, a. Small; mean; contemptible. NWAD INSECT.6

INSECTATOR, n. [L.] A persecutor. [Little used.] NWAD INSECTATOR.1

INSECTED, a. Having the nature of an insect. NWAD INSECTED.1

INSECTILE, a. Having the nature of insects. NWAD INSECTILE.1

INSECTILE, n. An insect. [Not used.] NWAD INSECTILE.2

INSECTION, n. A cutting in; incisure; incision. NWAD INSECTION.1

INSECTIVOROUS, a. [insect and L. voro, to eat.] NWAD INSECTIVOROUS.1

Feeding or subsisting on insects. Many winged animals are insectivorous. NWAD INSECTIVOROUS.2

INSECTOLOGER, n. [insect.] One who studies insects. [Not in use. See Entomologist.] NWAD INSECTOLOGER.1

INSECURE, a. [in and secure.] Not secure; not safe; exposed to danger or loss. Goods on the ocean are insecure. Hay and grain unhoused are insecure. Debts are often insecure. NWAD INSECURE.1

INSECURELY, adv. Without security or safety; without certainty. NWAD INSECURELY.1

INSECURITY, n. [in and security.] Want of safety, or want of confidence in safety. Seamen in a tempest must be conscious of their insecurity. NWAD INSECURITY.1

1. Uncertainty. With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects or unseen causes. NWAD INSECURITY.2

2. Want of safety; danger; hazard; exposure to destruction or loss; applied to things; as the insecurity of a building exposed to fire; the insecurity of a debt. NWAD INSECURITY.3