IPage 99
- English Word In Definition With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
- English Word In Definition With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
- English Word In Definition With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
- English Word In Definition Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
- English Word In Definition With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
- English Word In Definition One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.
- English Word In Definition A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
- English Word In Definition To inclose; to take in; to harvest.
- English Word In and an Definition Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
- English Word In antis Definition Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. See Anta.
- English Word In commendam Definition See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership.
- English Word In esse Definition In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.
- English Word In loco Definition In the place; in the proper or natural place.
- English Word In posse Definition In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.
- English Word In situ Definition In its natural position or place; -- said of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.
- English Word In transitu Definition In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.
- English Word In vacuo Definition In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
- English Word In- Definition A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.
- English Word In- Definition An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.
- English Word In-and-in Definition An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.