Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 23
Incaverned (a.) Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern.
Incedingly (adv.) Majestically.
Incelebrity (n.) Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity.
Incend (v. t.) To inflame; to excite.
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].
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.) 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.
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.
Incensant (a.) A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.
Incensation (n.) The offering of incense.
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.
Incense (v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incense.
Incensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incense.
Incense (n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.
Incense (n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
Incense (n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
Incense (n.) Also used figuratively.
Incensebreathing (a.) Breathing or exhaling incense.
Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.
Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.
Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement.
Incenser (n.) One who instigates or incites.
Incension (n.) The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire.
Incensive (a.) Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.
Incensor (n.) 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.
Incensurable (a.) Not censurable.
Incenter (n.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
Incentive (a.) 刺激的；鼓勵的，獎勵的 Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
Incentive (a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.
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.
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.
Inception (n.) Reception; a taking in.
Inceptive (a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative.
Inceptive (n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
Inceptor (n.) A beginner; one in the rudiments.
Inceptor (n.) One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university.
Inceration (n.) The act of smearing or covering with wax.
Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax.
Incertain (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.
Incertainty (n.) Uncertainty.
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.
Incessable (a.) Unceasing; continual.
Incessancy (n.) The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.
Incessant (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.
Incessantly (adv.) Unceasingly; continually.
Incession (n.) Motion on foot; progress in walking.
Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Incesttuous (a.) Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection.
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.
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 (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.
Inchangeability (n.) Unchangeableness.
Inchant (v. t.) See Enchant.
Incharitable (a.) Uncharitable; unfeeling.
Incharity (n.) Want of charity.
Inchase (v. t.) See Enchase.
Inchastity (n.) Unchastity.
Inched (a.) Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.
Inchest (v. t.) To put into a chest.
Inchipin (n.) See Inchpin.
Inchmeal (n.) A piece an inch long.
{By inchmeal}, 一點一點地，漸漸地 By small degrees; by inches. -- Shak.
Inchmeal (adv.) 逐漸地 Little by little; gradually.
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.
Inchoative (a.) Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb.
Inchoative (n.) An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.
Inchpin (n.) The sweetbread of a deer.
Inchworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.
Incicurable (a.) Untamable.
Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines.
Incidence (n.) A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.
Incidence (n.) The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.
Incidency (n.) Incidence.
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.