Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-OB-TRU'SIVE, a.

Not obtrusive. Coleridge.

IN-OB-TRU'SIVE-LY, adv.

Unobtrusively.

IN-OB-TRU'SIVE-NESS, a.

A quality of being not obtrusive.

IN-OC'CU-PA-TION, n.

Want of occupation. C. B. Brown.

IN-OC'U-LA-BLE, a.

1. That may be inoculated.
2. That may communicate disease by inoculation. Hall.

IN-OC'U-LATE, v.i.

To propagate by budding; to practice inoculation. The time to inoculate is when the buds are formed at the extremities of the same year's shoot, indicating that the spring growth for that season is complete.

IN-OC'U-LATE, v.t. [L. inoculo; in and oculos, the eye.]

1. To bud; to insert the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant, for the purpose of growth on the new stock. All sorts of stone fruit, apples, pears, &c. may be inoculated. We inoculate the stock with a foreign bud.
2. To communicate a disease to a person by inserting infectious matter in his skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the matter of small-pox or cow-pox. When the latter disease is communicated, it is called vaccination.

IN-OC'U-LA-TED, pp.

1. Budded; as, an inoculated stock.
2. Inserted in another stock, as a bud.
3. Infected by inoculation with a particular disease.

IN-OC'U-LA-TING, ppr.

1. Budding; propagating by inserting a bud on another stock.
2. Infecting by inoculation.

IN-OC-U-LA'TION, n. [L. inoculatio.]

1. The act or practice of inserting buds of one plant under the bark of another for propagation.
2. The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. This practice is limited chiefly to the communication of the small-pox, and of the cow-pox, which is intended as a substitute for it. [See Vaccination.]

IN-OC'U-LA-TOR, n.

A person who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.

IN-O'DI-ATE, v.t. [L. in and odium.]

To make hateful. [Not in use.] South.

IN-O'DOR-ATE, a. [L. in and odoratus.]

Having no scent or odor. Bacon.

IN-O'DOR-OUS, a. [L. inodorus; in and odor.]

Wanting scent; having no smell. The white of an egg is an inodorous liquor. Arbuthnot.

IN-OF-FENS'IVE, a. [in and offensive.]

1. Giving no offense or provocation; as, an inoffensive man; an inoffensive answer.
2. Giving no uneasiness or disturbance; as, an inoffensive appearance or sight.
3. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Thy inoffensive satires never bite. Dryden.
4. Not obstructing; presenting no hinderance. From hence a passage broad, / Smooth, easy, inoffensive, down to hell. Milton. [Unusual.]

IN-OF-FENS'IVE-LY, adv.

Without giving offense; without harm; in a manner not to offend.

IN-OF-FENS'IVE-NESS, n.

Harmlessness; the quality of being not offensive either to the senses or to the mind.

IN-OF-FI'CIAL, a. [in and official.]

Not official; not proceeding from the proper officer; not clothed with the usual forms of authority, or not done in an official character; as, an inofficial communication; inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering.

IN-OF-FI'CIAL-LY, adv.

Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.

IN-OF-FI'CIOUS, a. [in and officious.]

1. Unkind; regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty. Suggesting that the parent had lost the use of his reason, when he made the inofficious testament. Blackstone. Let not a father hope to excuse an inofficious disposition of his fortune, by alledging that every man may do what he will with his own. Paley.
2. Unfit for an office. Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.
3. Not civil or attentive. B. Jonson.

IN-OF-FI'CIOUS-LY, adv.

Not officiously.

IN-OP-ER-A'TION, n.

Agency; influence; production of effects. [Not used.] Bp. Hall.

IN-OP'ER-A-TIVE, a. [in and operative.]

Not operative; not active; having no operation; producing no effect; as, laws rendered inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies.

IN-OP-POR-TUNE', a. [L. inopportunus. See Opportune.]

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable in time.

IN-OP-POR-TUNE'LY, adv.

Unseasonably; at an inconvenient time.