Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 50
Insculption (n.) Inscription. [Obs.]
Insculpture (n.) An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.]
On his gravestone this insculpture. -- Shak.
Insculptured (p. a.) Engraved. -- Glover.
Inseamed (imp. & p. p.) of Inseam.
Inseaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inseam.
Inseam (v. t.) To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix. -- Pope.
Insearch (v. t.) To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]
Insecable (a.) Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.
Insect (n.) (Zool.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
Note: The hexapod insects pass through three stages during their growth, viz., the larva, pupa, and imago or adult, but in some of the orders the larva differs little from the imago, except in lacking wings, and the active pupa is very much like the larva, except in having rudiments of wings. In the higher orders, the larva is usually a grub, maggot, or caterpillar, totally unlike the adult, while the pupa is very different from both larva and imago and is inactive, taking no food.
Insect (n.) (Zool.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
Insect (n.) (Zool.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
Insect (n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. -- Thomson.
Insect powder, A powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder.
Insect (a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
Insect (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Insect (n.) Small air-breathing arthropod.
Insect (n.) A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: worm, louse, insect, dirt ball].
Insecta (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.
Insecta (n.) (Zool.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda.
Insecta (n.) (Zool.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: Hymenoptera, as the bees and ants; Diptera, as the common flies, gnats, and mosquitos; Aphaniptera, or fleas; Lepidoptera, or moths and butterflies; Neuroptera, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; Coleoptera, or beetles; Hemiptera, as bugs, lice, aphids; Orthoptera, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; Pseudoneuroptera, as the dragon flies and termites; Euplexoptera, or earwigs; Thysanura, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma.
See these words in the Vocabulary.
Insecta (n.) Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species [syn: Insecta, class Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda].
Insectary (n.) A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. [L.]
Insectation (n.) The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.
Insectator (n.) A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Insected (a.) Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. -- Howell.
Insecticide (n.) An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
Insecticide (n.) A chemical used to kill insects [syn: insecticide, insect powder].
Insectile (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. -- Bacon.
Insection (n.) A cutting in; incisure; incision.
Insectivora (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.
Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order includes the moles, shrews, hedgehogs, tanrecs, and allied animals, also the colugo.
Insectivora (n. pl.) A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.
Insectivora (n.) Shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs [syn: Insectivora, order Insectivora].
Insectivores (n. pl. ) of Insectivore.
Insectivore (n.) (Zool.) One of the Insectivora.
Insectivorous (a.) 食蟲的 Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied:
Insectivorous (a.) To plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
Insectivorous (a.) To the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.
Insectivorous (a.) (Of animals and plants) Feeding on insects [ant: carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous].
Insectologer (n.) An entomologist. [Obs.]
Compare: Entomologist
Entomologist (n.) 昆蟲學家One versed in entomology.
Entomologist (n.) A zoologist who studies insects [syn: entomologist, bugologist, bug-hunter].
Insectology (n.) 昆蟲學 Entomology. [Obs.]
Insecure (a.) 不安全的，有危險的；不牢靠的；不穩定的 Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
With sorrow and insecure apprehensions. -- Jer. Taylor.
Insecure (a.) Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss. -- Bp. Hurg.
The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and precarious. -- Mickle.
Insecure (a.) Not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure" [ant: secure].
Insecure (a.) Lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future" [syn: insecure, unsafe] [ant: secure].
Insecure (a.) Lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability" [ant: secure, unafraid, untroubled].
Insecure (a.) Not safe from attack [syn: insecure, unsafe].
Insecurely (adv.) In an insecure manner.
Insecurely (adv.) In a tentative and self-conscious manner; "she always acts very insecurely in the presence of her father" [ant: securely].
Insecurely (adv.) In a manner involving risk; "our positions here at the university are rather insecurely supported by grant money" [ant: securely].
Insecureness (n.) Insecurity.
Insecureness (n.) The state of being exposed to risk or anxiety [ant: secureness].
Insecurities (n. pl. ) of Insecurity.
Insecurity (n.) The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.
Insecurity (n.) The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence.
With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . unto arbitrary calculations. -- Sir T. Browne.
A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. -- Burke.
Insecution (n.) A following after; close pursuit. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Inseminate (v. t.) To sow seed into. [Obs.]
Inseminate (v. t.) To sow seed into; to impregnate.
