<B>inning, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the time when each team is at bat in turn in baseball. <DD><B> 2. </B>the turn of one side in a game; chance to play. <DD><B> 3. </B>Usually, <B>innings.</B> (Figurative.) the time a person or party is in power; chance for action. <BR> <I>Ex. When our party lost the election, the other side had its innings.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the act of taking in or enclosing, especially the reclaiming of marsh or flooded land. <DD><B> 5. </B>the act of getting in, especially the gathering of crops; harvesting. </DL>
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<B>innings, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(British.) an inning in cricket. <DD><B> 2. </B>lands taken in or reclaimed. </DL>
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<B>innkeeper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who owns, manages, or keeps an inn. </DL>
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<B>innkeeping, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the keeping of an inn; business of an innkeeper. </DL>
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<B>innocence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>freedom from sin, wrong, or guilt. <BR> <I>Ex. The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.</I> (SYN) guiltlessness. <DD><B> 2. </B>lack of cunning; simplicity. <BR> <I>Ex. The saint had the innocence of a child.</I> (SYN) naivete, guilelessness, artlessness. <DD><B> 3. </B>lack of sense; ignorance; silliness. <DD><B> 4. </B>(of things) harmlessness; innocuousness. <DD><B> 5. </B>an innocent person or thing. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=bluet.</B> <DD><B> 7a. </B>a small, slender annual herb of the figwort family, having a blue-and-white flower. <DD><B> b. </B>a closely related herb of California. </DL>
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<B>innocency, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B> <B>=innocence.</B></DL>
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<B>innocent, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>doing no wrong or evil; free from sin or wrong; not guilty. <BR> <I>Ex. "I am not a thief!" the prisoner cried. "I am an innocent man!"</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>without knowledge of evil. <BR> <I>Ex. A baby is innocent. The innocent brightness of a new-born day (Wordsworth).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having or showing the simplicity and trusting nature of a child; guileless; naive. <BR> <I>Ex. For all she looks so innocent ... take my word for it she is no fool (Sir Richard Steele).</I> (SYN) simple, artless, ingenuous. <DD><B> 4. </B>doing no harm; harmless. <BR> <I>Ex. innocent amusements.</I> (SYN) innocuous. <DD><B> 5. </B>that does not transgress the law; lawful; not contraband. <BR> <I>Ex. innocent goods carried to a belligerent.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>spotless; stainless. <DD><B> 7. </B>lacking in sense; silly; half-witted. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Medicine.) not malignant. <BR> <I>Ex. an innocent tumor.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an innocent person. <BR> <I>Ex. the souls of the poor innocents (Jeremiah 2:34).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an idiot; fool; simpleton. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a young child, not yet acquainted with evil. <DD><B> b. </B>a guileless, simple, or unsuspecting person. <BR> <I>Ex. He is more or less of a political innocent, a bystander (Newsweek).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>innocent of,</B> </I>lacking; devoid of; free from. <BR> <I>Ex. The sermon ... was quite innocent of meaning (John Wesley).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>innocents,</B> </I>(U.S.) the common bluet. <BR> <I>Ex. ... filling his hat with wild violets, sorrel, and the frail, azure innocents (Marion Harland).</I> adv. <B>innocently.</B> </DL>
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<B>innocuity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>innocuous quality; harmlessness. <BR> <I>Ex. Some vaccines have more innocuity and efficiency than others.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a harmless, insignificant act or occupation. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor said that smoking and eating too much are not the innocuities they seem to be.</I> </DL>
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<B>innocuous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not hurtful or injurious; harmless. <BR> <I>Ex. She took my innocuous remark as an insult. ... wit ... like summer lightning, lambent but innocuous (Edward M. Goulburn).</I> (SYN) inoffensive. adv. <B>innocuously.</B> noun <B>innocuousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>innominate, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> not named; unnamed; nameless; anonymous. <DD><I>noun </I> an innominate bone, artery, or vein. </DL>
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<B>innominate artery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artery arising from the arch of the aorta. It divides into the right carotid and subclavian arteries. </DL>
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<B>innominate bone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either one of the two bones forming the sides of the pelvis in man and other mammals, each consisting of three consolidated bones (the ilium, ischium, and pubis); hipbone; coxa. </DL>
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<B>innominate vein,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either one of the two veins formed by the junction of the subclavian and internal jugular veins. The innominate veins unite to form the superior vena cava. </DL>
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<B>innovate, </B>verb, <B>-vated,</B> <B>-vating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to make changes; bring in something new or new ways of doing things. <BR> <I>Ex. It is difficult to innovate when people prefer the old, familiar way of doing things. It were good ... that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly (Francis Bacon).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to introduce (something); bring in for the first time. <BR> <I>Ex. The scientist innovated new ways of research. Every moment alters what is done, And innovates some act till then unknown (John Dryden).</I> noun <B>innovator.</B> </DL>
