Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-SECT'ILE, a.

Having the nature of insects. Bacon.

IN-SEC'TION, n.

An insect. [Not used.] Wolton.

IN-SEC'TION, n.

A cutting in; incisure; incision.

IN-SEC-TIV'O-RA, n.

Animals that feed on insects. Bell.

IN-SEC-TIV'O-ROUS, a. [insect and L. voro, to eat.]

Feeding or subsisting on insects. Many winged animals are insectivorous. Dict. Nat. Hist.

IN-SEC-TOL'O-GER, n. [insect and Gr. λογος.]

One who studies insects. [Not in use. See Entomologist.]

IN-SE-CURE', a. [in and secure.]

1. Not secure; not safe; not confident of safety; used of persons. No man can be quiet, when he feels insecure.
2. Not safe; not effectually guarded or protected; unsafe; exposed to danger or loss. Goods on the ocean are insecure. Hay and grain unhoused are insecure. Debts are often insecure.

IN-SE-CURE'LY, adv.

Without security or safety; without certainty. Chesterfield.

IN-SE-CUR'I-TY, n. [in and security.]

1. Want of safety, or want of confidence in safety. Seamen in a tempest must be conscious of their insecurity.
2. Uncertainty. With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects to unseen causes.
3. Want of safety; danger; hazard; exposure to destruction or loss; applied to things; as, the insecurity of a building exposed to fire; the insecurity of a debt.

IN-SE-CU'TION, n. [L. insecutio.]

Pursuit. Chapman.

IN-SEM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. insemino.]

To sow. [Little used.]

IN-SEM-IN-A'TION, n.

The act of sowing. [Little used.

IN-SENS'ATE, a. [Fr. insensé; L. in and sensus, sense.]

Destitute of sense; stupid; foolish; wanting sensibility. Milton. Hammond.

IN-SEN-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from insensible.]

1. Want of sensibility, or the power of feeling or perceiving. A frozen limb is in a state of insensibility, as is an animal body after death.
2. Want of the power to be moved or affected; want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion and passion. Not to be moved at the distresses of others denotes an insensibility extremely unnatural.
3. Dullness; stupidity; torpor.

IN-SENS'I-BLE, a. [Fr. and Sp. from L. in and sensus, sense, sentio, to feel.]

1. Imperceptible; that can not be felt or perceived. The motion of the earth is insensible to the eye. A plant grows, and the body decays by insensible degrees. The humors of the body are evacuated by insensible perspiration. The dense and bright light of the circle will obscure the rare and weak light of these dark colors round about it, and render them almost insensible. Newton.
2. Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting corporeal sensibility. An injury to the spine often renders the inferior parts of the body insensible.
3. Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; wanting tenderness. To be insensible to the sufferings of our fellow men is inhuman. To be insensible of danger is not always evidence of courage.
4. Dull; stupid; torpid.
5. Void of sense or meaning; as, insensible words.

IN-SENS'I-BLE-NESS, n.

Inability to perceive; want of sensibility. [See Insensibility, which is generally used.]

IN-SENS'I-BLY, adv.

1. Imperceptibly; in a manner not to be felt or perceived by the senses. The hills rise insensibly. Addison.
2. By slow degrees; gradually. Men often slide insensibly into vicious habits.

IN-SENT'IENT, a. [in and sentient.]

Not having perception or the power of perception. Reid.

IN-SEP'A-RA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. inseparabilis; in and separabilis, separo, to separate.]

That can not be separated or disjoined; not to be parted. There is an inseparable connection between vice and suffering or punishment.

IN-SEP'A-RA-BLE-NESS, or IN-SEP-A-RA-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being inseparable, or incapable of disjunction. [The latter word is rarely used.] Locke.

IN-SEP'A-RA-BLY, adv.

In a manner that prevents separation; with indissoluble union. Bacon. Temple.

IN-SEP'A-RATE, a.

Not separate. [Not used.]

IN-SEP'A-RATE-LY, adv.

So as not to be separated. [Not used.] Cranmer.

IN-SERT', v.t. [Fr. inserer; L. insero, insertum; in and sero, to thrust.]

Literally, to thrust in; hence, to set in or among; as, to insert a cion in a stock; to insert a letter, word or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement or other writing in a paper.

IN-SERT'ED, pp.

Set in or among.