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  • English Word Incertitude Definition Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.
  • English Word Incertum Definition Doubtful; not of definite form.
  • English Word Incessable Definition Unceasing; continual.
  • English Word Incessancy Definition The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.
  • English Word Incessant Definition Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.
  • English Word Incessantly Definition Unceasingly; continually.
  • English Word Incession Definition Motion on foot; progress in walking.
  • English Word Incest Definition The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
  • English Word Incesttuous Definition Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection.
  • English Word Inch Definition An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.
  • English Word Inch Definition 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.
  • English Word Inch Definition A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.
  • English Word Inch Definition To drive by inches, or small degrees.
  • English Word Inch Definition To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
  • English Word Inch Definition To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.
  • English Word Inch Definition Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.
  • English Word Inchamber Definition To lodge in a chamber.
  • English Word Inchambered Definition of Inchamber
  • English Word Inchambering Definition of Inchamber
  • English Word Inchangeability Definition Unchangeableness.
  • English Word Inchant Definition See Enchant.
  • English Word Incharitable Definition Uncharitable; unfeeling.
  • English Word Incharity Definition Want of charity.
  • English Word Inchase Definition See Enchase.
  • English Word Inchastity Definition Unchastity.
  • English Word Inched Definition of Inch
  • English Word Inched Definition Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.
  • English Word Inchest Definition To put into a chest.
  • English Word Inching Definition of Inch
  • English Word Inchipin Definition See Inchpin.