Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 23

Incaverned (a.) Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. -- Drayton.

Incedingly (adv.) Majestically. [R.] -- C. Bront['e].

Incelebrity (n.) Lack of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] -- Coleridge.

Incend (v. t.) To inflame; to excite. [Obs.] -- Marston.

Incendiarism (n.) 縱火;煽動暴亂 The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

Incendiarism (n.) Malicious burning to destroy property; "the British term for arson is fire-raising" [syn: arson, incendiarism, fire-raising].

Incendiary (a.) 放火的;煽動的 Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.

Incendiary (a.) Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. -- Paley.

Incendiary device, A device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.

Incendiary shell, A bombshell. See Carcass, 4.

Incendiaries (n. pl. ) of Incendiary.

Incendiary (n.) 縱火犯;煽動者;燃燒彈 Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

Incendiary (n.) A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.

Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. -- Bentley.

Incendiary (a.) Involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire."

Incendiary (a.) Arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious].

Incendiary (a.) Capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs."

Incendiary (n.) A criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: arsonist, incendiary, firebug].

Incendiary (n.) A bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb].

Incendiary, () crim. law. One who maliciously and willfully sets another person's house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson.

Incendiary, () This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states according to their several provisions. The civil law punished it with death, Dig. 47, 9, 12, 1, by the offender being cast into the fire. Id. 48, 19, 28, 12; Code, 9, 1, 11. Vide Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.

Incendious (a.) Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory. [Obs.] -- Bacon. -- In*cen"di*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Incensant (a.) (Her.) A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

Incensation (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The offering of incense. [R.] -- Encyc. Brit.

Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.

A thick cloud of incense went up. -- Ezek. viii. 11.

Incense (n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of
them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon. -- Lev. x. 1.

Incense (n.) Also used figuratively.

Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. -- Gray.

Incense tree, The name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree.

Incense wood, The fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.

Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incense.

Incensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incense.

Incense (n.) To offer incense to. See Incense. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Incense (n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets." -- Marston.

Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incense.

Incensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incense.

Incense (v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.]

Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense.

Thy glorious heap of funeral. -- Chapman.

Incense (v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
The people are incensed him. -- Shak.

Syn: To enrage; exasperate; provoke; anger; irritate; heat; fire; instigate.

Incense (n.) A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned.

Incense (n.) The pleasing scent produced when incense is burned; "incense filled the room."

Incense (v.) Perfume especially with a censer [syn: cense, incense, thurify].

Incense (v.) Make furious [syn: infuriate, exasperate, incense].

Incense, () A fragrant composition prepared by the "art of the apothecary."

It consisted of four ingredients "beaten small" (Ex. 30:34-36).

That which was not thus prepared was called "strange incense" (30:9). It was offered along with every meat-offering; and besides was daily offered on the golden altar in the holy place, and on the great day of atonement was burnt by the high priest in the holy of holies (30:7, 8). It was the symbol of prayer (Ps. 141:1,2; Rev. 5:8; 8:3, 4).

Incensebreathing (a.) Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." -- Gray.

Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.

Incensed (a.) (Her.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

Incensed (a.) Angered at something unjust or wrong; "an indignant denial"; "incensed at the judges' unfairness"; "a look of outraged disbelief"; "umbrageous at the loss of their territory" [syn: indignant, incensed, outraged, umbrageous].

Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. -- Shak.

Incenser (n.) One who instigates or incites.

Incension (n.) The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire. -- Bacon.

Incensive (a.) Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. -- Barrow.

Incensor (n.) [L.] A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

Incensories (n. pl. ) of Incensory.

Incensory (n.) The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] -- Evelyn.

Incensurable (a.) Not censurable. -- Dr. T. Dwight. -- In*cen"sur*a*bly, adv.

Incenter (n.) (Geom.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

Incentive (n.) 刺激;鼓勵;動機 [U] [C] [+to] [+to-v] That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.

The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it. -- South.

Syn: Motive; spur; stimulus; incitement; encouragement; inducement; influence.

Incentive (a.) 刺激的;鼓勵的,獎勵的 Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.

Competency is the most incentive to industry. -- Dr. H. More.

Incentive (a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire. [R.]

Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire. -- Milton.

Incentive (n.) A positive motivational influence [syn: {incentive}, {inducement}, {motivator}] [ant: {deterrence}, {disincentive}].

Incentive (n.) An additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output [syn: {bonus}, {incentive}].

Incentive (n.) [ C or U ] (C2) 激勵,刺激,鼓勵 Something that encourages a person to do something.

// Tax incentives have been very effective in encouraging people to save and invest more of their income.

// [ + to infinitive ] There is little incentive for people to leave their cars at home when public transport remains so expensive.

// Bonus payments provide an incentive to work harder.

Incentively (adv.) Incitingly; encouragingly.

Inception (n.) Beginning; commencement; initiation. -- Bacon.

Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. -- Rawle.

Inception (n.) Reception; a taking in. [R.] -- Poe.

Inception (n.) An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception].

Inception. () The commencement; the beginning. In making a will, for example, the writing is its inception. 3 Co. 31 b; Plowd. 343. Vide Consummation; Progression.

Inceptive (a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. -- In*cep"tive*ly, adv.

Inceptive (n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.

Inceptor (n.) A beginner; one in the rudiments. -- Johnson.

Inceptor (n.) One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university. -- Walton.

Inceration (n.) The act of smearing or covering with wax. -- B. Jonson.

Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax. -- Cotgrave.

Incertain (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv.

Very questionable and of uncertain truth. -- Sir T. Browne.

Incertain (a.) Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance; "uncertain of his convictions"; "unsure of himself and his future"; "moving with uncertain (or unsure) steps"; "an uncertain smile"; "touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers" [syn: uncertain, unsure, incertain] [ant: certain(p), sure].

Incertainty (n.) Uncertainty. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Incertitude (n.) 不確實;不確定 Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.

The incertitude and instability of this life. -- Holland.

He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. -- I. Taylor.

Incertitude (n.) The state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty].

Incertum (a.) Doubtful; not of definite form.

Opus incertum (Anc. Arch.), A kind of masonry employed in building walls, in which the stones were not squared nor laid in courses; rubblework.

Incessable (a.) Unceasing; continual. [Obs.] -- Shelton. -- In*ces"sa*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Incessancy (n.) The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness. -- Dr. T. Dwight.

Incessancy (n.) The quality of something that continues without end or interruption [syn: continuousness, ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness].

Incessant (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.

Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. -- Spenser.

Syn: Unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; unremitting; ceaseless; continual; constant; perpetual.

Incessant (a.) Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting].

Incessantly (adv.) Unceasingly; continually. --Shak.

Incessantly (adv.) With unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste" [syn: endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously].

Incessantly (adv.)  Without interruption; "the world is constantly changing" [syn: constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly].

Incession (n.) Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.]

The incession or local motion of animals. -- Sir T. Browne.

Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law; broadly, sexual relations between closely related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer. -- Shak.

Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law) (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation.

Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law) (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.

Incest (n.) Sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child).

Incesttuous (a.) Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection. --Shak.

Ere you reach to this incestuous love, You must divine and human rights remove. -- Dryden.

Incesttuous (a.) resembling incest; between people or groups so closely related as to make such activity improper or unethical; as, an incestuous coziness between the management of the company and its union; an incestuous relationship between the salesman and the purchasing manager. -- In*cest"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- In*cest"tu*ous*ness, n. 

Inched (imp. & p. p.) of Inch.

Inching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inch.

Inch (v. t.) 使緩慢地移動 [O] To drive by inches, or small degrees. [R.]

He gets too far into the soldier's grace And inches out my master. -- Dryden.

Inch (v. t.) To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. [R.]

Inch (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly; as, to inch forward.

With slow paces measures back the field, And inches to the walls. -- Dryden.

Inch (n.) An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.  [Scot.]

Inch (n.) [C] 英吋;少許,一點兒;身高 [P] A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.

Note: The symbol ' is the same symbol as the light accent, or the "minutes" of an arc. The "seconds" symbol should actually have the two strokes closer than in repeated "minutes", but in this dictionary '' will be interpreted as "seconds."

12 seconds ('') make 1 inch or prime. 12 inches or primes (') make 1 foot. -- B. Greenleaf.

Note: The meter, the accepted scientific standard of length, equals 39.37 inches; the inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters. See Metric system, and Meter.

Inch (n.) A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment; also used metaphorically of minor concessins in bargaining; as, he won't give an inch; give him an inch and he'll take a mile.

Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch. -- Shak.

By inches, By slow degrees, gradually.

Inch of candle. See under Candle.

Inches of pressure, Usually, the pressure indicated by so many inches of a mercury column, as on a steam gauge.

Inch of water. See under Water.

Miner's inch, (Hydraulic Mining), A unit for the measurement of water. See Inch of water, under Water.

Inch (a.) Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.

Inch stuff, Boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.

Inch (n.) A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot [syn: inch, in].

Inch (n.) A unit of measurement for advertising space [syn: column inch, inch].

Inch (v.) Advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car" [syn: edge, inch].

Inch, () From the Latin uncia. A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot.

Compare: One-twelfth

One-twelfth (n.) 十二分之一  One part in twelve equal parts [syn: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part, duodecimal].

Inchambered (imp. & p. p.) of Inchamber.

Inchambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inchamber.

Inchamber (v. t.) To lodge in a chamber. [R.] -- Sherwood.

Inchangeability (n.) Unchangeableness. [Obs.] -- Kenrick.

Inchant (v. t.) See Enchant.

Compare: Enchant

Enchant (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Enchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchanting.] To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.

