| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| indart | verb t. | To pierce, as with a dart. |
| indear | verb t. | See Endear. |
| indebt | verb t. | To bring into debt; to place under obligation; — chiefly used in the participle indebted. |
| indeed | adverb | In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; — used in a variety of sense. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so. (b) Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies. |
| indent | verb t. | To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper., To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp., To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant., To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention., To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores., To be cut, notched, or dented., To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag., To contract; to bargain or covenant., A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch., A stamp; an impression., A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt., A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army. |
| indian | adjective | Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies., Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk., Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like., A native or inhabitant of India., One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; — so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India. |
| indice | noun | Index; indication. |
| indict | verb t. | To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite., To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce., To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach. |
| indies | noun pl. | A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies. |
| indign | adjective | Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading. |
| indigo | noun | A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors., A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican., Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo. |
| indite | verb t. | To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt., To invite or ask., To indict; to accuse; to censure., To compose; to write, as a poem. |
| indium | noun | A rare metallic element, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence, its name. In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium. Symbol In. Atomic weight, 113.4. |
| indoin | noun | A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds. |
| indoor | adjective | Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work. |
| indris | noun | Alt. of Indri |
| induce | verb t. | To lead in; to introduce., To draw on; to overspread., To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence., To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure., To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state., To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; — the opposite of deduce. |
| induct | verb t. | To bring in; to introduce; to usher in., To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies. |
| indued | imp. & past participle | of Indue |
| indult | noun | Alt. of Indulto |