Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-GEN'ITE, a. [L. ingenitus; in and genitus, born.]

Innate; inborn; inbred; native; ingenerate. South.

IN-GE-NU'I-TY, n. [Fr. ingenuité.]

1. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in combining ideas, or in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill; used of persons. How many machines for saving labor, has the ingenuity of men devised and constructed.
2. Curiousness in design, the effect of ingenuity; as, the ingenuity of a plan or of mechanism.
3. Openness of heart; fairness; candor. [This sense of the word was formerly common, and is found in good authors down to the age of Locke, and even later; but it is now wholly obsolete. In lieu of it, ingenuousness is used.]

IN-GEN'U-OUS-LY, adv.

Openly; fairly; candidly; without reserve or dissimulation. – Dryden.

IN-GEN'U-OUS-NESS, n.

1. Openness of heart; frankness; fairness; freedom from reserve or dissimulation; as, to confess our faults with ingenuousness.
2. Fairness; candidness; as, the ingenuousness of a confession.

IN'GE-NY, n.

Wit; ingenuity. [Obs.] – Bacon.

IN-GEST', v.t. [L. ingestus, from ingero; in and gero, to bear.]

To throw into the stomach. [Little used.] – Brown.

IN-GES'TION, n.

The act of throwing into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food. Harvey.

IN'GLE, n. [Qu. L. igniculus, ignis.]

1. Flame; blaze. [Not in use.] – Ray.
2. In Scottish, a fire, or fireplace. – Burns.

IN-GLO'RI-OUS, a. [L. inglorius; in and gloria.]

1. Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame or celebrity; as, an inglorious life of ease.
2. Shameful; disgraceful. He charged his troops with inglorious flight.

IN-GLO'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

With want of glory; dishonorably; with shame.

IN-GLO'RI-OUS-NESS, n.

State of being inglorious, or without celebrity.

IN'GOT, n. [Fr. lingot. Qu. L. lingua.]

A mass or wedge of gold or silver cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought metal. – Encyc.

IN-GRAFT', v.t. [in and graff. The original word is ingraff or graff, but it is corrupted beyond recovery.]

1. To insert a cion of one tree or plant into another for propagation; as, to ingraft the cion of an apple-tree on a pear-tree, as its stock; to ingraft a peach on a plum.
2. To propagate by insition. May.
3. To plant or introduce something foreign into that which is native, for the purpose of propagation. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name / Upon our stock. Dryden.
4. To set or fix deep and firm. Ingrafted love he bears to Cesar. Shak.

IN-GRAFT'ED, pp.

Inserted into a stock for growth and propagation; introduced into a native stock; set or fixed deep.

IN-GRAFT'ING, ppr.

Inserting, as cions in stocks; introducing and inserting on a native stock what is foreign; fixing deep.

IN-GRAFT'MENT, n.

1. The act of ingrafting.
2. The thing ingrafted.

IN'GRAIN, v.t. [in and grain.]

To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.

IN'GRAIN-ED, pp.

Dyed in the grain or in the raw material; as, ingrained carpets.

IN'GRAIN-ING, ppr.

Dyeing in the raw material.

IN-GRAP'PLED, a.

Grappled; seized on; entwined. Drayton.

IN'GRATE, or IN-GRATE'FUL, a. [L. ingratus; in and gratus; Fr. ingrat.]

1. Ungrateful; unthankful; not having feelings of kindness for a favor received. – Milton. Pope.
2. Unpleasing to the sense. He gives no ingrateful food. – Milton.

IN'GRATE, n. [Fr. ingrat.]

An ungrateful person.

IN-GRATE'FUL-LY, adv.

Ungratefully.

IN-GRATE'FUL-NESS, n.

Ungratefulness.

IN-GRA'TIATE, v.t. [ingra'shate; It. ingrazianarsi; L. in and gratia, favor.]

1. To commend one's self to another's good will, confidence or kindness. It is always used as a reciprocal verb, and followed by with, before the person whose favor is sought. Ministers and courtiers ingratiate themselves with their sovereign. Demagogues ingratiate themselves with the populace.
2. To recommend; to render easy; used of things. – Hammond.