Inseminate (v. t.) To implant in, as if sowing seed; as, to inseminate one's children with one's own prejudices; -- used mostly of ideas or attitudes.
Inseminate (v.) Place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds" [syn: inseminate, sow, sow in].
Inseminate (v.) Introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise].
Insemination (n.) A sowing. [Obs.]
Insemination (n.) The act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
Insemination (n.) The introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female.
Insensate (a.) Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. -- Wordsworth.
The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. -- Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.
Insensate (a.) Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: insentient, insensate] [ant: animate, sentient].
Insensate (a.) Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate].
Insense (v. t.) To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Insensibility (n.) 無感覺；無意識；感覺遲鈍；無感情；不在乎 The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
Insensibility (n.) Lack of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
Syn: Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor; apathy; impassiveness; indifference.
Insensibility (n.) A lack of sensibility [ant: aesthesia, esthesia, sensibility].
Insensibility (n.) Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility].
Insensible (a.) 昏迷的，不省人事的；無感覺的，麻木不仁的 [F] [（+to）]；無感情的，無動於衷的；冷淡的[（+to）]；沒有意識到的；不知道的 [F] [（+of/ to）]；不易被感覺到的；極緩慢的；【律】不可理解的；無意義的；【廢】愚蠢的；無知的 Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility ; unconscious. -- Milton.
Insensible (a.) Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with of or to.
Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Lost in their loves, insensible of shame. -- Dryden.
Insensible (a.) Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion.
Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm. -- Sir T. Browne.
They fall away, And languish with insensible decay. -- Dryden.
Insensible (a.) Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless. [Obs.]
If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed. -- Sir M. Hale.
Insensible (a.) Incapable of feeling a specific sensation or emotion; as, insensible to pity.
Syn: Imperceptible; imperceivable; dull; stupid; torpid; numb; unfeeling; apathetic; stoical; impassive; indifferent; unsusceptible; hard; callous.
Insensible (a.) Incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth" [ant: sensible, sensitive].
Insensible (a.) Unaware of or indifferent to; "insensible to the suffering around him" [syn: insensible(p), unaffected(p)].
Insensible (a.) Barely able to be perceived; "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change" [syn: indiscernible, insensible, undetectable].
Insensible (a.) Unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless" [syn: insensible, senseless].
Insensible (a.) In the language of pleading, that which is unintelligible is said to be insensible. Steph. Pl. 378.
Insensibleness (n.) Insensibility. -- Bp. Hall.
Insensibly (adv.) In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually.
The hills rise insensibly. -- Addison.
Insensibly (adv.) In a numb manner; without feeling; "I stared at him numbly" [syn: numbly, insensibly].
Insensitive (a.) 感覺遲鈍的 Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. -- Tillotson. -- Ruskin.
Insensitive (a.) Not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation" [ant: sensitive].
Insensitive (a.) Deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" [ant: sensitive].
Insensitive (a.) -Insensitively (adv.), -Insensitiveness (n.), -Insensitivity (n.), Showing that you do not know or care about the feelings of other people.
Insensitive (a.) Not responding to or caring about problems, changes, or needs.
Insensitive (a.) Not greatly affected by something.
Insensitive (a.) Not responsive or susceptible <insensitive to the demands of the public>.
Insensitive (a.) lacking feeling or tact <so insensitive as to laugh at someone in pain>.
Insensitive (a.) Not physically or chemically sensitive.
Insensitive (a.) Lacking feeling : not sensitive <He's insensitive to pain.>.
Insensitive (a.) Not caring or showing concern about the problems or feelings of others <an insensitive remark>.
Insensuous (a.) Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses.
That intermediate door Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form And form insensuous. -- Mrs. Browning.
Insentient (a.) Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient.
Syn: inanimate, insensate.
The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance. -- Reid.
But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Insentient (a.) Incapable of sensation..
Syn: insensate, insensible.
Inseparability (n.) 不能分離；不可分性 [U] The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness. -- Locke.
Inseparable (a.) 分不開的；不可分離的 [（+from）] Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined.
The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. -- Mure.
Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. -- D. Webster.
Inseparable (a.) (Gram.) Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-.
Inseparable (a.) Not capable of being separated; "inseparable pieces of rock."
Inseparableness (n.) The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. -- Bp. Burnet.
Inseparably (adv.) 不可分地；不能分離地；形影不離地 In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable. -- Bacon.
