<B>Injun</B> or <B>injun, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal or Dialect.) an American Indian. </DL>
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<B>injunction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a command; order. <BR> <I>Ex. He obeyed his mother's injunction to hurry straight home. Injunctions of secrecy did not prevent the news from leaking out.</I> (SYN) behest. <DD><B> 2. </B>a formal order from a law court ordering a person or group to do, or not to do, something. <BR> <I>Ex. The owner got an injunction prohibiting people from lighting fires on the vacant lot next to his house. Sheriff's deputies arrived to enforce a court injunction against mass picketing (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of commanding or authoritatively directing. </DL>
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<B>injunctive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> serving to command. </DL>
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<B>injure, </B>transitive verb, <B>-jured,</B> <B>-juring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to do damage to; harm; hurt. <BR> <I>Ex. Do not break or injure the bushes in the park. The misunderstanding injured their friendship.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to be unfair to; do wrong to. <BR> <I>Ex. Those that are not favoured will think themselves injured (Samuel Johnson).</I> adj. <B>injurable.</B> noun <B>injurer.</B> </DL>
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<B>injurious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>causing injury; harmful. <BR> <I>Ex. Hail is injurious to crops.</I> (SYN) hurtful, detrimental, deleterious, damaging. <DD><B> 2. </B>unfair; unjust; wrongful. <BR> <I>Ex. Call him my king by whose injurious doom My elder brother ... Was done to death? (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) willfully offensive in language; insulting. (SYN) calumnious. adv. <B>injuriously.</B> noun <B>injuriousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>injury, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>hurt or loss caused to or endured by a person or thing; harm; damage. <BR> <I>Ex. He escaped from the train wreck without injury. The accident will be an injury to the reputation of the railroad.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>unfairness; wrong. <BR> <I>Ex. The saint never did injury to any person.</I> (SYN) injustice. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Law.) a wrong which furnishes grounds for a lawsuit. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) intentionally offensive speech or words; insult. </DL>
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<B>injustice, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>lack of justice; being unjust. <BR> <I>Ex. Injustice is inevitable in war (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an unjust act or circumstance; a wrong. <BR> <I>Ex. It is an injustice to send an innocent man to jail. A scientific man must expect his little disappointments and injustices (Charles Kingsley).</I> </DL>
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<B>ink, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a colored or black liquid used for writing, printing, or drawing. <DD><B> 2. </B>a dark liquid thrown out for protection by cuttlefish. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put ink on; mark or stain with ink. <BR> <I>Ex. A poor gentleman who inks the seams of his coat (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cover (type, an engraving, or printing block) with ink to print with. noun <B>inker.</B> adj. <B>inkless.</B> adj. <B>inklike.</B> </DL>
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<B>inkberry, </B>noun pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a holly of eastern North America, having shiny leathery evergreen leaves and small black berries. <DD><B> 2. </B>its berry. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=pokeweed.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>its berry. </DL>
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<B>inkblot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a spot or stain made with ink. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the designs or patterns used in the Rorschach test. </DL>
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<B>inkblot test,</B> =Rorschach test.</DL>
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<B>inkhorn, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a small container, often made of horn, formerly used to hold ink. <BR> <I>Ex. Pulling out an old inkhorn, he proceeded to fill out a bill of sale (Harriet Beecher Stowe).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> learned or bookish; pedantic. </DL>
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<B>inkhorn term,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a learned or bookish term. </DL>
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<B>ink-jet, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a high-speed printing process using jets of ink broken up into electrically charged droplets that form letters and pictures on paper in a magnetic field regulated by a computer. <BR> <I>Ex. Ink-jet printers have to be used in conjunction with a computer (New Scientist). The ink-jet machines are appearing where high speed or automated typing is required (Richard K. Pefley).</I> </DL>
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<B>inkle</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a narrow, colored linen tape. <DD><B> 2. </B>the thread or yarn from which it is manufactured. </DL>
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<B>inkle</B> (2), transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-kled,</B> <B>-kling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to give a hint of; hint. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Dialect.) to get an inkling or notion of. </DL>
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<B>inkling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a vague notion; slight suspicion; hint. <BR> <I>Ex. to give a person an inkling of what is going on.</I> </DL>
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<B>inkslinger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a writer. <DD><B> 2. </B>a clerk in a loggers' camp. </DL>
