<B>inca, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sea bird of the western coast of South America having dark plumage with a bundle of white plumes on each side of the head; inca tern. </DL>
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<B>Inca, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cas</B> or <B>-ca.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the group of South American Indians who ruled a large empire in Peru and other parts of South America before the Spanish conquest in the 1500's. The Incas were highly civilized. <DD><B> 2. </B>a ruler or a member of the royal family of this group. The Incas were Quechuans. </DL>
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<B>Inca dove,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, grayish dove with feathers edged with black, found from Texas and Arizona south to Central America. </DL>
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<B>Incaic, </B>adjective. =Incan.</DL>
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<B>incalculability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being incalculable. </DL>
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<B>incalculable, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>too many to be counted; too great to be calculated; innumerable; beyond counting; numerous. <BR> <I>Ex. The sands of the sea are incalculable in number. In an instant, a treasure of incalculable value lay gleaming before us (Edgar Allan Poe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>impossible to foretell or reckon beforehand. <BR> <I>Ex. A flood in the valley would cause incalculable losses.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>that cannot be relied on; uncertain. <BR> <I>Ex. He has an incalculable disposition.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> something incalculable. <BR> <I>Ex. All the considerations are here, some resolved into formulae ... and some still too much hampered by incalculables (New Scientist).</I> noun <B>incalculableness.</B> </DL>
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<B>incalculably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an incalculable manner; immeasurably. </DL>
<B>in camera,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>in private, or within closed doors; secret. <BR> <I>Ex. Legislative investigations can be successfully carried on in camera without hoopla (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) in a chamber. </DL>
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<B>Incan, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an Inca. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Incas. </DL>
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<B>incandesce, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-desced,</B> <B>-descing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to glow or cause to glow with heat. </DL>
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<B>incandescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of a body which glows and gives off light when it is heated; red-hot or white-hot condition. <BR> <I>Ex. It was found that electrical energy could be converted into light by sending a current through a wire of high resistance, thereby heating it to incandescence. (Hardy and Perrin).</I> </DL>
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<B>incandescent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>glowing with heat; red-hot or white-hot; heated to such a high temperature that it gives out light. <BR> <I>Ex. The embers of the fire were still incandescent even though the flames had disappeared. The light of an electric lamp comes from an incandescent filament.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) intensely bright; brilliant; radiant. <BR> <I>Ex. The young man with the dark forelock dropping over his incandescent eyes (Time). [He] makes a first appearance of incandescent charm (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having to do with or containing a material that gives light by incandescence. adv. <B>incandescently.</B> </DL>
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<B>incandescent lamp</B> or <B>bulb,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lamp containing a material that gives light by incandescence, especially an electric lamp with a filament of very fine wire that becomes white-hot and gives off light when current flows through it; light bulb. <BR> <I>Ex. Mercury lamps provide a source of light two or three times as efficient as incandescent lamps (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>incandescent light,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the light produced from an incandescent object, lamp, or the like. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=incandescent lamp.</B> </DL>
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<B>incant, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to use (a set of words) as incantation. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to enchant; charm. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to use incantation or enchantment. <BR> <I>Ex. He recited, he incanted, and one way or another interposed himself between Yeats and [others] (London Times).</I> noun <B>incantator.</B> </DL>
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<B>incantation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a set of words spoken or chanted as a magic charm or to cast a magic spell. "Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble," is an incantation. <DD><B> 2. </B>the use of such words. <DD><B> 3. </B>magical ceremonies; magic; sorcery. </DL>
<B>incantatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like an incantation. <BR> <I>Ex. Malraux strives to convert us to an old faith, and his style, appropriately, is incantatory, intoxicant, and Wagnerian (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>incap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) an incapacitant. </DL>
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<B>INCAP, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama. </DL>
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<B>incapability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a being incapable; incapacity; unfitness. (SYN) inability, incompetence. </DL>
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<B>incapable, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having very little ability; without ordinary ability; not capable; not efficient; not competent. <BR> <I>Ex. An employer cannot afford to hire incapable workers.</I> (SYN) incompetent, inefficient, unable, unfit. <DD><I>noun </I> a thoroughly incompetent person; person without capacity or ability. <BR> <I>Ex. No greater mistake can be made than, as journalists and politicians are apt to do, to treat the mass of members of a Trade Society as dupes, idlers, drunkards, or incapables (Punch).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>incapable of,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>without the ability, power, or fitness for. </I> <I>Ex. That weak boy is incapable of making the football team. His honesty made him incapable of lying.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>not legally qualified for. <BR> <I>Ex. A foreigner is incapable of becoming president of the United States.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>not open or ready for; not susceptible to. <BR> <I>Ex. incapable of exact measurement. Gold is almost incapable of rusting.</I> <DD><B> d. </B>(Archaic.) not capable of understanding or comprehending; insensible to. <BR> <I>Ex. She chanted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress (Shakespeare).</I> noun <B>incapableness.</B> adv. <B>incapably.</B> </DL>
<B>incapacitant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chemical agent or drug temporarily inducing sleepiness, dizziness, disorientation, or paralysis. </DL>
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<B>incapacitate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-tated,</B> <B>-tating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to limit in ability, power, or fitness; disable. <BR> <I>Ex. The player's injury incapacitated him for playing football.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to disqualify legally. <BR> <I>Ex. The people cannot incapacitate the King (John Dryden).</I> </DL>
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<B>incapacitation, </B>noun. =incapacity.</DL>
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<B>incapacitator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any substance used, especially in warfare, to disable a person temporarily, as by inducing sleep or mental confusion; incapacitant. </DL>
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<B>incapacity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>lack of ability, power, or fitness; disability. <BR> <I>Ex. a leaden incapacity of motion that seized him (Charles Reade).</I> (SYN) unfitness, inability, incompetence. <DD><B> b. </B>an instance of this. <DD><B> 2. </B>legal disqualification. </DL>
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<B>Incaparina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several inexpensive, protein-rich, vegetable foods developed by INCAP to combat conditions of nutritional deficiency in Central and South America. </DL>
<B>incardinate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>to institute or attach as chief presbyter, priest, or deacon, in a particular place, church, or diocese. <DD><B> b. </B>(in the roman Catholic Church) to make formal observance of the accession of (a candidate to the priesthood or a priest to a diocesan post). <DD><B> 2. </B>to institute as a cardinal. noun <B>incardination.</B> </DL>
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<B>incarnadine, </B>adjective, noun, verb, <B>-dined,</B> <B>-dining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1a. </B>crimson or blood-red. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=bloodstained.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=flesh-colored.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>flesh color; blush color. <DD><B> 2. </B>a crimson or blood-red color. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make blood-red or flesh-colored. </DL>
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<B>incarnate, </B>adjective, verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>embodied in flesh, especially in human form. <BR> <I>Ex. the Devil incarnate. The villain was evil incarnate.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>personified or typified, as a quality or idea. <BR> <I>Ex. Liberty and independence itself seemed incarnate in his name (John R. Green).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Botany.) flesh-colored. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make incarnate; embody. <DD><B> 2. </B>to put into an actual form; realize. <BR> <I>Ex. The sculptor incarnated his vision in a beautiful statue.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to be the living embodiment of. <BR> <I>Ex. She incarnates all the virtues of womanhood. Lancelot incarnated the spirit of chivalry.</I> (SYN) personify. </DL>
