Part 5681

<blockquote>Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance <b>inchoate</b>. <i>Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inchoate</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>In"cho*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To begin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Inchoation</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>In`cho*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>inchoatio</ets>, <ets>incohatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>Act of beginning; commencement; inception.</def>

<blockquote>The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first <b>inchoation</b> of them. <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is now in actual progress, from the rudest <b>inchoation</b> to the most elaborate finishing. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inchoative</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>In*cho"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>inchoativus</ets>, <ets>incohativus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>inchoatif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; <as>as, an <ex>inchoative</ex> verb</as>.</def> "Some <i>inchoative</i> or imperfect rays." <i>W. Montagu</i>. -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>An inchoative verb. See <er>Inceptive</er>.</def></def2>

<h1>Inchpin</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>Inch"pin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Written also <ets>inchipin</ets>, <ets>inche-pinne</ets>, <ets>inne-pinne</ets>.]</ety> <ety>[Cf. Gael. <ets>inne</ets>, <ets>innidh</ets>, bowel, entrail.]</ety> <def>The sweetbread of a deer.</def>

<i>Cotgrave.</i>

<h1>Inchworm</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>Inch"worm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The larva of any geometrid moth. See <er>Geometrid</er>.</def>

<h1>Incicurable</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>In*cic"u*ra*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>incicur</ets> not tame; pref. <ets>in-</ets> not + <ets>cicur</ets> name.]</ety> <def>Untamable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Incide</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>In*cide"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>incidere</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>caedere</ets> to cut. See <er>Concise</er>, and cf. <er>Incise</er>.]</ety> <def>To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<h1>Incidence</h1> <Xpage=743>

<hw>In"ci*dence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>incidence</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.</def>

<blockquote>In equal <b>incidences</b> there is a considerable inequality of refractions. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Angle of incidence</col>, <cd>the angle which a ray of light, or the line of incidence of a body, falling on any surface, makes with a perpendicular to that surface; also formerly, the complement of this angle.</cd> -- <col>Line of incidence</col>, <cd>the line in the direction of which a surface is struck by a body, ray of light, and the like.</cd></cs>

<h1>Incidency</h1> <Xpage=743>