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<B>inkstand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a stand to hold ink and pens. <DD><B> 2. </B>a container used to hold ink. </DL>
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<B>inkwell, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a container used to hold ink on a desk or table. </DL>
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<B>inkwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small tree of the soapberry family, found in the West Indies and southern Florida. It has hard, reddish-brown wood. </DL>
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<B>inky, </B>adjective, <B>inkier,</B> <B>inkiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like ink; dark or black. <BR> <I>Ex. inky shadows.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>covered with ink; marked or stained with ink. <BR> <I>Ex. the inky hands of a printer.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of ink; written with ink; using ink. <DD><B> 4. </B>full of ink. adv. <B>inkily.</B> noun <B>inkiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>inky cap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of mushrooms whose top disintegrates into a black liquid after the spores are discharged. </DL>
<B>inlaid, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>set in the surface as a decoration or design. <BR> <I>Ex. The desk has an inlaid design of light wood in dark.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>decorated with a design or material set in the surface. <BR> <I>Ex. The wooden box has an inlaid top of silver.</I> <DD><I>verb </I> the past tense and past participle of <B>inlay:</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The workmen inlaid colored tiles in a design in the kitchen floor. The floor was inlaid with colored tiles.</I> </DL>
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<B>inland, </B>adjective, noun, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>away from the coast or the border; situated in the interior. <BR> <I>Ex. Illinois is an inland state. An inland waterway is a canal, river, or lake which may be used by boats or barges (Edward J. Taaffe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not foreign; domestic. <BR> <I>Ex. Commerce between the states of the United States is inland trade.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the interior of a country; land away from the borders or the coast. <BR> <I>Ex. A wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) the inlying districts near the capital and centers of population, as opposed to the remote or outlying wild parts. <DD><I>adv. </I> in or toward the interior. <BR> <I>Ex. He traveled inland from New York to Chicago.</I> </DL>
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<B>inlander, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who lives in the interior of a country; inland inhabitant. </DL>
<B>inlaw, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Old English Law.) to clear of outlawry or attainder; restore to the protection of the law. </DL>
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<B>in-law, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person related by marriage. <BR> <I>Ex. The stories, which he has absorbed by listening to his wife and in-laws ... (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>inlawry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Old English Law.) restoration to the protection of the law. </DL>
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<B>inlay, </B>verb, <B>-laid,</B> <B>-laying,</B> noun, pl. <B>-lays.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to set into the surface as a decoration or design. <BR> <I>Ex. The craftsman inlaid strips of gold in the top of the wooden box.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to decorate with a design set in the surface. <BR> <I>Ex. to inlay a wooden box with gold.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to insert (a page, picture, or notice) in a book in a heavy page which serves as a frame or mount. <DD><B> 4. </B>to provide (a book) with such insertions. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Horticulture.) to insert (a scion) into a slit in the bark of a stock. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an inlaid decoration, design, or material. <DD><B> 2. </B>a shaped piece of gold or porcelain, cemented in a tooth as a filling. <DD><B> 3. </B>an inlaid page, picture, or notice in a book. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Horticulture.) a graft made by inlaying. noun <B>inlayer.</B> </DL>
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<B>inlay graft,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Horticulture.) a graft made by inserting a scion into a slit in the bark of the stock. </DL>
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<B>in.-lb.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> inch-pound. </DL>
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<B>inleakage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of leaking in. <BR> <I>Ex. ... tightening up the system to avoid air inleakage (C. Rogers McCullough).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something that leaks in. <DD><B> 3. </B>the amount leaking in. </DL>
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<B>inlet, </B>noun, verb, <B>-let,</B> <B>-letting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a narrow strip of water running from a larger body of water into the land or between islands. <BR> <I>Ex. The fishing village was on a small inlet of the sea.</I> (SYN) arm. <DD><B> 2. </B>a way of entering; entrance. <BR> <I>Ex. an inlet to a parking lot. (Figurative.) The bank was an inlet for a flood of paper money.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a piece let in or inserted. <DD><B> 4. </B>a letting in; admission. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to let in; insert (one thing) in another. </DL>
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<B>inlier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) a part of one formation completely surrounded by another formation of a later date. </DL>
