Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-FU'SION, n. [s as z.]

1. The act of pouring in or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.
2. Suggestion; whisper. His folly and his wisdom are of his own growth, not the echo or infusion of other men. Swift.
3. In pharmacy, the process of steeping in liquor, an operation by which the medicinal qualities of plants may be extracted by a liquor without boiling. Encyc.
4. The liquor in which plants are steeped, and which is impregnated with their virtues or qualities. Coxe.

IN-FU'SIVE, a.

Having the power of infusion. Thomson.

IN-FU-SO'RI-A, n. [L.]

Minute and usually microscopic gelatinous animals, inhabiting water and various other liquors.

IN-FU'SO-RY, a.

Relating to the Infusoria. This word is used also as a noun.

ING, n.

in Saxon, signifies a pasture or meadow, Goth. winga. [See English.]

IN-GAN-NA'TION, n. [It. ingannare, to cheat.]

Cheat; fraud. [Not used.]

IN'GATE, n. [in and gate.]

Entrance; passage in. [Obs.] Spenser.

IN-GATH'ER-ING, n. [in and gathering.]

The act or business of collecting and securing the fruits of the earth; harvest; as, the feast of ingathering. – Ex. xxiii.

IN-GEL'A-BLE, a. [in and gelable.]

That can not be congealed.

IN-GEM'IN-ATE, a. [L. ingeminatus.]

Redoubled. Taylor.

IN-GEM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. ingemino; in and gemino.]

To double or repeat. – Sandys.

IN-GEM'IN-A-TED, pp.

Doubled.

IN-GEM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

Doubling.

IN-GEM-IN-A'TION, a.

Repetition; reduplication. – Walsall.

IN-GEN'DER, v. [See ENGENDER.]

IN-GEN-ER-A-BIL'I-TY, n. [infra.]

Incapacity of being engendered.

IN-GEN'ER-A-BLE, a. [in and generate.]

That can not be engendered or produced. – Boyle.

IN-GEN'ER-ATE, a.

Generated within; inborn; innate; inbred; as, ingenerate powers of body. – Wotton.

IN-GEN'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. ingenero; in and genero, to generate.]

To generate or produce within. – Fellows.

IN-GEN'ER-A-TED, pp.

Produced within. Noble habits ingenerated in the soul. – Hale.

IN-GEN'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Generating or producing within.

IN-GEN'I-OUS, a. [L. ingenuus.]

1. Open; frank; fair; candid; free from reserve, disguise, equivocation or dissimulation; used of persons or things. We speak of an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration or confession.
2. Noble; generous; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal; ingenuous detestation of falsehood. – Locke.
3. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; as, ingenuous blood or birth.

IN-GE'NI-OUS, a. [L. ingeniosus, from ingenium; in and genius, geno, gigno, to beget, Gr. γεινομαι.]

1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; hence, skillful or prompt to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations of ideas; as, an ingenious author; an ingenious mechanic. The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves. – Temple.
2. Proceeding from genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure or mechanism; as, an ingenious performance of any kind; an ingenious scheme or plan; an ingenious model or machine; ingenious fabric; ingenious contrivance.
3. Witty; well formed; well adapted; as, an ingenious reply.
4. Mental; intellectual. [Not used.] Shak.

IN-GE'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

With ingenuity; with readiness in contrivance; with skill.

IN-GE'NI-OUS-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being ingenious or prompt in invention; ingenuity; used of persons.
2. Curiousness of design or mechanism; used of things.