Incavated - Incident

You . . . incautious tread
On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
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His rhetorical expressions may easily captivate any incautious reader. Keill.

Syn. -- Unwary; indiscreet; inconsiderate; imprudent; impolitic; careless; heedless; thoughtless.

-- Incautiously, adv. -- Incautiousness, n.
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Incavated (ĭnkȧvātĕd), a. [L. incavatus, p. p. of incavare to make hollow: pref in- in + cavare to hollow out, fr. cavus hollow.] Made hollow; bent round or in.
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Incavation (ĭnkȧvāshŭn), n. Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an excavation; a depression.
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Incaved (ĭnkāvd), a. [Pref. in- in + cave. Cf. , .] Inclosed in a cave.
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Incaverned (ĭnkăvẽrnd), a. Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton.
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Incedingly (ĭnsēdĭngl�), adv. [L. incedere to walk majestically.] Majestically. [R.] C. Bronté.
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Incelebrity (?), n. Lack of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] Coleridge.
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Incend (?), v. t. [L. incendere, incensum, to kindle, burn. See to inflame.] To inflame; to excite. [Obs.] Marston.
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Incendiarism (?), n. [From .] The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.
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Incendiary (?; 277), n.; pl. Incendiaries (#). [L. incendiarius: cf. F. incendiaire. See to inflame.]
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1. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
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2. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
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Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.
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Incendiary, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See to inflame.]
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1. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
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2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. Paley.
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Coloq. Incendiary device , a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb. -- Coloq. Incendiary shell , a bombshell. See , 4.
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Incendious (?), a. [L. incendiosus burning, hot.] Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory. [Obs.] Bacon. -- Incendiously, adv. [Obs.]
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Incensant (?), a. [See to anger.] (Her.) A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.
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Incensation (?), n. (R. C. Ch.) The offering of incense. [R.] Encyc. Brit.
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Incense (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incensed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Incensing.] [L. incensus, p. p. of incendere; pref. in- in + root of candere to glow. See .]
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1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.]
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Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense
Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.
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2. To inflame with anger; to enrage; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
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The people are incensed him. Shak.

Syn. -- To enrage; exasperate; provoke; anger; irritate; heat; fire; instigate.
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Incense (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incensed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Incensing.] [LL. incensare: cf. F. encenser. See , n.]
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1. To offer incense to. See . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. To perfume with, or as with, incense. “Incensed with wanton sweets.” Marston.
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Incense (?), n. [OE. encens, F. encens, L. incensum, fr. incensus, p. p. of incendere to burn. See to inflame.]
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1. The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
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A thick cloud of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11.
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2. The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
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Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon. Lev. x. 1.
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3. Also used figuratively.
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Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride,
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Gray.
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Coloq. Incense tree , the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree. -- Coloq. Incense wood , the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.
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Incense-breathing (?), a. Breathing or exhaling incense. “Incense-breathing morn.” Gray.
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Incensed (?), a. 1. Angered; enraged.
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2. (Her.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.
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Incensement (?), n. Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
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Incenser (?), n. One who instigates or incites.
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Incension (?), n. [L. incensio. See to inflame.] The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire. Bacon.
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Incensive (?), a. Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
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Incensor (?), n. [L.] A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.
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Incensory (?; 277), n.; pl. Incensories (#). [LL. incensorium: cf. F. encensoir. See 2d , and cf. .] The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] Evelyn.
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Incensurable (?; 135), a. [Pref. in- not + censurable: cf. F. incensurable.] Not censurable. Dr. T. Dwight. -- Incensurably, adv.
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Incenter (?), n. (Geom.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
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Incentive (?), a. [L. incentivus, from incinere to strike up or set the tune; pref. in- + canere to sing. See , .]
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1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
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Competency is the most incentive to industry. Dr. H. More.
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2. Serving to kindle or set on fire. [R.]
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Part incentive reed
Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire. Milton.
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Incentive, n. [L. incentivum.] That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
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The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it. South.

Syn. -- Motive; spur; stimulus; incitement; encouragement; inducement; influence.
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Incentively, adv. Incitingly; encouragingly.
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Inception (?), n. [L. inceptio, fr. incipere to begin; pref. in- in + capere to take. See .]
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1. Beginning; commencement; initiation. Bacon.
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Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. Rawle.
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2. Reception; a taking in. [R.] Poe.
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Inceptive (?), a. Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. -- Inceptively, adv.
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Inceptive, n. An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
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Inceptor (?), n. [L.] 1. A beginner; one in the rudiments. Johnson.
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2. One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university. Walton.
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Inceration (?), n. [L. incerare to smear with wax; pref. in- in + cerare to wax, fr. cera wax: cf. F. incération.] The act of smearing or covering with wax. B. Jonson.
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Incerative (?), a. Cleaving or sticking like wax. Cotgrave.
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Incertain (?), n. [Pref. in- not + certain: cf. F. incertain, L. incertus. See .] Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- Incertainly, adv.
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Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.
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Incertainty (?), n. Uncertainty. [Obs.] Shak.
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Incertitude (?), n. [Cf. F. incertitude, LL. incertitudo, fr. L. incertus. See .] Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.
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The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland.
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He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor.
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Incertum (?), a. Doubtful; not of definite form.
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Coloq. Opus incertum (Anc. Arch.), a kind of masonry employed in building walls, in which the stones were not squared nor laid in courses; rubblework.
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Incessable (?), a. [L. incessabilis; pref. in- not + cessare to cease.] Unceasing; continual. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Incessably, adv. [Obs.]
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Incessancy (?), n. [From .] The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness. Dr. T. Dwight.
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Incessant (?), a. [L. incessans, -antis; pref. in- not + cessare to cease: cf. F. incessant. See .] Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.
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Against the castle gate,
. . . Which with incessant force and endless hate,
They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

Syn. -- Unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; unremitting; ceaseless; continual; constant; perpetual.
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Incessantly, adv. Unceasingly; continually. Shak.
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Incession (?), n. [L. incedere, incessum, to walk.] Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.]
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The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.
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Incest (?), n. [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity, incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste. See .] The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law; broadly, sexual relations between closely related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer. Shak.
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Coloq. Spiritual incest . (Eccl. Law) (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
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Incesttuous (?; 135), a. [L. incestuosus: cf. F. incestueux.] 1. Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, incest; as, an incestuous person or connection. Shak.
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Ere you reach to this incestuous love,
You must divine and human rights remove. Dryden.