       And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in.       -- Shak.

       He is enchanted, cannot speak.        -- Tennyson.

    Enchant (v. t.) To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.

       Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted.          -- Sir P. Sidney.

 Syn: To charm; bewitch; fascinate. Cf. Charm.

         Enchant (v.) Hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant, disillusion].

     Enchant (v.) Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch,      becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant]

     Enchant (v.) Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something [syn: hex, bewitch, glamour, witch,        enchant, jinx].

Incharitable (a.) Uncharitable; unfeeling. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Incharity (n.) Lack of charity. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.

Inchase (v. t.) See Enchase.

Compare: Enchase

Enchase (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Enchased; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchasing.] To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.

       Enchased with a wanton ivy twine.     -- Spenser.

       An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. -- Mickle.

     Enchase (v. t.) To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.

       With golden letters . . . well enchased. -- Spenser.

       Enchase (v. t.) To delineate or describe, as by writing. [Obs.]

       All which . . . for to enchase, Him needeth sure a golden pen, I ween. -- Spenser.

 Inchastity (n.) Unchastity. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Inched (a.) Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. -- Shak.

Inchest (v. t.) To put into a chest.

Inchipin (n.) See Inchpin.

Compare: Inchpin

Inchpin (n.) [Written also inchipin, inche-pinne, inne-pinne.]     The sweetbread of a deer. -- Cotgrave.

    Inchmeal (adv.) 逐漸地 Little by little; gradually.

Inchmeal (n.) A piece an inch long.

{By inchmeal}, 一點一點地,漸漸地 By small degrees; by inches. -- Shak.

Inchoate (a.) 開始;創始;剛開始的;未完的;初步的;剛開始的;早期的;未發達的 Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv.

Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. -- Raleigh.

Inchoate (v. t.) To begin. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.

Inchoate (a.) Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: incipient, inchoate].

Inchoate, () That which is not yet completed or finished. Contracts are considered inchoate until they are executed by all the parties who ought to have executed them. For example, a covenant which purports to be tripartite, and is executed by only two of the parties, is incomplete, and no one is bound by it. 2 Halst. 142. Vide Locus paenitentiae.

Inchoate (a.) Not completely formed or developed yet.

Inchoate (a.) Being only partly in existence or operation :  incipient; especially :  imperfectly formed or formulated :  formless, incoherent < misty, inchoate suspicions that all is not well with the nation J. M. Perry>. -- inchoately (adv.) -- inchoateness (n.)

Inchoation (n.) Act of beginning; commencement; inception.

The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. -- Sir M. Hale.

It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. -- I. Taylor.

Inchoative (a.) Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." -- W. Montagu.

Inchoative (n.) An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.

Inchoative (a.) Beginning to develop; "inchoative stages."

Inchoative (n.) Aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb [syn: inchoative, inchoative aspect].

Inchpin (n.) The sweetbread of a deer. -- Cotgrave.

Inchworm (n.). (Zool.) The larva of any geometrid moth. It progresses forward by first bringing the rear end of the body forward, forming a loop, then moving the front part of the body; called also measuring worm, measuringworm, spanner, and looper. See Geometrid.

Compare: Dropworm

Dropworm (n.) (Zool.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm or inchworm. See inchworm and geometrid.

Inchworm (n.) Small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae [syn: measuring worm, inchworm, looper].

Incicurable (a.) Untamable. [R.]

Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines. [Obs.] -- Arbuthnot.

Incidence (n.) 落下;影響;落下(或影響)方式 [U] [S1];發生率;影響範圍 [U] [S1] A falling on or upon; an incident; an event ; an occurrence. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.

Incidence (n.) (Physics) The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.

In equal incidences there is a considerable inequality of refractions. -- Sir I. Newton.

Incidence (n.) The rate or ratio at which something occurs; as, the incidence of murder in Los Angeles; the incidence of cancer in men over 50.

Angle of incidence, The angle which a ray of light, or the line of incidence of a body, falling on any surface, makes with a perpendicular to that surface; also formerly, the complement of this angle.

Line of incidence, The line in the direction of which a surface is struck by a body, ray of light, and the like.

Incidence (n.) The relative frequency of occurrence of something [syn: incidence, relative incidence].

Incidence (n.) The striking of a light beam on a surface; "he measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light."

Incidency (n.) Incidence. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Incident (a.) Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

Incident (a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered. -- Hooker.

Incident (a.) Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

All chances incident to man's frail life. -- Milton.

The studies incident to his profession. -- Milward.

Incident (a.) (Law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

Incident proposition (Logic), A proposition subordinate to another, and introduced by who, which, whose, whom, etc.; as, Julius, whose surname was C[ae]sar, overcame Pompey. -- I. Watts.

Incident (n.) That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

Incident (n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

No person, no incident, in a play but must be of use to carry on the main design. -- Dryden.

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