indesert 'Tis my own indesert that gives me fears. indesinent (in-des'i-nent), a. [= It. indesi- The last kind of activity is much more noble, more indesinent, and indefeasible than the first. A. Baxter, Human Souls, I. 351. indesinently (in-des'i-nent-li), adv. cessation. [Rare.] = His verdant blood = Without C. Smart, The Hop-Garden, i. indesirablet (in-dē-zīrʼa-bl), a. [<in-3 + desirable.] Undesirable." indestructibility (in-de-struk-ti-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. indestructibilité Sp. indestructibilidad Pg. indestructibilidade; as in-3 + destructibility.] The character of being indestructible: as, the indestructibility of matter and energy. indestructible (in-de-strukʼti-bl), a. [F. indestructible = Sp. indestructible = Pg. indestructivel= It. indistruttibile; as in-3 + destructible.] Not destructible; incapable of being destroyed. Our consciousness of the Absolute is not negative but positive, and is the one indestructible element of consciousness," which persists at all times, under all circumstances, and cannot cease until consciousness ceases. H. Spencer, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 455. indestructibleness (in-de-struk ́ti-bl-nes), n. Indestructibility. indestructibly (in-de-strukʼti-bli), adv. So as to be indestructible. indeterminable (in-de-tér'mi-na-bl), a. [= F. indéterminable = Sp. indeterminable Pg. indeterminavel It. indeterminabile, < LL. indeterminabilis, that cannot be defined, in- priv. + determinabilis, that can be defined: see determinable.] 1. Incapable of being determined, ascertained, or fixed. men will never be convinced. = Either the question is indeterminable, or, which is worse, Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 3, Ded. 2. Not to be determined or ended; interminable. [Rare.] His memory is indeterminable and unalterable, ever remembering to do us good. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 37. 3. In nat. hist., not definable; incapable of specialization: said of a specimen which, from its nature or condition, cannot be properly classified and named. n. = 3056 indeterminately (in-de-ter'mi-nat-li), adv. So The unpractised mind. . . indeterminately feels and indetermination (in-de-ter-mi-na'shọn), n. [= index 3. Something intended to point out, guide, or direct, as the hand of a clock or a steam-gage, the style of a sun-dial, an arm of a guide-post, or the figure of a hand (17). There was a sun-dial in the centre of the court; the sun shone on the brazen plate, and the shadow of the index fell on the line of noon. Peacock, Melincourt, xxxii. fied) list or table of the topics, names of per4. A detailed alphabetic (or, rarely, classisons, places, etc., treated or mentioned in a book or a series of books, pointing out their exact positions in the volume. Methinks 'tis a pitiful piece of knowledge that can be learnt from an index, and a poor ambition to be rich in the inventory of another's treasure. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xv. English grammars usually draw the distinction that indexes is the form used in speaking of the plural of index, as of a book, while indices is the scientific term, as in algebra. N. and Q., 6th ser., X. 69. unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind; 5+. Prelude; prologue. By contingents I understand all things which may be The eternal height of indetermin'd space! The cloisters of Christendom resounded . . . with dis- Pallas, = Who still lives indevirginate. There are so many of the same arguments, and so inde- Not devoted. Mr. Cowley's connections with some persons indevoted indeterminableness (in-de-tèr'mi-na-bl-nes), The greatest part of the questions and controversies that perplex mankind, depending on the doubtful and uncertain use of words, or (which is the same) indeterminate ideas, which these are made to stand for. Locke, Human Understanding, To the Reader. The rays of the same colour were by turns transmitted at one thickness, and reflected at another thickness, for an indeterminate number of successions. Newton, Opticks. tities than of independent equations, on which account the = It. indevotion (in-de-vō'shon), n. [= F. indéro- If we live in an age of indevotion, we think ourselves there is always given a greater number of unknown quan: index (in'deks), n.; pl. indexes, indices (in'dek- whose values are indeterminate until some equation is established between the two quantities which enter into each of them.- Indeterminate inflorescence, in bot., same as indefinite inflorescence. See indefinite.-Indeterminate multiplier, in alg., a multiplier whose value is at first left indeterminate, and afterward fixed to suit the exigencies of the problem.- Indeterminate problem, in math., a problem which admits of an infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or required results. Indeterminate quantity, in math., a quantity that admits of an infinite number of values.--Indeter Whatever stripes of ill-luck La Fleur met with in his journeyings, there was no index in his physiognomy to point them out by. Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 34. The standing army, the arsenal, the camp, and the gib- 2. In logic, a sign which signifies its object by Ah me, what act, That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. An index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 6. (a) In anat., the forefinger or pointing finger. (b) In ornith., the principal or middle digit of the wing of a bird: so called by those who hold that it is homologous with the forefinger of a mamof the wing is the middle digit of a mammal, mal; by those who hold that the middle digit the pollex or thumb of a bird's wing is called the index.-7. In math., the figure or letter which shows to what power a quantity is involved; the exponent. In the theory of numbers the index of a number to a given base for a given prime modulus of which that base is a prime root is the index of the power of the base which is congruous to the number. (See exponent, 3.) The index-law is the principle that abac = ab + c. The word index is, besides, used in various special senses in mathematics. See phrases below. 