Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CARN'A-TING, ppr.

Investing with flesh.

IN-CARN-A'TION, n.

1. The act of clothing with flesh.
2. The act of assuming flesh, or of taking a human body and the nature of man; as, the incarnation of the Son of God.
3. In surgery, the process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh. Encyc.

IN-CARN'A-TIVE, a. [Fr. incarnatif.]

Causing new flesh to grow; healing. Encyc.

IN-CARN'A-TIVE, n.

A medicine that tends to promote the growth of new flesh, and assist nature in the healing of wounds. Encyc.

IN-CASE', v.t. [in and case.]

1. To inclose in a case.
2. To inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

IN-CAS'ED, pp.

Inclosed as in a case, sheath or box.

IN-CASE'MENT, n.

An inclosing with a casement.

IN-CAS'ING, ppr.

Inclosing as in a case.

IN-CASK', v.t.

To put into a cask. Sherwood.

IN-CAS'TEL-LA-TED, a.

Confined or inclosed in a castle.

IN-CAT-E-NA'TION, n. [L. catena, a chain.]

The act of linking together. Goldsmith.

IN-CAU'TIOUS, a. [in and cautious.]

Not cautious; unwary; not circumspect; heedless; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; as, incautious youth.

IN-CAU'TIOUS-LY, adv.

Unwarily; heedlessly; without due circumspection.

IN-CAU'TIOUS-NESS, n.

Want of caution; unwariness; want of foresight.

IN'CA-VA-TED, a. [L. in and cavo, to make hollow.]

Made hollow; bent round or in.

IN-CA-VA'TION, n.

1. The act of making hollow.
2. A hollow made.

IN-CEND', v.t. [L. incendo.]

To inflame; to excite. [Little used.] Marston.

IN-CEND'I-A-RISM, n.

The act or practice of maliciously setting fire to buildings.

IN-CEND'I-A-RY, a.

1. Pertaining to the malicious burning of a dwelling; as, an incendiary purpose.
2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition or quarrel.

IN-CEND'I-A-RY, n. [L. incendiarius, from incendo, to burn; in and candeo, to shine, or be on fire.]

1. A person who maliciously sets fire to another man's dwelling house, or to any outhouse, being parcel of the same, as a barn or stable; one who is guilty of arson.
2. Any person who sets fire to a building.
3. A person who excites or inflames faction; and promotes quarrels. Several cities of Greece drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley. Incendiaries of figure and distinction, who are the inventors and publishers of gross falsehoods, can not be regarded but with the utmost detestation. Addison.
4. He or that which excites.

IN-CEND'I-OUS, a.

Promoting faction or contention. Bacon.

IN-CEND'I-OUS-LY, adv.

In a manner tending to promote contention.

IN'CENSE, n. [in'cens; L. incensum, burnt, from incendo, to burn; It. incenso; Fr. encens.]

1. Perfume exhaled by fire; the odors of spices and gums, burnt in religious rites, or as an offering to some deity. A thick cloud of incense went up. Ezek. viii.
2. The materials burnt for making perfumes. The incense used in the Jewish offerings was a mixture of sweet spices, stacte, onycha, galbanum, and the gum of the frankincense tree. Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein and put incense thereon. Lev. x.
3. Acceptable prayers and praises. Mal. i.
4. In the Materia Medica, a dry resinous substance known by the name of thus and olibanum. Encyc.

IN'CENSE, v.t. [in'cens.]

To perfume with incense. In the Romish church, it is the deacon's office to incense the officiating priest or prelate, and the choir. Encyc.

IN-CENSE', v.t. [incens'.]

To enkindle or inflame to violent anger; to excite angry passions; to provoke; to irritate; to exasperate; to heat; to fire. It expresses less than enrage. How could my pious son thy power incense? Dryden.