| Indical |
a. |
Indexical. |
| Indican |
n. |
A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo. |
| Indican |
n. |
An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin. |
| Indicant |
a. |
Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating. |
| Indicant |
n. |
That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease. |
| Indicate |
v. t. |
To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. |
| Indicate |
v. t. |
To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. |
| Indicate |
v. t. |
To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator. |
| Indicated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Indicate |
| Indicated |
a. |
Shown; denoted; registered; measured. |
| Indicating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Indicate |
| Indication |
n. |
Act of pointing out or indicating. |
| Indication |
n. |
That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence. |
| Indication |
n. |
Discovery made; information. |
| Indication |
n. |
Explanation; display. |
| Indication |
n. |
Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies. |
| Indicative |
a. |
Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. |
| Indicative |
a. |
Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. |
| Indicative |
n. |
The indicative mood. |
| Indicatively |
adv. |
In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify. |
| Indicator |
n. |
One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car. |
| Indicator |
n. |
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part |
| Indicator |
n. |
An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below). |
| Indicator |
n. |
A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc. |
| Indicator |
n. |
The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer. |
| Indicator |
n. |
Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey. |
| Indicator |
n. |
That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis. |
| Indicatory |
a. |
Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying. |
| Indicatrix |
n. |
A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic. |
| Indicavit |
n. |
A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts. |
| Indice |
n. |
Index; indication. |
| Indices |
pl. |
of Index |
| indices |
pl. |
of Index |
| Indices |
n. pl. |
See Index. |
| Indicia |
n. pl. |
Discriminating marks; signs; tokens; indications; appearances. |
| Indicible |
a. |
Unspeakable. |
| Indicolite |
n. |
A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color. |
| Indict |
v. t. |
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. |
| Indict |
v. t. |
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. |
| Indict |
v. t. |
To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach. |
| Indictable |
a. |
Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense. |
| Indicted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Indict |
| Indictee |
n. |
A person indicted. |
| Indicter |
n. |
One who indicts. |
| Indicting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Indict |
| Indiction |
n. |
Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. |
| Indiction |
n. |
A cycle of fifteen years. |
| Indictive |
a. |
Proclaimed; declared; public. |
| Indictment |
n. |
The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted. |
| Indictment |
n. |
The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury. |
| Indictment |
n. |
An accusation in general; a formal accusation. |
| Indictor |
n. |
One who indicts. |
