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  • English Word Industries Definition of Industry
  • English Word Industrious Definition Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor.
  • English Word Industrious Definition Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim; as, he was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious mischief maker.
  • English Word Industry Definition Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
  • English Word Industry Definition Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
  • English Word Industry Definition Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
  • English Word Indutive Definition Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.
  • English Word Induviae Definition Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.
  • English Word Induviate Definition Covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree.
  • English Word Indwell Definition To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.
  • English Word Indweller Definition An inhabitant.
  • English Word Indwelling Definition of Indwell
  • English Word Indwelling Definition Residence within, as in the heart.
  • English Word Indwelt Definition of Indwell
  • English Word Inearth Definition To inter.
  • English Word Inebriant Definition Intoxicating.
  • English Word Inebriant Definition Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant.
  • English Word Inebriate Definition To make drunk; to intoxicate.
  • English Word Inebriate Definition Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy.
  • English Word Inebriate Definition To become drunk.
  • English Word Inebriate Definition Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied.
  • English Word Inebriate Definition One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum fro inebriates.
  • English Word Inebriated Definition of Inebriate
  • English Word Inebriating Definition of Inebriate
  • English Word Inebriation Definition The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.
  • English Word Inebriety Definition Drunkenness; inebriation.
  • English Word Inebrious Definition Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating.
  • English Word Inedited Definition Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript.
  • English Word Inee Definition An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye.
  • English Word Ineffability Definition The quality or state of being ineffable; ineffableness; unspeakableness.