8. In crystal., in the notation of Whewell and fine the position of a face of a crystal: in the Miller, one of three whole numbers which denotation of Bravais, four numbers constitute the indices of a face of a hexagonal crystal.9. In musical notation, a direct.-10. [cap.] Same as Index Expurgatorius. The Index and Inquisition still survive, and the censures of the Church are not obsolete, though her last offices are more frequently rejected than withheld. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 297. Alveolar, basilar, cephalic, facial, etc., index. See craniometry.-Discriminantal index. See discriminantal.-Index finger. See def. 6 (a), and index-finger. -Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books), Index Expurgatorius (Expurgatory Index), catalogues of books comprising respectively those which Roman Catholics are absolutely forbidden to read, and those which they must not read unless in editions expurgated of objectionable passages. They are prepared by the Congregation of the Index, a body of cardinals and their assistants. Pope Paul IV. published a list of forbidden books in 1557 and 1559. The Council of Trent in 1562 attempted the regulation of the matter, but finally referred it to the Pope. He (Pius IV.) published the "Index Tridentinus" in 1564, often reprinted with additions under the title "Index Librorum Prohibitorum."-Index of a line relatively to a quadric surface, the quotient of the square of its secant by the fourth power of the parallel semidiameter.-Index of a logarithm, otherwise called the characteristic, the integral part which precedes the logarithm, and is always one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. Thus, if the given number consist of four figures, the index of its logarithm is 3; if of five figures the index is 4, and so on. See logarithm.-Index of a plane relatively to a quadric surface, the product of its distances from its pole and from the center of the quadric.-Index of a point relatively to a quadric surface, the product of its two distances from the surface in any direction divided by the square of the paral. lel semidiameter.-Index of a series of curves of order n satisfyingn (n+3)- 1 conditions, the number of these curves passing through an arbitrary point.-Index of friction. Same as coefficient of friction (which see, under coefficient).-Index of indeterminateness of a problem, really independent equations. -Index of refraction, in the excess of the number of unknowns over that of the optics, the ratio between the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction for a ray of light passing from one medium (usually the air) into another. Thus, this ratio for a ray passing from air into water is about 4:3, or, more exactly, 1.336, which is therefore the index of refraction of water. Also called refractive index. See refraction. The index of refraction in the passage of light from one medium into another must be equal to the relation that the rapidity of propagation of light in the first medium bears to its rapidity in the second. Lommel, Light (trans.), p. 236. Index rerum, an index of subjects.- Index verborum, an index of words; a verbal index. index (in'deks), v. t. [index, n.] 1. To point out, as an index; indicate. [Rare.] Whose iron-gray wool and wrinkled face indexed his age at near seventy years. The Century, XXIX. 683. 2. To make an index to, or place in an index: as, to index a book, or the contents of a book. index Where are the Somerset County records kept? Have index-correction (in'deks-ko-rek"shon), n. In 3057 mutiny of 1857-58 all power was in 1858 transferred to the to a board of control in London, and in 1834 the property of the company was vested in the crown and administered for it by the company; but in consequence of the Indian crown.-India cotton, a heavy kind of figured chintz, used for upholstering.-India docks, in London, extensive docks and warehouses for the accommodation of the shipping engaged in the East and West India trade.India ink, or China ink, or Chinese ink, a black pigment made originally and principally in China and Japan (though inferior imitations are made elsewhere). It is probably made from a carefully prepared lampblack, which is formed into a paste with a solution of gum in water and pressed into and dried in molds, forming sticks of vari ous shapes. Also Indian ink.-India matting, a kind of grass matting made in India, usually from Cyperus corym bosus.-India mull, a thin, soft muslin made in India, and used for dresses and trimmings. See mull.-India dia paper, a thin, soft, absorbent paper, usually of a palemyrrh. See myrrh.-India opium. See opium.-Inbuff tint, made in China and Japan, and imitated in Europe and the United States, where it is used for the first or finest impressions of engravings, called India proofs.India proof, an early and choice impression taken from an engraved plate or block on India paper.-India rubber. See india-rubber.-India senna. See senna.-India shawl, a Cashmere shawl. See Cashmere. index-glass (in'deks-glås), n. In reflecting as indiadem (in-dia-dem), v. t. [<in-2+diadem.] tronomical instruments, a plane speculum, or To place or set in a diadem, as a gem. [Rare.] mirror of quicksilvered glass, which moves with the index, and is designed to reflect the image of the sun or other object upon the horizonglass, whence it is again reflected to the eye of the observer. See sextant. indexical (in-dek'si-kal), a. [index + -ic-al.] Having the form of an index; pertaining to an index. surement. Besides lists of indexes and indexical works. The American, VIII. 267. indexically (in-dek'si-kal-i), adv. In the manner of an index. I would have the names of those scribblers printed indexically at the beginning or end of the poem, with an account of their works for the reader. Swift. index-law (in'deks-lâ), n. In math. See index, 7. indexless (in'deks-les), a. [< index+-less.] Destitute of an index. Carlyle, in Froude. My bewildering indexless state. indexlessness (in'deks-les-nes), n. The state of being without an index. [Rare.] Certainly no reader of the last year's volume of the Gazette can complain, in Carlylean phrase, of its indexlessness. Amer. Naturalist, XXII. 174. index-machine (in'deks-ma-shen"), n. In weaving, a modification of the Jacquard loom mechanism, in which the cards of the original Jacquard device are replaced by a shedding motion, effecting the same results as the cards so far as the pattern is concerned, but affording some advantages not obtainable in the primitive device; a dobby. In one form of index-machine pins arranged in accordance with the prescribed pattern are inserted in the bars or slats of a lath-work, the bars corresponding to the cards of the older device. In all kinds of index-machines the devices employed have for their object to throw in or out of action a series of hooks or bars which actuate the healds to form a shed for the passage of the shuttle according to a previously conceived system. The attachment is sometimes placed at the top and sometimes at the end of the loom. In Eccles's im provement a device is added for throwing the shedding motion out of action, and to permit the weaving of plain borders for handkerchiefs, etc. indexterity (in-deks-ter'i-ti), n. [= F. indextérité; as in-3+ dexterity.] Lack of dexterity, skill, or readiness in any respect; clumsiness; awkwardness; unskilfulness. The indexterity of our consumption-curers demonstrates their dimness in beholding its causes. Harvey, Consumptions. indfine (ind'fin), n. [Ir., < ind, head, + fine, tribe, family.] One of the groups into which the ancient Irish clans were divided. See geilfine. The eldest member of the Iarfine moved into the Ind fine; and the eldest member of the Indjine passed out of the organization altogether. Maine, Early Hist. of Institutions, p. 209. India (in'di-ä). [< L. India, < Gr. Ivdía, India: see Indian. In an attributive use: Indian; pertaining to India or the East Indies; made in, named from, or connected with India: as, India goods; the India trade. In English law or usage India generally means "all territories and places within her Majesty's dominions which are subject to the Governor-General of India." The principal territories under British administration are Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Northwestern Provinces, Central Provinces, Panjab, Assam, and Burma. Many native states are under British protection.-East India Company, a company formed for carrying on commerce in India and the East Indies. Various companies were organized under this name about the seventeenth century, as the Dutch, Swedish, Danish, French, etc., East India Companies. The most famous was the English East India Company, chartered in 1600; it founded many factories in India in the seventeenth century, and in the eighteenth acquired extensive political power over a large part of the country. It was governed by a court of directors, chosen from the wealthiest stockholders. A joint share in the government was in 1784 given Whereto shall that be likened? to what gem = = Southey. = Indiaman (in'di-ä-man),n.; pl. Indiamen (-men). = Of Ganges or Hydaspes, The springs Milton, P. L., iii. 436. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvi. 2. Pertaining or relating (a) originally to the Then smote the Indian tomahawk Whittier, Pentucket. Listen to this Indian Legend, Longfellow, Hiawatha, Prol. 3. Made of maize or Indian corn: as, Indian If I don't make a johnny-cake every day, Kier says, "Ma, Mrs. Whitcher, Widow Bedott, p. 70. works within the borders of Hindustan, but also in those Indian Architecture, Dravidian style. ering piers, arches, and flat surfaces, both without and See maize. The Summers [in New England] are commonly hot and dry, there being seldom any Rain, yet are the Harvests good, the Indian Corn requiring more heat than wet to ripen it. S. Clarke, Plantations of the English in [America (1670), p. 29. Indian couch-grass, a name sometimes given to the Bermuda grass, Cynodon Dactylon. See Bermuda grass, under grass.-Indian Councils Act. See council.-Indian country, a term which has varied in application with the changes in Indian occupation of lands within the territory of the United States. It is now understood as meaning all the country to which the Indian title has not been extinguished, whether within a reservation or not, except, perhaps, the regions occupied by Indians in Alaska, whose title to the soil, or right of occupancy, is disputed. -Indian cress. See cress.-Indian crocus, a name for some of the species of the genus Caelogyne (Pleione), of large, handsomely colored flowers, and are natives of the the Orchidea. They are dwarf epiphytal plants with alpine regions of northern India.-Indian cucumber. Same as cucumber-root.-Indian currant. See currant2. -Indian dart or dart-iron, a peculiar harpoon used in killing swordfish. Indian drugt, a name for tobacco. Nares. His breath compounded of strong English beere Indian elm, the slippery elm, Ulmus fulva.-Indian fan- Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 152. Indian (b) A baked, boiled, or steamed pudding made with Indian meal, molasses, and suet, and in New England in former times almost universally, and still quite extensively, forming a part of the Sunday dinner. oven. The Indian pudding, with its gelatinous softness, matured by long and patient brooding in the motherly old H. B. Stowe, Minister's Wooing, xvi. Indian red, reed, reservation, rice, etc. See the nouns, Indian ringworm. Same as dhobie's itch (which see, under dhobie).—Indian shot. See Indian-shot.-Indian steel. Same as wootz.