| ingathering | The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. "Thou shalt keep . . . The feast of ingathering." (Ex. Xxii. 16) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ingena | <zoology> The gorilla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingenuous | 1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth. 2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; uprigth; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. "If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty." (Locke) 3. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; sa, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. "Sensible in myself . . . What a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve." (Fuller) 4. Ingenious. Synonym: Open, frank, unreserved, artless, plain, sincere, candid, fair, noble, generous. Ingenuous, Open, Frank. One who is open speaks out at once what is uppermost in his mind; one who is frank does it from a natural boldness, or dislike of self-restraint; one who is ingenuous is actuated by a native simplicity and artlessness, which make him willing to confess faults, and make known his sentiments without reserve. See Candid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingenuousness | 1. The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness. 2. Ingenuity. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingest | To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. Origin: L. Ingenium, p. P. Of ingerere to put in; pref. In- in + gerere to bear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingesta | <physiology> That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; opposed to egesta. Origin: NL. See Ingest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingestion | The act of taking food, medicines, etc., into the body, by mouth. (18 Nov 1997) |
| ingestive | Relating to ingestion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inghalla | <zoology> The reedbuck of South Africa. Alternative forms: ingali. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingle | A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. Origin: Written also engle, enghle: cf. Gael. & Ir. Aingeal an angel. Cf. Engle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingluvial | <ornithology> Of or pertaining to the indulges or crop of birds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingluvies | <ornithology> The crop, or craw, of birds. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingraft | 1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. "This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock." (Dryden) "A custom . . . Ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome." (Burke) 2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree. Origin: Ingrafted; Ingrafting Alternative forms: engraft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ingrain | 1. To dye with or in grain or kermes. 2. To dye in the grain, or before manufacture. 3. To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. "Our fields ingrained with blood." (Daniel) "Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all." (Helps) Origin: Ingrained; Ingraining Alternative forms: engrain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Ingrassia's apophysis | One of a bilateral pair of triangular, pointed plates extending laterally from the anterolateral body of the sphenoid bone. Forming the posteriormost portion of the floor of the anterior cranial fossa, their sharp posterior edge forms the sphenoidal ridge separating anterior and middle cranial fossae. The medial end of the lesser wing attaches to the body by means of two pedicles, thus forming the optic canal. The wing itself forms the superior margin of the supraorbital fissure. Synonym: ala minor ossis sphenoidalis, ala orbitalis, Ingrassia's apophysis, Ingrassia's wing. (05 Mar 2000) |