Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 43
Infuse (n.) Infusion. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Infuse (v.) Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation" [syn: inculcate, instill, infuse].
Infuse (v.) Fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" [syn: impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture].
Infuse (v.) Undergo the process of infusion; "the mint tea is infusing."
Infuse (v.) Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol" [syn: steep, infuse].
Infuse (v.) Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals".
Infuser (n.) 灌溉者；鼓吹者 One who, or that which, infuses.
Infusibility (n.) 不熔性 Capability of being infused, pouredin, or instilled.
Infusibility (n.) Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon.
Infusible (a.) 能注入的 Capable of being infused.
Doctrines being infusible into all. -- Hammond.
Infusible (a.) 不溶解的；不溶性的 Not fusible; incapble or difficalt of fusion, or of being dissolved or melted. -- Sir T. Browne.
The best crucibles are made of Limoges earth, which seems absolutely infusible. -- Lavoisier (Trans. ).
Infusibleness (n.) Infusibility.
Infusion (n.) 注入，灌入；泡浸；泡製 The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.
Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms. -- Addison.
Infusion (n.) That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration.
His folly and his wisdom are of his own growth, not the echo or infusion of other men. -- Swift.
Infusion (n.) The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion. [Obs.] "Baptism by infusion." -- Jortin.
Infusion (n.) (Pharmacy) (a) The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its active principles.
Infusion (n.) (Pharmacy) (b) The liquid extract obtained by this process.
Sips meek infusion of a milder herb. -- Cowper.
Infusion (n.) A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) [syn: infusion, extract].
Infusion (n.) The process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water).
Infusion (n.) (Medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force).
Infusion (n.) The act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality; "the team's continued success is attributable to a steady infusion of new talent."
Infusion, () med. jur. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation. Although infusion differs from decoction, (q.v.) they are said to be ejusdem generis; and in the case of an indictment which charged the prisoner with giving a decoction, and the evidence was that he had given an infusion, the difference was held to be immaterial. 8 Camp. R. 74.
Infusionism (n.) 靈魂注入說 The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.
Infusive (a.) Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing.
The infusive force of Spirit on man. -- Thomson.
Infusoria (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Formerly, the term was applied to any microbe found in infusions of decaying organic material, but the term is now applied more specifically to one of the classes of the phylum Ciliophora, of ciliated protozoans.
Note: (From 1913 dictionary): They are found in all seas, lakes, ponds, and streams, as well as in infusions of organic matter exposed to the air. They are distinguished by having vibrating lashes or cilia, with which they obtain their food and swim about. They are devided into the orders Flagellata, Ciliata, and Tentaculifera. See these words in the Vocabulary.
Formely the term Infusoria was applied to all microscopic organisms found in water, including many minute plants, belonging to the diatoms, as well as minute animals belonging to various classes, as the Rotifera, which are worms; and the Rhizopoda, which constitute a distinct class of Protozoa. Fossil Infusoria are mostly the siliceous shells of diatoms; sometimes they are siliceous skeletons of Radiolaria, or the calcareous shells of Foraminifera.
Compare: Molluscoidea
Molluscoidea, () 擬軟體動物（Molluscoidea）動物界的一門。包括苔蘚蟲綱、腕足綱和帚蟲綱三綱；也有將三綱各列為一門的。 Including Brachiopoda and Bryozoa. Mollusca, including Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, Lamellibranchiata or Acephala. Echinodermata, including Holothurioidea, Echinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, and Crinoidea. C[oe]lenterata, including Anthozoa or Polyps, Ctenophora, and Hydrozoa or Acalephs. Spongiozoa or Porifera, including the sponges.
Protozoa, including Infusoria and Rhizopoda. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary. Animalcular
Compare: Brachiopoda
Brachiopoda (n.) (Zool.) 腕足動物門（學名：Brachiopoda）是動物界的一個門，屬於底棲、有一對硬殼的海生觸手冠動物。A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.
Note: Within the shell is a pair of "arms," often long and spirally coiled, bearing rows of ciliated tentacles by which a current of water is made to flow into the mantle cavity, bringing the microscopic food to the mouth between the bases of the arms. The shell is both opened and closed by special muscles. They form two orders; Lyopoma, in which the shell is thin, and without a distinct hinge, as in Lingula; and Arthropoma, in which the firm calcareous shell has a regular hinge, as in Rhynchonella. See Arthropomata.
Brachiopoda (n.) Marine invertebrates that resemble mollusks [syn: Brachiopoda, phylum Brachiopoda].
Compare: Bryozoa
Bryozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) 苔蘚動物門（學名：Bryozoa），目前所稱的苔蘚動物已專指外肛動物。目前生存的種類有約6000種。(Zool.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Note: They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, and Pterobranchia. See Cyclostoma, Chilostoma, and Phylactolema.
Bryozoa (n.) Marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids [syn: Bryozoa, phylum Bryozoa, polyzoa].
Infusoria (n.) In some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter [syn: Infusoria, subclass Infusoria].
Infusorial (a.) (Zool.) 纖毛蟲的；含纖毛蟲的 Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth.
Infusorial earth (Geol.), A deposit of fine, usually white, siliceous material, composed mainly of the shells of the microscopic plants called diatoms; also called diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr, and diatomite. It is used in polishing powder, and in the manufacture of dynamite.
Infusorian (n.) (Zool.) 纖毛蟲 One of the Infusoria.