-Indian summer, in the United States, a period in autumn characterized by calm and absence of rain. This condition is especially well manifested in the upper Mississippi valley, where it is in conspicuous contrast with the climatic phenomena which precede and follow it. West of the belt of States lying adjacent to the Mississippi the rainfall is so small that the chief characteristic of the Indian summer is not exceptional enough to excite attention; and from the Mississippi valley eastward, the autumnal periods of calm and dryness become more and more irregular in their occurrence, and are, on the whole, of shorter duration. Hence in the Eastern States any period of unusually quiet, dry, and hazy weather, even if it lasts only a few days, may be designated the Indian summer, provided it occurs at any time between the middle of September and the early part of December. The haze which fills the air at such times is simply the dust and smoke which are not blown away by the wind, but float near the earth's surface. The name is due to the fact that the phenomena of the Indian summer are much more distinctly marked in the region chiefly occupied by the Indians at the time this term became current than they are in the more eastern regions, to which the white population was chiefly limited prior to the beginning of the present century. That delicious season known as "Indian Summer" is often prolonged into December, when a calm, soft, hazy atmosphere fills the sky, through which, day after day, the sun, shorn of his beams, rises and sets like a globe of fire. J. W. Foster, The Mississippi Valley, p. 205. What visionary tints the year puts on, The warm, late days of Indian Summer came in, dreamy and calm and still, with just frost enough to crisp the ground of a morning, but with warm trances of benignant, sunny hours at noon. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 337. Indian tobacco, a plant, Lobelia inflata: same as gagroot. a North American plant, Arisama triphyllum, which has a very acrid root resembling a small turnip, one or two leaves, divided into three leaflets, and blossoms resembling those of plants of the genus Arum.Indian walnut. See walnut.-Indian yellow. See yellow.- Order of the Indian Empire, an order instituted in 1878 for British subjects in India, to commemorate the assumption by Queen Victoria of the title of Empress of India, and open to natives as well as to persons of European extraction.-West Indian bark. See bark2. II. n. 1. A member of one of the native races of India or the East Indies; an East Indian. a Indian Turnip (Arisama triphyllum). and female spadix. The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, Milton, P. L., ix. 1102. 2. A European who resides or has resided in the East Indies; an Anglo-Indian. He [Colonel Newcome] appeared at Bath and at Cheltenham, where, as we know, there are many old Indians. Thackeray, Newcomes, xxi. Our best Indians, . . . in the idleness and obscurity of home [Great Britain),.. look back with fondness to the country where they have been useful and distinguished. 3058 Mr. Prescott, in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes, also states Jake Marshall and me has been Indianing round these Indian-cup (in'di-an-kup), n. A plant of the Indian-heart (in'di-an-härt), n. A plant of Indianian (in-di-anʼi-an), a. and n. [< Indiana II. n. An inhabitant or a native of the State Indianist (in'di-an-ist), n. [< Indian + -ist.] The problems remained unsolved, because the Sino- known no Chinese. F. W. Farrar, Families of Speech, p. 13. indianite (in'di-an-it), n. [< Indian, a., 1, + -ite2.] In mineral., a variety of anorthite found in the Carnatic, where it is the gangue of corun dum. Indian-pipe (in'di-an-pip), n. The corpse- ranks next to teak. Also called sal-tree. a, flower with spathe turned back; b, c, male india-rubber (in'di-ä-rub'er), n. 1. An elastic Elphinstone, in Colebrooke, I. 366. 3. An aboriginal native of North or South America: so named by Columbus and other early navigators, who thought that the lands discovered by them were parts of India. In Eng. lish writers of the sixteenth century this name is confined to those tribes with whom the Spaniards came in contact; after 1600 it is applied also to the aboriginal inhabitants of North America generally. Now we are ready, I think, for any assault of the Indi ans; ... Let them come, if they like, be it sagamore, sachem, or pow-wow. Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, i. He was an Indian of the Llanos, . . . and had actually been upon the Oronoco. Kingsley, Westward Ho, xxi. every use. indicative when cold, and is more easily worked, so that its value for many commercial purposes is greatly increased. Since the process of vulcanization was discovered (by Charles Goodyear in 1844), pure rubber is rarely used, the vulcanized or changed rubber being far preferable for almost 2. An overshoe made of india-rubber. [Colloq., U.S.]-India-rubber tree, the name of several trees which produce india-rubber, but particularly of micus elastica. In Florida and the West Indies F. pedunculata is so designated.-India-rubber vine, an East Indian twining asclepiadaceous plant, Cryptostegia grandiflora, now also introduced sparingly into the West Indies. It yields a very pure caoutchouc. Indic (in'dik), a. [< L. Indicus, < Gr. 'Ivdikó, pertaining to India or the Indians, <'Ivdia, India, 'Ivoóc, Indian: see Indian.] Originating or flourishing in India: a comprehensive epithet sometimes applied to the Indo-European (Aryan) languages of India, including the ancient Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali, and the modern Hindi, Hindustani, Marathi, Bengali, etc. indicalt (in'di-kal), a. [< L. index (indic-), an index, +-al.] Related to or derived from in dexes. I confess there is a lazy kind of Learning which is only indical. Fuller, Worthies, Norfolk. indican (in'di-kan), n. [< NL. indicum, indigo (see indigo), + ̈-an.] The natural glucoside (C26H31NO17) by the decomposition of which indigo blue is produced from the various species of indigo-producing plants. It forms a transparent brown syrup, the aqueous solution of which has a the action of dilute mineral acids it splits up, forming indigo blue, indigo red, and indiglucin. indicant (in'di-kant), a. and n. [< L. indican(t-)s, ppr. of indicare, show, point out: see indicate.] I. a. Serving to indicate, point out, or suggest. yellow color, bitter taste, and slightly acid reaction. By II. n. That which serves to point out or indicate; specifically, in med., that which indicates a suitable remedy or treatment, as a symptom or combination of symptoms, or the history of the case. indicate (in'di-kāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. indicated, ppr. indicating. [< L. indicatus, pp. of indicare (> It. indicare Sp. Pr. indicar - F. indiquer), point out, indicate, in, in, to, + dicare, declare, orig. point: see diction. Cf. index.] 