INHABILE
INHAB'ILE, adjective [Latin inhabilis; in and habilis, apt, fit.]1. Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; as inhabile matter.2. Unskilled; unready; unqualified; used of persons...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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INHABILITY
INHABIL'ITY, noun [from inhabile.] Unaptness; unfitness; want of skill. [Little used. See Inability.]
INHABIT
INHAB'IT, verb transitive [Latin inhabito; in and habito, to dwell.]To live or dwell in; to occupy as a place of settled residence. Wild beasts inhabit the forest; fishes inhabi...
INHABITABLE
INHAB'ITABLE, adjective [from inhabit.] Habitable; that may be inhabited; capable of affording habitation to animals. The stars may be inhabitable worlds. Some regions of the ea...
INHABITANCE
INHAB'ITANCE, noun Residence of dwellers. [Little used.]
INHABITANCY
INHAB'ITANCY, noun Residence; habitancy; permanent or legal residence in a town, city or parish; or the domiciliation which the law required to entitle a pauper to demand suppor...
INHABITANT
INHAB'ITANT, noun A dweller; one who dwells or resides permanently in a place, or who has a fixed residence, as distinguished from an occasional lodger or visitor; as the inhabi...
INHABITATION
INHABITA'TION, noun The act of inhabiting, or state of being inhabited.1. Abode; place of dwelling.2. Population; whole mass of inhabitants.[This word is little use.]
INHABITED
INHAB'ITED, participle passive Occupied by inhabitants, human or irrational.
INHABITER
INHAB'ITER, noun One who inhabits; a dweller; an inhabitant.
INHABITING
INHAB'ITING, participle present tense Dwelling in; occupying as a settled or permanent inhabitant; residing in.
INHABITRESS
INHAB'ITRESS, noun A female inhabitant.
INHALE
INHA'LE, verb transitive [Latin inhalo; in and halo, to breathe.]To draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; opposed to exhale and expire.Martin was walking forth to ...
INHALED
INHA'LED, participle passive Drawn into the lungs.
INHALER
INHA'LER, noun One who inhales.1. In medicine, a machine for breathing or drawing warm steam into the lungs, as a remedy for coughs and catarrhal complaints.
INHALING
INHA'LING, participle present tense Drawing into the lungs; breathing.
INHARMONIC
INHARMON'ICINHARMON'ICAL, adjective Unharmonious; discordant.
INHARMONICAL
INHARMON'ICAL, a. Unharmonious; discordant.
INHARMONIOUS
INHARMO'NIOUS, adjective [in and harmonious.]Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant.
INHARMONIOUSLY
INHARMO'NIOUSLY, adverb Without harmony; discordantly.
INHERE
INHE'RE, verb intransitive [Latin inhoereo; in and hoereo, to hang.]To exist or be fixed in something else; as, colors inhere in cloth; a dart inheres in the flesh.
INHERENCE
INHE'RENCE, noun Existence in something; a fixed state of being in another body or substance.
INHERENT
INHE'RENT, adjective Existing in something else, so as to be inseparable from it.Inherent baseness.1. Innate; naturally pertaining to; as the inherent qualities of the magnet; t...
INHERENTLY
INHE'RENTLY, adverb By inherence.
INHERING
INHE'RING, participle present tense Existing or fixed in something else.
INHERIT
INHER'IT, verb transitive [Latin hoeres, an heir. See Heir.]1. To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by succession, as the representative of the former possessor; to rece...
INHERITABLE
INHER'ITABLE, adjective That may be inherited; transmissible or descendible from the ancestor to the heir by course of law; as an inheritable estate or title.1. That may be tran...