2. resembling incest; between people or groups so closely related as to make such activity improper or unethical; as, an incestuous coziness between the management of the company and its union; an incestuous relationship between the salesman and the purchasing manager.
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-- Incesttuously, adv. -- Incesttuousness, n.
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Inch (ĭnch), n. [Gael. inis.] An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. [Scot.]
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Inch, n. [OE. inche, unche, AS. ynce, L. uncia the twelfth part, inch, ounce. See a weight.]
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1. A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.
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12 seconds ('') make 1 inch or prime. 12 inches or primes (') make 1 foot. B. Greenleaf.
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☞ The meter, the accepted scientific standard of length, equals 39.37 inches; the inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters. See , and .
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2. A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment; also used metaphorically of minor concessins in bargaining; as, he won't give an inch; give him an inch and he'll take a mile.
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Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch. Shak.
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Coloq. By inches , by slow degrees, gradually. -- Coloq. Inch of candle . See under . -- Coloq. Inches of pressure , usually, the pressure indicated by so many inches of a mercury column, as on a steam gauge. -- Coloq. Inch of water . See under . -- Coloq. Miner's inch , (Hydraulic Mining), a unit for the measurement of water. See Inch of water, under .
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Inch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inching.]
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1. To drive by inches, or small degrees. [R.]
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He gets too far into the soldier's grace
And inches out my master. Dryden.
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2. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. [R.]
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Inch, v. i. To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly; as, to inch forward.
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With slow paces measures back the field,
And inches to the walls. Dryden.
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Inch, a. Measuring an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.
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Coloq. Inch stuff , boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.
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Inchamber (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inchambered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inchambering.] [Pref. in- in + chamber: cf. OF. enchambrer.] To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.
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Inchangeability (?), n. Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.
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Inchant (?), v. t. See .
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Incharitable (?), a. [Cf. F. incharitable.] Uncharitable; unfeeling. [Obs.] Shak.
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Incharity (?), n. [Cf. F. incharité.] Lack of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.
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Inchase (?), v. t. See .
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Inchastity (?), n. [Pref. in- not + chastity: cf. F. inchasteté.] Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.
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Inched (?), a. Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. Shak.
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Inchest (?), v. t. To put into a chest.
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in-chief postnominal adj. a suffix signifying the head of a staff; as, editor-in-chief. [combining form]
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Inchipin (?), n. See .
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Inchmeal (?), n. [See a part, and cf. .] A piece an inch long.
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Coloq. By inchmeal , by small degrees; by inches. Shak.
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Inchmeal, adv. Little by little; gradually.
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Inchoate (?), a. [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p. of incohare to begin.] Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- Inchoately, adv.
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Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
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Inchoate (?), v. t. To begin. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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Inchoation (?), n. [L. inchoatio, incohatio.] Act of beginning; commencement; inception.
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The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale.
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It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor.
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Inchoative (?; 277), a. [L. inchoativus, incohativus: cf. F. inchoatif.] Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. “Some inchoative or imperfect rays.” W. Montagu. -- n. An inchoative verb. See .
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Inchon prop. n. The name of a town in Korea and of a battle in the Korean War (1950), in which United Nations forces made an amphibious landing at Inchon, a harbor on the west coast of Korea.
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Inchpin (?), n. [Written also inchipin, inche-pinne, inne-pinne.] [Cf. Gael. inne, innidh, bowel, entrail.] The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave.
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Inchworm (?), n. (Zoöl.) The larva of any geometrid moth. It progresses forward by first bringing the rear end of the body forward, forming a loop, then moving the front part of the body; called also measuring worm, measuringworm, spanner, and looper. See .
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Incicurable (?), a. [L. incicur not tame; pref. in- not + cicur name.] Untamable. [R.]
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Incide (?), v. t. [L. incidere; pref. in- in + caedere to cut. See , and cf. .] To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.
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Incidence (?), n. [Cf. F. incidence.]
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1. A falling on or upon; an incident; an event; an occurrence. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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2. (Physics) The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.
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In equal incidences there is a considerable inequality of refractions. Sir I. Newton.
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3. The rate or ratio at which something occurs; as, the incidence of murder in Los Angeles; the incidence of cancer in men over 50.
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Coloq. Angle of incidence , 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. -- Coloq. Line of incidence , the line in the direction of which a surface is struck by a body, ray of light, and the like.
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Incidency (?), n. Incidence. [Obs.] Shak.
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Incident (?), a. [L. incidens, -entis, p. pr. & of incidere to fall into or upon; pref. in- in, on + cadere to fall: cf. F. incident. See .]
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1. Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
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2. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
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As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered. Hooker.
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3. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
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All chances incident to man's frail life. Milton.
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The studies incident to his profession. Milward.
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4. (Law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
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Coloq. Incident proposition (Logic), a proposition subordinate to another, and introduced by who, which, whose, whom, etc.; as, Julius, whose surname was Cæsar, overcame Pompey. I. Watts.
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Incident, n. [Cf. F. incident.] 1. That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
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