1. To point out; show; suggest, as by an outline or a word, etc.: as, the length of a shadow indicates the time of day; to indicate a picture by a sketch. = Above the steeple shines a plate 2. Especially, to give a suggestion of; serve Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause. Macaulay, Milton. Indicated duty, the work done by a steam-engine per unit weight of coal consumed, as shown by the steamengine indicator.-Indicated horse-power. See horsepower.-Indicated power, the power of the steam-engine as measured by the instrument called an indicator.=Syn. To mark, signify, denote, manifest, evidence, betoken. indication (in-di-ka'shon), n. [= F. indication Pr. indicatio Sp. indicacion = Pg. indicação It. indicazione, L. indicatio(n-), a showing, indicare, show: see indicate.] 1. The act of indicating or pointing out; a showing; exhibition; manifestation; prognostication. Without which you cannot make any true analysis and indication of the proceedings of nature. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 2. That which serves to indicate or point out; intimation; information; mark; token; sign; symptom. And that in the plain table there had not been only the description and indication of hours, but the configurations and indications of the various phases of the moon, the motion and place of the sun in the ecliptick, and divers other curious indications of celestial motions." Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 340. There is a wonderful passion, if I may so speak, in human nature for the Immutable and Unchangeable, that gives no slight indication of its own Immortality. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 109. indicative (in-dikʼa-tiv), a. and n. [= F. indicatif Pr. indicatiu = Sp. Pg. It. indicativo G. indicativ, LL. indicativus, serving to point out, L. indicare, pp. indicatus, point out.] I. a. 1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious; showing. = = indicative And I understand . . . the truth of this manner of operation in the instance of Isaac blessing Jacob, which in the several parts was expressed in all forms, indicative, optative, enunciative. Jer. Taylor, Divine Institution of the Office Ministerial. It often happens that clouds are not so indicative of a storm as the total absence of clouds. J. Burroughs, The Century, XXV. 674. 2. In gram., noting that mode of the verb which indicates (that is, simply predicates or affirms), without any further modal implication: as, he writes; he is writing; they run; has the mail arrived? II. n. In gram., the indicative mode. See I., 2. Abbreviated ind. indicatively (in-dik'a-tiv-li), adv. In a manner to show or signify. = = indicator (in'di-ka-tor), n. [= F. indicateur Sp. Pg. indicador It. indicatore, < LL. indicator, one who points out, < L. indicare, point out: see indicate. 1. One who indicates or points out; that which points out, directs, or reports, as a grade-post on a railroad, the pointer on a steam-gage, etc. It is used in compound names to describe a number of gaging or indicating appliances: as, leak-indicator, speed-indicator, etc. Indicator. 3059 and, in general, news of a character likely to affect the money-market. Also called ticker. Indicatoride (in di-ka-tor'i-de), n. pl. [NL., picarian birds, related to the barbets (Capito< Indicator + -ide.] A family of zygodactyl nide) and woodpeckers (Picida); the honeyguides or indicators. It is a small family of about 12 species of small dull-colored birds, noted for serving as pensile nests, lay white eggs, and some are said to be par guides to places where honey may be found. They build asitic, like cuckoos. Three species inhabit the Oriental region, Indicator xanthonotus of India, I. malayanus of Malacca, and I. archipelagicus of Borneo. The rest are African, as I. major, etc. Indicatorina (in-di-ka-to-ri'ne), n. pl. [NL.,< Indicator+ine.] The honey-guides as a subfamily of Cuculide, or of some other family of zygodactyl birds. W. Swainson; G. R. Gray; A. H. Garrod. indicatory (in'di-ka-tō-ri), a. [< indicate + -ory.] Serving to show or make known; showing. The box which covers the coil and indicatory part of the thermometer is merely to protect it from accidental injury. Sir C. W. Thomson, Depths of the Sea, p. 294. indicatrix (in-di-ka'triks), n. [NL., fem. to indicator.] 1. In geom., the curve of intersection of any surface with a plane indefinitely near and parallel to the tangent-plane at any point. The indicatrix is a hyperbola, a pair of parallel lines, or an ellipse, according as the surface is anticlastic, cylindrical, or synclastic, at the point of tangency. 2. In the theory of equations, a curve which exhibits the joint effect of the two middle criteria of Newton's rule, in the case of an equation of the fifth degree having all its roots imaginary.-Spherical indicatrix, the spherical curve traced on a unit sphere by the extremity of a radius drawn parallel to the tangent of a tortuous curve. indicavit (in-di-kā'vit), n. [L., he has shown, 3d pers. sing. perf. ind. act. of indicare, show: see indicate.] In Eng. eccles. law, a variety of the writ of prohibition. indicet (in'dis), n. [< F. indice, < L. index, index: see index.] An index. Too much talking is ever the indice of a foole. B. Jonson, Discoveries. indices, n. Latin plural of index. indicia (in-dish'i-ä), n. pl. [L., pl. of indicium, a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token, index (indic-), index: see index.] Discriminating marks; badges; tokens; indications; symptoms: as, indicia of fraud; indicia of disease. Reasoning by analogy, we find that, in many cases of bodily disease, the state of the mind is the first indicator of the mischief going on in the system. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 213. Specifically-(a) A steam (cylinder) pressure-gage. It is an apparatus for recording the variations of pressure or vacuum in the cylinder of a steam-engine. The accompanying cut represents a type of the indicator. The pipe with the stop-cock is screwed to the cylinder so that when the cock is opened the pressure of the steam within may enter the cylinder above, press the piston upward against the action of a spring constructed to give a definite resistance in pounds per square inch, and cause the lever-arm to rise and mark on the hollow cylinder at the left a vertical trace, the altitude of which measures the pressure. A card or a sheet of paper may be fitted to this cylinder, and the trace be made on the paper. The hollow cylinder is free to revolve, if drawn by the loose cord hanging from it. To operate the indicator, the cord is connected with some moving part of the engine so that a single stroke of the piston causes the cylinder and the card to revolve once (the return being secured by a spring) as the pencil makes one mark. Since the pencilmark is timed to one stroke of the engine, the resulting curved line on the card gives a graphic report of the pressure or vacuum of the steam during one complete stroke. Such graphic curves are called indicator-diagrams, the marked card being called an indicator-card. See indicator-diagram, under diagram. (b) The dial and pointer of a signal-telegraph used on private lines, where rapidity of delivery of the messages is not impor- If the malignity of this sad contagion spend no faster tant. It consists of a dial having the letters of the al- before winter, the calamity will be indicible. phabet printed upon it, and a pointer that traverses the Evelyn, To Lord Cornebery, Sept. 9, 1665. circle, pausing before the letters of the word indicot, n. An obsolete form of indigo. transmitted, thus spell- indicolite (in-dik'o-lit), n. [< Gr. ivdikóv, indiIn mineral., a variety of go,+i0os, stone.] tourmaline of an indigo-blue color, sometimes with a tinge of azure or green. Also indigolite. indict (in-dit'), v. t. [Formerly also endict; the e is a mod. insertion, in imitation of the orig. L.; prop., as the pron. shows, indite, endite, the older form being now differentiated in sense; < OF. enditer, endicter, inditer, indicter, indict, accuse, point out, < L. indictare, declare, accuse, freq. of indicere, pp. indictus, declare, appoint (in sense appar. in part confused with L. indicare, point out), < in, in, + dicere, say: see still usually written indite (which see.) [Obdiction.] 1. To compose; write: properly and solete or archaic.]-2t. To appoint publicly or by authority; proclaim. Wheatstone's Indicator-telegraph. ing out the message. See telegraph. (e) In a mi croscope, an arrange ment for marking the position of a particular object in the field of view. Quekett's indicator was a steel finger connected with the eyepiece. (d) In mining, an arrangement by means of which the position of the cage in the shaft is known to the man in charge of the winding-engine. (e) In the theory of numbers, the any number less than and exponent of that power of prime to any modulus, which power is the least power of the same number congruous to unity. (f) In anat., the extensor indicis, a muscle which extends the forefinger, as in the act of pointing. It arises from the back of the ulna, and is inserted into the index-finger, which can thus be straightened independently of the other fingers. [In this sense only the plural is indicatores.] 2. In ornith.: (a) A honey-guide; a species of the genus Indicator or family Indicatorida. (b) [cap.] The typical and leading genus of Indicatorida, established by Vieillot in 1816. I. major and I. minor are examples. See Indicatorida.-Celestial indicator, an apparatus for finding the relative positions of the principal stars and constellations.-Hydraulic indicator. See hydraulic.-Indicator-card. See def. 1 (a), above.-Indicator-diagram. See def. 1 (a), above.-Indicator muscle, the extensor indicis. Low-water indicator, a device for showing the depth of water in a steam-boiler. The usual form is a glass tube, placed vertically at the end of the boiler, in which the water rises: commonly called a water-gage. In another form the depth of water is indicated by a pointer on a dial.-Stock indicator, an electric-telegraph machine which records automatically in letters and figures, on a strip of paper called a tape, the names and prices of stock and other funds sent out from a central office, indiciblet (in-dis'i-bl), a. [< F. indicible, <ML. indicibilis, that cannot be said, < in- priv. + dicibilis, < L. dicere, say: see diction.] Unspeakable; inexpressible. And therefore, as secular princes did use to indict or permit the indiction of synods of bishops, so, when they saw cause, they confirm'd the sentences of bishops and pass'd them into laws. Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, iii. 4. I am told we shall have no Lent indicted this year. Evelyn. 3. To find chargeable with a criminal offense, and in due forms of law to accuse of the same, as a means of bringing to trial: specifically said of the action of a grand jury. See indictment. No matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation. Shak., Hamlet (Globe ed.), ii. 2. About the same Time, Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice, came to Coventry, where he indicted two thousand PerBaker, Chronicles, p. 143. You are here indicted by the names of Guildford Dudand high treason against our most sovereign lady the queen's majesty. Dekker and Webster, Sir Thomas Wyat, -Syn. 3. Charge, Indict, etc. See accuse. sons. ley, Lord Dudley, Jane Gray, Lady Jane Gray, of capital indictable (in-di'ta-bl), a. [< indictable.] 1. Capable of being indicted; liable to indict indifference ment: as, an indictable offender.