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<B>innovation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a change made in the established way of doing things. <BR> <I>Ex. The new principal made many innovations. The scheme of a Colony revenue by British authority appeared therefore to the Americans in the light of a great innovation (Edmund Burke).</I> (SYN) novelty. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of making changes; bringing in new things or new ways of doing things. <BR> <I>Ex. Many people are opposed to innovation. Innovation is for showoffs and pioneers alike (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>innovational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with innovation. <DD><B> 2. </B>characterized by innovation. </DL>
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<B>innovative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to innovate; characterized by innovation. <BR> <I>Ex. Inventors are innovative people.</I> noun <B>innovativeness.</B> </DL>
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<B>innovatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by innovation; innovative. </DL>
<B>Inns of Court,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the four legal societies in London (Lincoln's Inn, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn) which have the exclusive privilege of calling students to the English bar, but instruction and examination for their students, formerly conducted by these societies, is now conducted by the Council of Legal Education. <DD><B> 2. </B>the four buildings which belong to these societies. </DL>
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<B>innuendo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-does,</B> verb, <B>-doed,</B> <B>-doing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an indirect hint or reference. (SYN) insinuation. <DD><B> 2. </B>an indirect suggestion meant to discredit a person. <BR> <I>Ex. The gossipy old woman spread scandal by innuendoes. Their original meanings have been lost beneath layers of innuendo and insult (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Law.) <DD><B> a. </B>a parenthetical explanation or clarification of what certain expressions refer to, especially of allegedly defamatory words in a libel suit. <DD><B> b. </B>the expression so explained or clarified. <DD><B> c. </B>(originally) a formula used to introduce such an explanation or clarification, meaning "namely," "that is to say," etc. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make an innuendo or innuendoes. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a lot of gesturing, posturing, and innuendoing (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to suggest by innuendo; hint at. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] would innuendo his own version of the story as dexterously as he could (R. S. Surtees).</I> </DL>
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<B>Innuit, </B>noun, pl. <B>-it</B> or <B>-its.</B> <B>=Inuit.</B></DL>
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<B>innumerable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> too many to count; very many; countless. <BR> <I>Ex. innumerable stars, innumerable troubles.</I> (SYN) numberless, myriad. noun <B>innumerableness.</B> adv. <B>innumerably.</B> </DL>
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<B>innumeracy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the inability to understand or use mathematics. </DL>
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<B>innumerate, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> unable to understand or use mathematics. <BR> <I>Ex. Of course, there are brilliant teachers whose pupils do not end up innumerate (New Scientist).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an innumerate person. <BR> <I>Ex. We now have innumerates the way we used to have illiterates (Norman Shrapnel).</I> </DL>
<B>innutrition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> lack of nutrition; failure of nourishment. </DL>
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<B>innutritious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> supplying little or no nourishment; not nutritious. </DL>
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<B>innyard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a yard around or next to an inn. </DL>
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<B>inobservance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>inattention; heedlessness. <DD><B> 2. </B>neglect or failure to observe a law, custom, promise, or other obligation; nonobservance. <BR> <I>Ex. inobservance of the Sabbath.</I> </DL>
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<B>inobservant, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=inattentive.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>not observant; not quick to notice. (SYN) unobserving. </DL>
<A NAME="inobtrusive">
<B>inobtrusive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not obtrusive; unobtrusive. </DL>
<A NAME="inoccupation">
<B>inoccupation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> lack of occupation. </DL>
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<B>inoceramus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any fossil bivalve mollusk of a group characteristic of the Cretaceous period. </DL>
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<B>inocula, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>inoculum.</B> </DL>
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<B>inoculability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being inoculable. </DL>
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<B>inoculable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can be inoculated. <DD><B> 2. </B>that can be infected or transmitted by inoculation. </DL>