And cleaves through life inseparably close. -- Cowper.
Inseparably (adv.) Without possibility of separation; "these two are inseparably linked" [ant: separably].
Inseparate (a.) Not separate; together; united. -- Shak.
Inseparately (adv.) Inseparably. [Obs.] -- Cranmer.
Inserted (imp. & p. p.) of Insert.
Inserting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insert.
Insert (v. t.) 插入；嵌入 [（+in/ into/ between）]；把（人造衛星等）射入（軌道）[（+into）]；插（話等）；添寫 [（+in/ into/ between）]；刊登（廣告等）[（+in）]；（縫紉中）鑲，補[（+in/on）] To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.
These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Insert (n.) A folded section placed between the leaves of another publication.
Insert (n.) An artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted [syn: insert, inset].
Insert (n.) (Broadcasting) A local announcement inserted into a network program [syn: cut-in, insert].
Insert (n.) (Film) A still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film [syn: cut-in, insert].
Insert (v.) Put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text" [syn: insert, infix, enter, introduce].
Insert (v.) Introduce; "Insert your ticket here" [syn: insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce].
Insert (v.) Fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirttail in" [syn: tuck, insert].
Insert (v.) Insert casually; "She slipped in a reference to her own work" [syn: slip in, stick in, sneak in, insert].
Inserted (a.) (Bot.) Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. -- Gray.
Inserting (n.) A setting in.
Inserting (n.) Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments. [R.]
Insertion (n.) 插入；嵌入 [U]；插入物 [C] [（+into）]； （服裝上的）嵌飾，邊飾 [C]；（報紙等的）插入的廣告 [C]；【解】肌肉等的附著處 [C] The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.
Insertion (n.) The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx.
Insertion (n.) That which is set in or inserted, such as a word or passage in a composition, or a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric; as, there were numerous insertions and corrections to the first draft.
Insertion (n.) (Anat.) The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin.
Epigynous insertion (Bot.), The insertion of stamens upon the ovary.
Hypogynous insertion (Bot.), Insertion beneath the ovary.
Insertion (n.) A message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins" [syn: interpolation, insertion].
Insertion (n.) The act of putting one thing into another [syn: insertion, introduction, intromission].
Inserve (v. i.) To be of use to an end; to serve. [Obs.]
Inservient (a.) Conducive; instrumental. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Insession (n.) The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. "Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath." [R.] -- Holland.
Insession (n.) That in which one sits, as a bathing tub. [R.]
Insessions be bathing tubs half full. -- Holland.
Insessores (n. pl. ) of Insessor.
Insessor (n.) (Zool.) One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.
Insessores (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.
Insessorial (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.
Insessorial (a.) (Zool.) Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores.
Inset (v. t.) 嵌入，插入 To infix. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Inset (n.) That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.
Inset (n.) (Bookbinding) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as:
Inset (n.) (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut.
Inset (n.) (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.
Inset (n.) A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
Inset (n.) An artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted [syn: insert, inset].
Inset (n.) A piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment [syn: gusset, inset].
Inset (v.) Set or place in.
Inseverable (a.) Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. -- De Quincey.
Inshaded (a.) Marked with different shades. -- W. Browne.
Inshave (n.) (Mech.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Insheathe (v. t.) To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. -- Hughes.
Inshell (v. t.) To hide in a shell. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Inship (v. t.) To embark. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Inshore (a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.
Inshore (adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.
Inshrine (v. t.) See Enshrine.
Insiccation (n.) The act or process of drying in.
Inside (prep. or adv.) (prep.) 在……的裡面，在……內部；（時間）在……以內，少於 (adv.) 在裡面；往裡面；【英】【俚】在監牢裡；向監牢 Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.
Inside (a.) 裡面的，內側的；在屋裡的；內幕的，祕密的 Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.
Kissing with inside lip. -- Shak.
Inside (a.) Adapted to the interior.
Inside callipers (Mech.), Callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc.
Inside finish (Arch.), A general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering.
Inside track, The inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, contacts, etc., in competition.
Inside (n.) 內部，裡面[C]；（人行道，道路的）內側 [the S] The part within; interior or internal portion; content.
Looked he o' the inside of the paper? -- Shak.
Inside (n.) pl. The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.
Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely. -- Massinger.