-2. That may subject one to an indictment; that may be punished by a proceeding commenced by indictindictee (in-di-te'), n. ment: as, an indictable offense. [< indict +-ee1.] One who is indicted. indicter, indictor (in-di'ter, -tor), n. One who indicts. And then maister More saith yet further that vpon indightmentes at Sessions the indighters vse not to shewe ye names of them that gaue them informacion. Sir T. More, Works, p. 987. indiction (in-dik'shon), n. [= F. indiction, < L. indictio(n-), a declaration of imposition of a tax, LL. a space of 15 years, indicere, declare: see indict.] 1t. A declaration; proclamation. After a legation "ad res repetendas," and a refusal, and a denunciation, and indiction of war, the war is left at large. Bacon. The emperor subscribed with his own hand, and in purple ink, the solemn edict or indiction. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, xvii. 2. A fiscal period of fifteen years, established by Constantine the Great after the reorganization of the Roman Empire, being the term during which the annual tax on real property was paid on the basis of a valuation made and proclaimed at the beginning of each quindecennial period. This became a common and convenient means for dating ordinary transactions. By a very easy connection of ideas, the word indiction was transferred to the measure of tribute which it prescribed, and to the annual term which it allowed for payment. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, xvii. Hence-3. In chron., a year bearing a number, or the number attached to the year, showing its place in a cycle of fifteen years, counting from A. D. 313. To find the indiction, add 3 to the number of the year in the vulgar era, and divide by 15; the remainder is the indiction, or, if there is no re mainder, the indiction is 15. There were three varieties, differing only in the commencement of the year: the original Greek or Constantinopolitan, reckoned from September 1st of what we consider the previous year; the Roman or Pontifical (a bad designation, since it was not used preferentially in the bulls of the popes), beginning with the civil year, January 1st, December 25th, or March 25th; and the Constantinian, Imperial, or Cæsarean (due to a blunder of the Venerable Bede), beginning September 24th. Giuen in the moneth of November, and vpon the tenth Indiction. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 20. The name and use of the Indictions, which serve to ascertain the chronology of the middle ages, was derived from the regular practice of the Roman Tributes. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, xvii. indictivet (in-dik'tiv), a. [< LL. indictivus, <L. indicere, pp. indictus, declare: see indict, indiction.] Proclaimed; declared. In all the funerals of note, especially in the publick or indictive, the corpse was first brought, with a vast train of followers, into the forum. Kennet, Antiquities of Rome, ii. 5. indictment (in-dit'ment), n. [Formerly also endictment; indict +-ment.] indicting; accusation; formal charge or statement of grievances; formal complaint before a tribunal. 1. The act of All their lives, That by indictment, and by dint of sword, Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 2. In law, the formal complaint by which a criminal offense, found by the grand jury to have been committed, is by it charged against the supposed offender for presentation to the court, that he may be put on trial. It is generally draftbe by the concurrence of at least twelve of the jurors, ed by the public prosecutor, and is termed a bill until it has received the sanction of the grand jury, which must attested by oath or affirmation. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. Blackstone, Com., IV. xxiii. 3. In Scots law, a form or process by which a criminal is brought to trial at the instance of the lord advocate. It runs in the name of the lord advocate, and, addressing the panel by name, charges the latter with being guilty of the crime for which he is to be brought to trial. Bill of indictment. See def. 2.Finding an indictment, the act of the grand jury, on investigating an offense, in approving an indictment of the supposed offender. indictor, n. See indicter. indienne (F. pron. an-di-en'), n. [F., fem. of Indien, Indian: see Indian.] Printed calico, especially that printed in bright colors with a rather small pattern: the French term, often used in English. indifference (in-dif'e-rens), n. [< F. indifférence = Sp. indiferencia Pg. indifferença = It. indifferenza, <L. indifferentia, indifferen(t-)s, indifferent: see indifferent.] 1. The state of = indifference being indifferent, as between persons or things; absence of prepossession or bias; impartiality. He is through such pryde farre fro such indifference & equitie as ought and must be in the judges which he sayth I assigne. Sir T. More, Works, p. 1008. After praise and scorn, As one who feels the immeasurable world, Attain the wise indifference of the wise. Tennyson, A Dedication. 2. The state of being indifferent or apathetic; the absence of definite preference or choice; want of differentiation or variation of feeling; absence of special interest; apathy; insensibility. Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die from an impatience of suffering, or from that passive indifference which is sometimes the result of debility and bodily exhaustion. Sir H. Halford. This absolute indifference to the sight of human suffering does not represent the full evil resulting from the gladiatorial games. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 295. 3. The character of being indifferent or immaterial; want of essential difference with respect to choice, use or non-use, etc.; immateriality; unimportance: as, the indifference of particular actions or things.-4. The condition of being indifferent in character or quality; a falling short of the standard of excellence; comparative mediocrity: as, the indifference of one's penmanship or work. Also indifferency. Doctrine of indifference, an opinion current in the twelfth century concerning the question of the nature of universals: namely, that nothing exists except individuals, but that, if the mind neglects the peculiar properties of this or that individual, and considers only those characters wherein one individual agrees with others, the object of thought, though still the individual, is in the state of being a species or genus.