Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-GRA'TIA-TED, pp.

Commended one's self to another's favor.

IN-GRA'TIA-TING, n.

The act of commending one's self to another's favor.

IN-GRA'TIA-TING, ppr.

Commending one's self to the favor of another.

IN-GRAT'I-TUDE, n. [Fr.; in and gratitude.]

1. Want of gratitude or sentiments of kindness for favors received; insensibility to favors, and want of a disposition to repay them; unthankfulness. No man will own himself guilty of ingratitude. Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. – L'Estrange.
2. Retribution of evil for good. Nor was it with ingratitude returned. – Dryden.

IN-GRAVE', v.t.

To bury. [Not used.]

IN-GRAV'I-DATE, v.t. [L. gravidus.]

To impregnate. – Fuller.

IN-GRAV'I-DA-TED, pp.

Impregnated.

IN-GRAV'I-DA-TING, ppr.

Impregnating.

IN-GRAV-I-DA'TION, n.

The state of being pregnant.

IN-GREAT', v.t.

To make great. [Not in use.] – Fotherby.

IN-GRE'DI-ENT, n. [Fr. from L. ingrediens, entering into; ingredior; in and gradior. See Grade.]

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any compound or mixture. It is particularly applied to the simples in medicinal compositions, but admits of a very general application. We say, an ointment or a decoction is composed of certain ingredients; and Addison wondered that learning was not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune.

IN'GRESS, n. [L. ingressus, ingredior, supra.]

1. Entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs. It is particularly applied to the entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, &c.
2. Power of entrance; means of entering. All ingress was prohibited.

IN-GRES'SION, n. [Fr. from L. ingressio, ingredior.]

The act of entering; entrance. Digby.

IN-GU-A'NA, n.

A species of lizard.

IN'GUIN-AL, a. [from L. inguen, the groin.]

Pertaining to the groin; as, an inguinal tumor.

IN-GULF', v.t. [in and gulf.]

1. To swallow up in a vast deep, gulf or whirlpool. Milton.
2. To cast into a gulf. Hayward.

IN-GULF'ED, pp.

Swallowed up in a gulf or vast deep; cast into a gulf.

IN-GULF'ING, ppr.

Swallowing up in a gulf, whirlpool or vast deep.

IN-GULF'MENT, n.

A swallowing up in a gulf or abyss.

IN-GUR'GI-TATE, v.i.

To drink largely; to swill.

IN-GUR'GI-TATE, v.t. [L. ingurgito; in and gurges, a gulf.]

To swallow greedily or in great quantity. – Dict.

IN-GUR'GI-TA-TED, pp.

Swallowed greedily.

IN-GUR-GI-TA'TION, n.

The act of swallowing greedily, or in great quantity. – Darwin.

IN-GUST'A-BLE, a. [L. in and gusto, to taste.]

That can not be tasted. [Little used.] – Brown.

IN-HAB'ILE, a. [Fr. from L. inhabilis; in and habilis, apt, fit.]

1. Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; as, inhabile matter. – Encyc.
2. Unskilled; unready; unqualified; used of persons. [Little used. See Unable.]