Insoluble (a.) Strong.
Insolubleness (n.) The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility.
Insolvable (a.) Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
Insolvable (a.) Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
Insolvable (a.) Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
Insolvencies (pl. ) of Insolvency
Insolvency (n.) The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency.
Insolvency (n.) Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate.
Insolvent (a.) Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.
Insolvent (a.) Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate.
Insolvent (a.) Relating to persons unable to pay their debts.
Insolvent (n.) One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.
Insomnia (n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.
Insomnious (a.) Restless; sleepless.
Insomnolence (n.) Sleeplessness.
Insomuch (adv.) So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch.
Insonorous (a.) Not clear or melodious.
Insooth (adv.) In sooth; truly.
Insouciance (n.) Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.
Insouciant (a.) Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned.
Insoul (v. t.) To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on.
Inspan (v. t. & i.) To yoke or harness, as oxen to a vehicle.
Inspected (imp. & p. p.) of Inspect
Inspecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inspect
Inspect (v. t.) To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.
Inspect (v. t.) To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.
Inspect (v. t.) Inspection.
Inspecttion (n.) The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation.
Inspecttion (n.) The act of overseeing; official examination or superintendence.
Inspective (a.) Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.
Inspector (n.) One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer.
Inspectorate (n.) Inspectorship.
Inspectorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
Inspectorship (n.) The office of an inspector.
Inspectorship (n.) The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
Inspectress (n.) A female inspector.
Insperse (v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.
Inspersion (n.) The act of sprinkling.
Inspeximus (n.) The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant.
Insphered (imp. & p. p.) of Insphere
Insphering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insphere
Insphere (v. t.) To place in, or as in, an orb a sphere. Cf. Ensphere.
Inspirable (a.) Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration.
Inspiration (n.) The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.
Inspiration (n.) The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
Inspiration (n.) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
Inspirational (a.) Pertaining to inspiration.
Inspirationist (n.) One who holds to inspiration.
Inspirator (n.) A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
Inspirtory (a.) Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles.
Inspire (v. t.) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Inspire (v. t.) To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
Inspire (v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
Inspire (v. t.) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
Inspire (v. t.) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue.
Inspired (imp. & p. p.) of Inspire
Inspiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inspire
Inspire (v. i.) To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire.
Inspire (v. i.) To breathe; to blow gently.
Inspired (a.) Breathed in; inhaled.
Inspired (a.) Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers.
Inspired (a.) Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; -- opposed to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures.
Inspirer (n.) One who, or that which, inspirer.
Inspiring (a.) Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.
Inspirited (imp. & p. p.) of Inspirit
Inspiriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inspirit
Inspirit (v. t.) To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.
Inspissated (imp. & p. p.) of Inspissate
Inspissating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inspissate
Inspissate (v. t.) To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.
Inspissate (a.) Thick or thickened; inspissated.
Inspissation (n.) The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
Instabilities (pl. ) of Instability
Instability (n.) The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.
Instability (n.) Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc.
Instable (a.) Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.
Instableness (n.) Instability; unstableness.
Installed (imp. & p. p.) of Install
Installing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Install
Install (v. t.) To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
Install (v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.
Installation (n.) The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish.
Installation (n.) The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
Installment (n.) The act of installing; installation.
Installment (n.) The seat in which one is placed.
Installment (n.) A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated.
Instamp (v. t.) See Enstamp.
Instance (n.) The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Instance (n.) That which is instant or urgent; motive.
Instance (n.) Occasion; order of occurrence.
Instance (n.) That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
Instance (n.) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Instanced (imp. & p. p.) of Instance
Instancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instance
Instance (v. t.) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
Instance (v. i.) To give an example.
Instancy (n.) Instance; urgency.
Instant (a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
Instant (a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
Instant (a.) Present; current.