- Liberty of indifference, freedom from necessity; the freedom of the will: so called because before the choice or election is made the action of the will is undetermined as to acting or not acting, a state called indifference of action.-Point of magity, etc. See neutrality.-2. Insensibility, Impassibility, See magnetic, Syn. 1. Neutraletc. (see apathy); Inattention, etc. (see negligence); carelessness, coolness, coldness, heedlessness, nonchalance. 4. Poorness, low grade. indifferencedt (in-dif'e-renst), a. Having an appearance of indifference. Davies. netic indifference. more. I again turned to her, all as indifferenced over as a girl at the first long-expected question, who waits for two Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, III. 186. indifferency (in-dif'e-ren-si), n. difference. Same as in = = 3060 I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse II. n. 1. One who is indifferent or apathetic. Contemporary Rev., LIII. 180. 2. That which is indifferent or an object of indifference; that which affords no decisive ground of choice. Now, where there are no indifferents and no choice be tween them, rights are never wider than duties. indifferentiated (in-dif-e-ren'shi-a-ted), a. [< sance. 2. In metaph., the doctrine of absolute identity; erence. Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances. The man is all. Emerson, Compensation. indifferent (in-dif'e-rent), a. and n. different, < OF. indifferent, F. indifférent [ME. in 2. Not particularly well, but still not ill; tolindiferente erably; passably. Sp. Pg. It. indiferente, < L. indifferen(t-)s, not different, in- priv. + differen(t-)s, different: see different.] I. a. 1. Without difference of inclination; not preferring one person or thing to another; neutral; impartial; unbiased; disinterested: as, an indifferent judge, juror, or arbitrator. My lords, be as the law is, nearly dispose me to this noble virtue. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 2. 2. Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care; unconcerned; apathetic: as, a man indifferent to his eternal welfare. I'll give you your Revenge another time, when you are not so indifferent; you are thinking of something else now, and play too negligently. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 1. In every man's career are certain points Whereon he dares not be indifferent. Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology. 3. Not making a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; immaterial; of no account: as, it is indifferent which road we take. Dangers are to me indifferent. Shak., J. C., i. 3. 4. Regarded without difference of feeling; not exciting special interest; uninteresting. Mutual love gives an importance to the most indifferSteele, Spectator, No. 263. I cannot say that I particularly wish him to have more affection for me than he has.. indifferent to us, we grow indifferent to their indifference. When people are long Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxi. 5. Falling short of any standard of excellence; of common or mediocre quality or kind; only passable or tolerable; ordinary. ent things, and a merit to actions the most insignificant. Ham. Good lads, how do ye both? I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. indiffusible (in-di-fù'zi-bl), a. [<in-3+ diffusi ble.] Not diffusible. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal soyle. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 112. indigestion Under the Frankish law, "the tything-man is Decanus, Such bodies have the tangible parts indigent of moisture. 2. Lacking means of comfortable subsistence The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from = To fortify the most indigest and crude stomach. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 2. II. n. A crude mass; a disordered state of affairs. Be of good comfort, prince; for you are born Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude. All dreams, as in old Galen I have read, 2. Not regularly disposed or arranged; not re- They cannot think any doubt resolv'd, and any doctrine confirm'd, unlesse they run to that indigested heap and frie of Authors which they call Antiquity. Milton, Prelatical Episcopacy. In hot reformations, in what men more zealous than considerate call making clear work, the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested. Burke, Economical Reform. 3. In phar., not digested; not prepared or softened with the aid of heat, as chemical substances.-4t. In med., not advanced to suppuindigestedness (in-di-jes'ted-nes), n. ration: as, an indigested wound. state of being indigested. The They looked on the Common Law as a study that could not be brought into a scheme, nor formed into a rational science, by reason of the indigestedness of it. Quoted in Bp. Burnet's Life of Hale. = indigestibilité Pr. indigestibilitat = It. indigesindigestibility (in-di-jes-ti-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. tibilità; as indigestible + -ity.] The state or quality of being indigestible. indigestible (in-di-jes'ti-bl), a. [< F. indigesindigestibilis, in- priv.+ digestibilis, digestible: tible = Sp. indigestible = It. indigestibile, ‹ LL. unassimilable, as food. see digestible.] 1. Not digestible physically; Brown bread, oatmeal porridge, etc., are taken for the very aperient action they induce, owing to the irritating nature of the indigestible husks they contain. Quain, Med. Dict. brooked; incomprehensible or unendurable: 2. Not digestible mentally; not to be assimilated by the mind; not to be stomached or as, an indigestible statement; an indigestible affront. Who but a boy, fond of the florid and the descriptive, could have poured forth such a torrent of indigestible similes? T. Warton, Poems attributed to Rowley, p. 79. indigenous (in-dij'e-nus), a. [= F. indigène = America. ish poetry. indigestibleness (in-di-jes'ti-bl-nes), n. Indigestibility. = |