Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN'DI-GENT-LY, adv.

In an indigent, destitute manner.

IN-DI-GEST', n.

A crude mass. [Not used.] Shak.

IN-DI-GEST'ED, a. [in and digested; L. indigestus.]

1. Not digested; not concocted in the stomach; not changed or prepared for nourishing the body; undigested; crude.
2. Not separated into distinct classes or orders, or into proper form; not regularly disposed and arranged. Chaos is represented as a rude or indigested mass.
3. Not methodized; not reduced to due form; crude; as, an indigested scheme.
4. Not prepared by heat.
5. Not brought to suppuration, as the contents of an abscess or boil; as, an indigested wound. Wiseman.

IN-DI-GEST'I-BLE, a. [in and digestible.]

1. Not digestible; not easily converted into chyme, or prepared in the stomach for nourishing the body. Arbuthnot.
2. Not to be received or patiently endured.

IN-DI-GEST'I-BLY, adv.

Not digestibly.

IN-DI-GES'TION, n. [in and digestion.]

Want of due coction in the stomach; a failure of that change in food which prepares it for nutriment; crudity. Encyc. As a disease, dyspepsy; that state of the stomach, in which it is incapable of performing its natural healthy functions.

IN-DIG'I-TATE, v.i.

To communicate ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers.

IN-DIG'IT-ATE, v.t.

To point out with the finger. Brown.

IN-DIG'I-TA-TING, ppr.

Showing, directing or computing by the fingers.

IN-DIG-IT-A'TION, n.

The act of pointing out with the finger. More.

IN-DIGN', a. [indi'ne; L. indignus.]

Unworthy; disgraceful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

IN-DIG'NANCE, a.

Indignation. [Not in use.] Spenser.

IN-DIG'NANT, a. [L. indignans, from indignor, to disdain; in and dignor, dignus.]

Affected at once with anger and disdain; feeling the mingled emotions of wrath and scorn or contempt, as when a person is exasperated at one despised, or by a mean action, or by the charge of a dishonorable act. Goliath was indignant at the challenge of David. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries / To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

IN-DIG'NANT-LY, adv.

In an indignant manner.

IN-DIG-NA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. indignatio.]

1. Anger or extreme anger, mingled with contempt, disgust or abhorrence. When Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. Esth. v.
2. The anger of a superior; extreme anger; particularly, the wrath of God against sinful men for their ingratitude and rebellion. 2 Kings iii.
3. The effects of anger; the dreadful effects of God's wrath; terrible judgments. Is. xxvi.
4. Holy displeasure at one's self for sin. 2 Cor. vii.

IN-DIG'NI-FY, v.t.

To treat disdainfully. [Not used.] Spenser.

IN-DIG'NI-TY, n. [L. indignitas.]

Unmerited, contemptuous conduct toward another; any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. Contemptuous words respecting one, or foul language in the presence of persons of character and delicacy, and indecent behavior, are indignities. Christ on the cross was treated with the foulest indignity.

IN-DIGN'LY, adv. [indi'nely.]

Unworthily. [Obs.] Hall.

IN'DI-GO, a. [L. indicum, from India; Fr. It. and Sp. indigo.]

A substance or dye, prepared from the leaves and stalks of the indigo plant, which are steeped in water till the pulp is extracted, when the liquor is drawn off and churned or agitated, till the dye begins to granulate. The flakes are then left to settle; the liquor is again drawn off, and the indigo is drained in bags and dried in boxes. It is used for dyeing blue. Edwards, W. Ind.

IN'DI-GO-LITE, n.

Blue tourmalin.

IN-DI-GOM'E-TER, n.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of indigo. Ure.

IN'DI-GO-PLANT, n.

Several species of the genus Indigo-fera, from which is prepared indigo. They are natives of Asia, Africa and America, and are called by the native Americans, anil. The calyx is patent; the carina of the corol is furnished with a subulate, patulous spur on each side; the legume is linear. Several species are cultivated for making indigo, of which the most important are the I. tinctoria, or common indigo-plant, the I. anil, a larger species, and the I. disperma, which furnishes the Guatimala indigo. Encyc. Miller. Edin. Encyc.

IN-DI-GOT'IC, a.

Indigotic acid is obtained by boiling indigo in nitric acid, diluted with an equal weight of water.

IN-DIL'A-TO-RY, a. [in and dilatory.]

Not dilatory or slow. Cornwallis.

IN-DIL'I-GENCE, a. [in and diligence.]

Want of diligence; slothfulness. B. Jonson.