Infusorian (n.) Any member of the subclass Infusoria.
Infusorian (a.) 纖毛蟲的 Infusorial.
Infusory (a.) (Zool.) Infusorial.
Infusories (n. pl. ) of Infusory.
Infusory (n.) (Zool.) One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl.
Ing (n.) A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
-ing () A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing.
-ing () A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.
Note: The Old English ending of the present participle and verbal noun became confused, both becoming -ing.
-ing () A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing.
Ingannation (n.) Cheat; deception. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Brown.
Ingate (n.) Entrance; ingress. [Obs.]
Which hath in charge the ingate of the year. -- Spenser.
Ingate (n.) (Founding) The aperture in a mold for pouring in the metal; the gate. -- Simmonds.
Ingathering (n.) The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.
Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. -- Ex. xxii. 16.
Ingathering (n.) Request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" [syn: solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering].
Ingelable (a.) Not congealable.
Ingeminate (a.) Redoubled; repeated. -- Jer. Taylor.
Ingeminated (imp. & p. p.) of Ingeminate.
Ingeminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingeminate.
Ingeminate (v. t.) To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. -- Clarendon.
. . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. -- Sandys.
Ingeminate (v.) To say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell].
Ingemination (n.) Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. -- De Quincey.
That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. -- Featley.
Happiness with an echo or ingemination. -- Holdsworth.
Ingena (n.) (Zool.) The gorilla. [Archaic]
Ingender (v. t.) See Engender.
Ingenerabillty (n.) Incapacity of being engendered or produced.
Ingenerable (a.) Incapble of being engendered or produced; original.
Ingenerably (adv.) In an ingenerable manner.
Ingenerate (a.) Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. -- W. Wotton.
Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. -- Bacon.
Ingenerat (imp. & p. p.) of Ingenerate.
Ingenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingenerate.
Ingenerate (v. t.) To generate or produce within; to beget; to engender; to occasion; to cause. -- Mede.
Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul. -- Sir M. Hale.
Ingeneration (n.) Act of ingenerating.
Ingeniate (v. t. & i.) To invent; to contrive. [Obs.] -- Daniel.
Ingenie (n.) [Obs.] See Ingeny.
Ingeniosity (n.) Ingenuity; skill; cunning. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Ingenious (a.) 靈敏的，精巧的，聰明的 Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.
Ingenious (a.) Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.
Ingenious (a.) Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.
Ingenious (a.) Mental; intellectual.
Ingeniously (adv.) 有才能地；賢明地 In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly.
Ingeniousness (n.) The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
Ingenite (a.) Alt. of Ingenit.
Ingenit (a.) Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate.
Ingenuity (n.) 心靈手巧；獨創性；足智多謀 [U]；巧妙；精巧 [U]；精巧的裝置 [C] The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. -- Blair.
Ingenuity (n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
He gives . . . To artist ingenuity and skill. -- Cowper.
Ingenuity (n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness. [Obs.]
The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. -- South.
Syn: Inventiveness; ingeniousness; skill; cunning; cleverness; genius.
Usage: Ingenuity, Cleverness. Ingenuity is a form of genius, and cleverness of talent. The former implies invention, the letter a peculiar dexterity and readiness of execution. Sir James Mackintosh remarks that the English overdo in the use of the word clever and cleverness, applying them loosely to almost every form of intellectual ability.
Ingenuity (n.) The power of creative imagination [syn: inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness].
Ingenuity (n.) The property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design" [syn: ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness].
Ingenuous (a.) Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
Ingenuous (a.) Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
Ingenuous (a.) Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
Ingenuous (a.) Ingenious.
Ingenuously (adv.) In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly.
Ingenuousness (n.) The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
Ingenuousness (n.) Ingenuity.
Ingeny (n.) Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.
Ingerminate (v. t.) To cause to germinate.
Ingest (v. t.) To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
Ingesta (n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Ingestion (n.) The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.
Inghalla (n.) The reedbuck of South Africa.
Ingirt (v. t.) To encircle to gird; to engirt.
Ingirt (a.) Surrounded; encircled.
Ingle (n.) Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace.
Ingle (n.) A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle.
Ingle (v. t.) To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle.
Inglobate (a.) In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.
Inglobe (v. t.) To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly.
Inglorious (a.) Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.
Inglorious (a.) Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc.
Ingloriously (adv.) In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.
Ingloriousness (n.) The state of being inglorious.
Inglut (v. t.) To glut.
Ingluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to the indulges or crop of birds.
Ingluvies (n.) The crop, or craw, of birds.
Ingluvious (a.) Gluttonous.
In-going (n.) The act of going in; entrance.
In-going (a.) Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in-going tenant.
Ingorge (v. t. & i.) See Engorge.
Ingot (n.) That in which metal is cast; a mold.
Ingot (n.) A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Ingrace (v. t.) To ingratiate.
Ingracious (a.) Ungracious; unkind.
Ingraff (v. t.) See Ingraft.
Ingrafted (imp. & p. p.) of Ingraft.
Ingrafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingraft.
Ingraft (v. t.) To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something.
This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. -- Dryden.
A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. -- Burke.
Ingraft (v. t.) To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.
Ingraft (v.) Cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" [syn: graft, engraft, ingraft].
Ingrafter (n.) A person who ingrafts.
Ingraftment (n.) The act of ingrafting.