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n. (Min.) See Corrundum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + oxygen + indol. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name. [ 1913 Webster ]

or /mhw>, n. [ Literally, the window of a sleeping apartment. F. dormir to sleep. See Dormant, a. & n. ] (Arch.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a window at a business establishment, such as a bank or restaurant, where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles; as, to cash a check at the drive-in window of the bank. [ PJC ]

n. A tall Australian timber tree (Flindersia australis) yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc.
Syn. -- native beech, flindosy, Flindersia australis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Hindustani. See Hindoostanee.
Syn. -- Hindustani, Hindoostani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n.; pl. Hindoos it>or Hindus. [ Per. Hindū, fr. Hind, Hindūstān, India. Cf. Indian. ] A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

{ or }. A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:

 Baisakh . . . . . . . . . . April-May Jeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . May-June Asarh . . . . . . . . . . . . June-July Sawan (Sarawan) . . . . . . . July-Aug. Bhadon . . . . . . . . . . . Aug.-Sept. Asin (Kuar). . . . . . . . . . Sept.-Oct. Katik (Kartik) . . . . . . . . Oct.-Nov. Aghan . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov.-Dec. Pus . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec.-Jan. Magh . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan.-Feb. Phagun (Phalgun) . . . . . . . Feb.-March Chait . . . . . . . . . . . . March-April 

{ } n. The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindus; Brahmanism.

{ } a. [ Hind. Hindūstānī an Indian, fr. Hind. and Per. Hindūstān India. ] Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. -- n. The language of Hindustan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From L. Indus East Indian. ] A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indigo + aniline. ] (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial blue dyes, in appearance resembling indigo, for which they are often used as substitutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the Indo-Aryans, or designating, or of, the Aryan languages of India. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A member of one of the native races of India of Aryan speech and blood, characterized by tall stature, dolichocephaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Indo- + Briton. ] A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ Indo- + Chinese. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pert. to the Mongoloid races of India, esp. Farther India, or designating, or of, their languages.

Tradition and comparative philology agree in pointing to northwestern China, between the upper courses of the Yang-tsekiang and of the Ho-ang-ho, as the original home of the Indo-Chinese race. Census of India, 1901. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state of being indocible; indocibleness; indocility. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indocibilis. See In- not, and Docible. ] Incapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable; unteachable; indocile. Bp. Hall. -- In*doc"i*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. indocilis: cf. F. indocile. See In- not, and Docile. ] Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. indocilitas: cf. F. indocilité. ] The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Indoctrinated p. pr. & vb. n. Indoctrinating. ] [ Pref. in- in + L. doctrina doctrine: cf. F. endoctriner. ] 1. To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to teach; -- often followed by in. [ 1913 Webster ]

A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To instruct in, or imbue with, doctrines, principles or ideologies, especially from a specific point of view which may be partisan or biased; to strongly press one's own point of view upon. [ PJC ]

n. The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Indo- + English. ] Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo-European or Aryan family. [ 1913 Webster ]

The common origin of the Indo-European nations. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A member of one of the Caucasian races of Europe or India speaking an Indo-European language.

Professor Otto Schrader . . . considers that the oldest probable domicile of the Indo-Europeans is to be sought for on the common borderland of Asia and of Europe, -- in the steppe country of southern Russia. Census of India, 1901. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Indigo + -gen. ] (Chem.) A complex, nitrogenous radical, C8H5NO, regarded as the essential nucleus of indigo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Any one of the derivatives of indogen, which contain that group as a nucleus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Indo- + Germanic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indigo + -ol of phenol. ] (Chem., Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction; chemically, it is 2, 3-benzopyrrole, a bicyclic heterocyclic compound, having a benzene ring fused to a pyrrole ring. It is also formed from proteinaceous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora. It is produced in rich growth media by the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Chem., Bot.) A plant hormone (C10H9NO2) recognized as the principle growth regulator in higher plants; called also heteroauxin. Abbreviated IAA. Chemically it is 1H-indole-3-acetic acid. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or lack of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

As there is a great truth wrapped up in “diligence, ” what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word “indolence”! This is from “in” and “doleo, ” not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indolence. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + L. dolens, -entis, p. pr. of dolere to feel pain: cf. F. indolent. See Dolorous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. [ 1913 Webster ]

To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indolent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calm and serene you indolently sit. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. Cf. Adolescence. ] Natural disposition; natural quality or abilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Indol. ] (Chem.) A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indomabilis; pref. in- not + domabilis tamable. ] Indomitable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem., Med.) A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic substance (C19H16ClNO4) prepared synthetically and used for the treatment of pain and arthritis. It blocks prostaglandin biosynthesis. Chemically, it is 1-(4-chlorobenzoyl)-5-methoxy-2-methyl-1H-indole-3-acetic acid. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. indomitabilis; pref. in- not + domitare, intens. fr. domare to tame. See Tame. ] Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indomitus. ] Not tamed; untamed; savage; wild. [ Obs. ] J. Salkeld. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. indomptable, L. indomitabilis. ] Indomitable. [ Obs. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Indo- + Gr. &unr_; island. ] Of or pertaining to Indonesia or Indonesians. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A member of a race forming the chief pre-Malay population of the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the
Indonesian race. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The term Indonesian, introduced by Logan to designate the light-colored non-Malay inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago, is now used as a convenient collective name for all the peoples of Malaysia and Polynesia who are neither Malay nor Papuans, but of Caucasic type. . . . The true Indonesians are of tall stature (5 ft. 10 in.), muscular frame, rather oval features, high, open forehead, large straight or curved nose, large full eyes always horizontal and with no trace of the third lid, light brown complexion (cinnamon or ruddy brown), long black hair, not lank but often slightly curled or wavy, skull generally brachycephalous like that of the melanochroic European. A. H. Keane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The Indonesians [ of the Philippines ], with the tribal population of some 251, 200, live almost exclusively on the great island of Mindanao. They are not only physically superior to the Negritos, but to the peoples of the Malayan race as well, and are, as a rule, quite intelligent. Rep. Phil. Com. , 1902. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A native or inhabitant of Indonesia. [ PJC ]

a. Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Within the house; -- sometimes separated, in doors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indigo + phenol. ] (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial blue dyestuffs, resembling indigo in appearance, and obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone. Simple indophenol proper, the parent compound of the dye series, is a quinonimine derivative with the formula C12H9NO2. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]