| incarnadine | To dye red or crimson. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| incarnant | Promoting or accelerating the granulation of a wound. Synonym: incarnative. Origin: L. Incarno, fr. In + caro (carn-), flesh (05 Mar 2000) |
| incarnation | 1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature. 2. The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ. 3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. "She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead." (Jeffrey) "The very incarnation of selfishness." (F. W. Robertson) 4. A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation. 5. <medicine> The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. Origin: F. Incarnation, LL. Incarnatio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incarnative | Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. An incarnative medicine. Origin: Cf. F. Incarnatif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incasement theory | Archaic theory that the embryo was fully formed in miniature within a gamete at the time of conception. See: homunculus. Synonym: emboitement, incasement theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incastelled | <veterinary> Hoofbound. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ince | <zoology> The ounce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incendiarism | Synonym: pyromania. Origin: L. Incendiarius, causing a conflagration (05 Mar 2000) |
| incensation | The offering of incense. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incense | 1. The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. "A thick of incense went up." (Ezek. Viii. 11) 2. The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc. "Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon." (Lev. X. 1) 3. Also used figuratively. "Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride," "With incense kindled at the Muse's flame." Incense tree, the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree. Incense wood, the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla. Origin: OE. Encens, F. Encens, L. Incensum, fr. Incensus, p. P. Of incendere to burn. See Incense to inflame. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incensebreathing | Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incenter | <geometry> The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incentive | In experimental psychology, an object or goal of motivated behaviour. Origin: LL. Incentivus, provocative (05 Mar 2000) |
| inception rate | The rate at which new spells of illness or cases of a condition occur in a population. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incertae sedis | <zoology> Of a taxon - one of uncertain taxonomic position, of uncertain seat. (09 Jan 1998) |