Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TU'I-TIVE-LY, adv.

By immediate perception; without reasoning; as, to perceive truth intuitively.

IN-TU-MESCE', v.i. [intumes'; L. intumesco; in and tumeo, to swell.]

To swell; to enlarge or expand with heat. In a higher heat it intumesces and melts into a yellowish black mass. Kirwan.

IN-TU-MES'CENCE, n. [supra.]

1. The action of swelling.
2. A swell; a swelling with bubbles; a rising and enlarging; a tumid state. Woodward.

IN-TU'MU-LA-TED, pp.

Not buried.

IN-TUR-GES'CENCE, n. [L. in and turgesco, to swell.]

A swelling; the action of swelling or state of being swelled. Brown.

IN-TUSE', n. [L. intusus.]

A bruise. [Not in use.] Spenser.

IN-TUS-SUS-CEP'TION, n. [L. intus and susceptus.]

The reception of one part within another; applied to the reception of a contracted part into a part not contracted.

IN-TWINE', v.t. [in and twine.]

To twine or twist together; to wreath; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.

IN-TWIN'ED, pp.

Twisted together.

IN-TWIN'ING, ppr.

Wreathing together.

IN-TWIST', v.t. [in and twist.]

To twist together; to interweave. Parkhurst.

IN-TWIST'ED, pp.

Twisted together.

IN-TWIST'ING, ppr.

Twisting together.

IN'U-LIN, n.

A peculiar vegetable principle extracted from the Inula helenium, or elecampane. Ure.

IN-UM'BRATE, v.t. [L. inumbro.]

To shade.

IN-UM'BRA-TED, pp.

Shaded.

IN-UNC'TION, n. [L. inunctus, inungo; in and ungo, to anoint.]

The action of anointing; unction. Ray.

IN-UNC-TU-OS'I-TY, n. [L. in and unctus, or Eng. unctuous.]

The want of unctuosity; destitution of greasiness or oiliness which is perceptible to the touch; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

IN-UN'DANT, a. [L. inundans, infra.]

Overflowing. Shenstone.

IN-UN'DATE, v.t. [L. inundo, inundatus; in and unda, a wave, or its root.]

1. To overflow; to deluge; to spread over with a fluid. The low lands along the Mississippi are inundated almost every spring.
2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as the country was once inundated with bills of credit. The presses inundate the country with papers.

IN-UN'DA-TED, pp.

Overflowed; spread over with a fluid; copiously supplied.

IN-UN'DA-TING, ppr.

Overflowing; deluging; spreading over.

IN-UN-DA'TION, n. [L. inundatio.]

1. An overflow of water or other fluid; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over low grounds. Holland has frequently suffered immensely by inundations of the sea. The Delta in Egypt is annually enriched by the inundation of the Nile.
2. An overspreading of any kind; an overflowing or superfluous abundance.

IN-UN-DER-STAND'ING, a.

Void of understanding. [A bad word and not used.] Pearson.

IN-UR-BANE'LY, adv.

Without urbanity.