Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-DUS'TRI-OUS, a. [L. industrius, from industria.]

1. Diligent in business or study; constantly, regularly or habitually occupied in business; assiduous; opposed to slothful and idle. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to the established government. Temple.
2. Diligent in a particular pursuit, or to a particular end; opposed to remiss or slack; as, industrious to accomplish a journey, or to reconcile contending parties.
3. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; as, an industrious life.
4. Careful; assiduous; as, the industrious application of knowing men. Watts.

IN-DUS'TRI-OUS-LY, adv.

1. With habitual diligence; with steady application of the powers of body or of mind.
2. Diligently; assiduously; with care; applied to a particular purpose. He attempted industriously to make peace. He industriously concealed his name.

IN'DUS-TRY, n. [L. industria; Fr. industrie. This is a compound word, and the root probably of the Class Ds.]

Habitual diligence in any employment, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; opposed to sloth and idleness. We are directed to take lessons of industry from the bee. Industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

IN-DWELL'ER, n.

An inhabitant. Spenser.

IN-DWELL'ING, a. [in and dwelling.]

Dwelling within; remaining in the heart, even after it is renewed; as, indwelling sin. Panoplist. Macknight. Milner.

IN-DWELL'ING, n.

Residence within, or in the heart or soul.

IN-E'BRI-ANT, a. [See Inebriate.]

Intoxicating.

IN-E'BRI-ANT, n.

Any thing that intoxicates, as opium. Encyc.

IN-E'BRI-ATE, a.

A habitual drunkard. Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety terminated by much pale urine, profuse sweats, &.c. Darwin.

IN-E'BRI-ATE, v.i.

To be or become intoxicated. Bacon.

IN-E'BRI-ATE, v.t. [L. inebrio, inebriatus; in and ebrio, to intoxicate; ebrius, soaked, drenched, drunken. The Latin ebrius is contractcd from ebrigus or ebregus, as appears from the Spanish embriagar, to intoxicate; embriago, inebriated; It. briaco, drunk; imbriacare, imbriacarsi. The sense is to wash or drench, and it is evidently from the common root of the Gr. βρεχω, to water or irrigate. See Rain.]

1. To make drunk; to intoxicate. Sandys.
2. To disorder the senses; to stupefy, or to make furious or frantic; to produce effects like those of liquor, which are various in different constitutions.

IN-E'BRI-A-TED, pp.

Intoxicated.

IN-E'BRI-A-TING, a.

Having intoxicating qualities; tending to intoxicate; as, inebriating liquors.

IN-E'BRI-A-TING, ppr.

Making drunk; intoxicating.

IN-E-BRI-A'TION, n.

Drunkenness; intoxication. Brown.

IN-E-BRI'E-TY, n.

Drunkenness; intoxication. Darwin.

IN-ED'IT-ED, a. [in and edited.]

Unpublished. Warton.

IN-EF-FA-BIL'I-TY, n.

Unspeakableness.

IN-EF'FA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. ineffabilis; in and effabilis, from effor, to speak.]

Unspeakable; unutterable; that can not be expressed in words; usually in a good sense; as, the ineffable joys of heaven; the ineffable glories of the Deity.

IN-EF'FA-BLE-NESS, n.

Unspeakableness; quality of being unutterable. Scott.

IN-EF'FA-BLY, adv.

Unspeakably; in a manner not to be expressed in words.

IN-EF-FACE'A-BLE, a.

That can not be effaced.

IN-EF-FACE'A-BLY, adv.

So as not to be effaceable.

IN-EF-FECT'IVE, a. [in and effective.]

1. Not effective; not producing any effect, or the effect intended; inefficient; useless. The word of God, without the spirit, is a dead and ineffective letter. Taylor.
2. Not able; not competent to the service intended; as, ineffective troops; ineffective force.
3. Producing no effect.

IN-EF-FECT'IVE-LY, adv.

Without effect; inefficiently.