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Parenthetical
Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark.
Good-bye
Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.
Farewell
Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare y..
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Quits
See the Note under Quit, a.
Ha
An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an ..
Foist
A light and fast-sailing ship.
Medial
Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
Hello
See Halloo.
Adieu
Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
Pish
An exclamation of contempt.
Greeting
of Greet
Intromission
The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.
Invasion
The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Interlock
To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Heyday
An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
Intrusion
The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
Inroad
The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.
Amen
An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, ver..
Intromit
To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
Whist
Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
Perfuse
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
Exclamation
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indi..
Grafting
of Graft
Inoculation
The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
Interpolation
The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
Intromit
To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.
Interjaculate
To ejaculate parenthetically.
Interject
To throw in between; to insert; to interpose.
Intrude
To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of an..
Encore
Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
Intervening
of Intervene
Median
Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
Bo
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
Hollo
Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.
Penetrate
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
Observation
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Dickens
The devil.
Interposition
The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
Shoo
Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.
Hallelujah
Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
Question
The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
Saying
of Say
Allegation
The act of alleging or positively asserting.
Penetration
The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
Interjacent
Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles.
Incursion
A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid.
Interjection
The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
Parenthesis
A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved l..
Disjunctive
Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
Speak
To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Graft
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
Trespassing
of Trespass
Infringement
The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
Exclaim
To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder o..
Influx
The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light.
Aside
On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
Middle
Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of mid..
Blurt
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
Episode
A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, b..
Refer
To carry or send back.
Muse
A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
Introduce
To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.
Fiddledeedee
An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
Suffuse
To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
Perfusion
The act of perfusing.
Fudge
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
Inject
To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.
Hurrah
Alt. of Hurra
Declaration
The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a de..
Sentence
Sense; meaning; significance.
Infusion
The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.
Parenthetic
Alt. of Parenthetical
Interpolate
To renew; to carry on with intermission.
Enter
To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters t..
Scat
Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
Episodic
Alt. of Episodical
Comment
To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotatio..
Intervention
The act of intervening; interposition.
Impingement
The act of impinging.
Opine
To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.
Pooh
Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
Assertion
The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
Interloping
of Interlope
Implantation
The act or process of implantating.
Injection
The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aeriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.
Insinuate
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
Introduction
The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.
Remark
To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.
Utterance
The act of uttering.
Address
To aim; to direct.
Observe
To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or commands; to observe civility.
Irruption
A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea.
Intermediate
Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.
Hoo
See Ho.
Entrance
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an ..
Reflect
To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
Interruption
The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
Interference
The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
Statement
The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
Particle
A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.
Encroachment
The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.
Pronouncement
The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.
Subjoinder
An additional remark.
Tush
An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.
Reflection
The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
Dictum
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Trespass
To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
Infiltration
The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.
Say
Saw.
Thought
of Think
Expression
The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
Note
To butt; to push with the horns.
Position
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
Inoculate
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
Medium
That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
Infix
To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.
Insertion
The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.
Infuse
To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
Insert
To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a compos..
Crack
To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
Implant
To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.
Affirmation
Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
Insinuation
The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
Transplant
To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
Mention
A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
Admit
To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to ..
Salve
Hail!
Imposition
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
Mean
To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
Answer
To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
Word
The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; ..
Intermediary
Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project.
Broach
A spit.
Phrase
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
Intervene
To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
Interpose
To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
Conjunction
The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
Break
To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
