Index of English words, starting with "in"

(1) - Incrust (v. t.) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
(2) - Incrust (v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.

(1) - Incrustation (n.) Anything inlaid or imbedded.
(2) - Incrustation (n.) A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
(3) - Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
(4) - Incrustation (n.) The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

(1) - Incubate (v. i. & t.) To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

(1) - Incubation (n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
(2) - Incubation (n.) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
(3) - Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.

(1) - Incubator (n.) That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.