Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-SCRIBE', v.t. [L. inscribo; in and scribo, to write, Eng. to scrape. See Scribe.]

1. To write on; to engrave on for perpetuity or duration; as, to inscribe a line or verse on a monument, on a column, or pillar.
2. To imprint on; as, to inscribe any thing on the mind or memory.
3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address, less formal than a dedication; as, to inscribe an ode or a gook to a prince.
4. To mark with letters, characters or words; as, to inscribe a stone with a name.
5. To draw a figure within another, so that all the angles of the figure inscribed touch the angles, sides or planes of the other figure. Johnson. Encyc.

IN-SCRIB'ED, pp.

Written on; engraved; marked; addressed.

IN-SCRIB'ER, n.

One who inscribes. Pownall.

IN-SCRIB'ING, ppr.

Writing on; engraving; marking; addressing.

IN-SCRIP'TION, n. [Fr. from L. inscriptio. See Inscribe.]

1. Something written or engraved to communicate knowledge to after ages; any character, word, line or sentence written or engraved on a solid substance for duration; as, inscriptions on monuments, called epitaphs, on pillars, &c. We do not call by this name, writings on paper or parchment.
2. A title.
3. An address or consignment of a book to a person, as a mark of respect, or an invitation of patronage. It is less formal than a dedication.

IN-SCRIP'TIVE, a.

Bearing inscription.

IN-SCROLL', v.t.

To write on a scroll. Shak.

IN-SCROLL'ED, pp.

Written on a scroll.

IN-SCROLL'ING, ppr.

Writing on a scroll.

IN-SCRU'TA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. inscrutabilis; in and scrutor, to search.]

1. Unsearchable; that can not be searched into and understood by inquiry or study. The designs of the emperor appear to be inscrutable.
2. That can not be penetrated, discovered or understood by human reason. The ways of Providence are often inscrutable, table. Mysteries are inscrutable.

IN-SCRU'TA-BLY, adv.

In a manner or degree not to be found out or understood. The moral government of an infinite being must often be inscrutably dark and mysterious.

IN-SCRUT-TA-BIL'I-TY, or IN-SCRU'TA-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being inscrutable.

IN-SCULP', v.t. [L. insculpo; in and sculpo, to engrave.]

To engrave; to carve. [Little used.] Shak.

IN-SCULP'TION, n.

Inscription. [Little used.] Tourneur.

IN-SCULP'TURE, n.

An engraving; sculpture. Shak. [See Sculpture, which is generally used.]

IN-SCULP'TUR-ED, a.

Engraved.

IN-SEAM', v.t. [in and seam.]

To impress or mark with seam or cicatrix. [Poetical.] Pope.

IN-SEAM'ED, pp.

Impressed with a seam.

IN-SEAM'ING, ppr.

Marking with a seam.

IN-SEARCH', v.t. [inserch'.]

To make search. [Not used.] Elyot.

IN-SEC'A-BLE, a. [L. insecabilis; in and seco, to cut.]

That can not be divided by a cutting instrument; indivisible. Encyc.

IN'SECT, a.

Small; mean; contemptible.

IN'SECT, n. [L. insecta, plur., from inseco, to cut in; in and seco, to cut. This name seems to have been originally given to certain small animals whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided. So in Greek, εντομα.]

1. In zoology, a small invertebral animal, breathing by lateral spiracles, and furnished with articulated extremities and movable antennæ. Most insects pass through several states or metamorphoses, as the egg, the larve, the pupe or chrysalis, and the imago or perfect insect. The class of insects, in the Linnæan system, is divided into seven orders, the last of which (Aptera) includes the Crustacea, which breathe by gills, and the Arachnides, which have no antennæ, now forming two distinct classes. Linnæus. Cuvier. The term insect has been applied, but improperly, to other small invertebral animals of the Linnæan class Vermes. Encyc.
2. Any thing small or contemptible. Thomson.

IN-SEC-TA'TOR, n. [L.]

A persecutor. [Little used.]

IN-SECT'ED, a.

Having the nature of an insect. Howell.