incur 
To run upon; impinge upon; run against or 
strike. 
He that is no longer affected with a benefit than it incur* 
the sense, and suffers not Itself to be disregarded, is far 
from being grateful!. Barrow, Works, I. viii. 
2. To encounter, as some undesirable or in- 
jurious consequence; become liable or subject 
to through one's own action; bring upon one's 
self: as, to incur liabilities. 
For so Actwon, by presuming far, 
Did, to our grief, incur a fatal doom. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 
I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness 
and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Par- 
liament of Love. Emerson, Love. 
Sweden was slow in incurring the resentment of Napo- 
leon. It i>"/ , ,/, Introd. to Inter. Law, App. 11., p. 407. 
H.t intrans. To enter; pass; occur; come 
to pass. 
If anything incurr to you of curious, . . . you will 
greately oblige that assembly of virtuosi [the Royal Soci- 
ety] in communicating any productions of the places you 
travell thro. Evelyn, To Mr. William London at Barbados. 
Light is discerned by itself, because by itself it incurrs 
Into the eye. South, Works, V. vii 
incurability (in-kur-a-bil'i-ti), n. [= P. inctira- 
liilitv = Pg. iiicurabilidade ; as incurable + -4ty: 
see -bility.] The state of being incurable. 
incurable (in-kur'a-bl), a. and . [< ME. incur- 
able, < OP. (also P.) incurable = Pr. Sp. incura- 
ble = Pg. incuravel = It. incurabile, < LL. incura- 
bilis, not curable, < in- priv. + curabilis, curable : 
see curable.'] I. a. 1. Not curable; beyond the 
power of skill or medicine : as, an incurable dis- 
ease. 
Your Absence, if it continue long, will prove to me like 
the Dust of Diamonds, which is incurable Poison. 
llnir.U, Letters, I. ii. 3. 
It is ... the last attempt that God uses to reclaim a 
people by, and if these Oansticks [fires] will not do, it is 
to be feared he looks upon the wounds as incurable. 
Stillinffjleet, Sermons, I. i. 
2. Not admitting correction: as, incurable evils. 
= Syn. Irremediable, remediless, hopeless, irreparable, 
incorrigible. 
II. n. A person diseased beyond the possi- 
bility of cure. 
If idiots and lunatics cannot be found, incurables may 
be taken into the hospital. Swift. 
incurableness (in-kur'a-bl-nes), n. Incurabil- 
ity. 
incurably (in-kur'a-bli), adv. So as to be in- 
curable; to an extent or degree that renders 
cure or remedy impossible ; irretrievably. 
We cannot know it is or is not, being incurably igno- 
rant Locke. 
incuriosity (in-kii-ri-os'i-ti), . [= P. incurio- 
si<<5 = It. incuriositA, < LL. incuriosita(t-)s, care- 
lessness^ L. incuriosus, careless : see incurious.] 
The state or character of being incurious ; want 
of curiosity; inattentiveuess ; indifference. 
But his [Pilate's] incuriosity or indifference, when truth 
was offered to be laid before him as a private man, . . . 
shews him in a light much less excusable. 
Warburtvn, Works, IX. L 
incurious (in-ku'ri-us), a. [= P. incurieux = 
Sp. Pg. It. incurioso, < L. incuriosus, careless, 
negligent, < in- priv. + curiosus, careful: see 
curious.] 1. Not curious; careless; negligent; 
indifferent. 
The gods look down, 
Incurious of themselves. 
Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, i. 
Of immortality the soul when well employed U incuri- 
i"i-. Emerson, Conduct of Life. 
His faint incurii)itft ease he nursed. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, IL 177. 
2. Not curious or striking ; deficient in interest. 
In confirmation of these truths, we may conclude this 
part of our subject with a not incurious anecdote. 
John Brown, An Estimate, etc., I. 67. 
It is no incurious part of the economy of nature that 
manure and high cultivation should banish those coarse 
hardy plants, and substitute the tiner grasses in their 
room, iu a scanty degree, which are commonly gone by 
November. Edinburgh Rev., CXLV. 196. 
incuriously (ia-ku'ri-us-li), adv. In an incuri- 
ous manner. 
incuriousness (in-ku'ri-us-nes), n. The quality 
of being incurious; incuriosity. 
incurrence (iu-kur'ens), H. [< inctirren(t) + 
-cc.] 1. The act of incurring, bringing on, 
or subjecting one's self to something: as, the 
inriirrriirr of guilt. 2. Incursion; entrance. 
Doi'irs. [Rare in both uses.] 
We should no more think of the Blessed Deity without 
the conceit of an infinite resplendence than we can open 
our eyes :it mwmilay without an //ir/mv/i.v :ind admission 
of an outward light /;/.. Hall, Works, V. 421. 
incurrent (iu-kur'ont), . [< L. iH 
ppr. of incurrere, run into or upon : see feMMT.] 
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Kunning inward; entrant: with reference to 
the place of entrance or inflow: as, an ///- 
rent orifice. 
Running down the middle of the triangular plate is the 
central string of tissue, the rachis, and at its end the in- 
current blood-vessel. liiol. Lab. nf Johns Hopkins, III. 39. 
incursion (iu-k6r'shon), n. [= P. incursion = 
8p. incursion = Pg. incursSo = It. incursione, < 
L. incursio(n-), a running against, onset, < in- 
currere, run against: see incur.] A running in 
or into something; an inroad or invasion. 
The Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a 
tala, or predatory incursion into the Christian territories. 
Irving, Granada, p. 7. 
Sins of dally incursion, and such aa human frailty is 
unavoidably liable to. South, Sermons. 
=8yn. Irruption, raid. 
incursive (in-ker'siv), a. [= P. ineursif, < L. in- 
cursus, pp. of incurrere, run in (see incur), + -ive.] 
Making incursions ; invading; aggressive, 
incurtaint ( in-ker'tan), v. t. Same as encurtain. 
incurvate (in-ker'vat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. '- 
curvated, ppr. incurrating. [< L. incurvatus, pp. 
of incurvare, bend in: see incurve."] To turn 
from a right line or straight course; curve; 
crook. 
Age doth not rectify, but incurrate our natures, turning 
bad dispositions into worser habits. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, L 42. 
incurvate (in-ker'vat), a. [< L. incurvatus, pp.: 
see the verb.] Curved inward or upward. 
incurvation (in-k6r-va'shon), n. [= F. incur- 
vation = It. incurvazione, t. L. incurratio(n-), a 
bending, < incurvare, bend: see incurve.] 1. 
The act of incurving or bending. 
He made use of acts of worship which God hath appro- 
priated, as iucurratiun and sacrifice. Stillingjteet. 
2. The state of being incurved or bent ; curva- 
ture, as of the spine ; crookedness. 
The first reflections of a crooked tree are not to straight- 
ness, but to a contrary incurvation. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), IL 262. 
incurvature (in-ker'vii-tur), . [= Sp. encor- 
radura = It. incurwttufd, incurvature, < ML. 
incurvatura, incurvature (applied to a bishop's 
staff); as incurvate + -are.] A curving or the 
state of being curved. 
The greater incurvature of the wind in rear than in 
front of hurricanes in the southern Indian Ocean U next 
considered. Nature, XXXVIII. 359. 
Specifically, In entom.: (a) The state of being curved in- 
ward. (6) A part or margin curved inward, or toward the 
median line. 
incurve (in-kerv'), t'. ; pret. and pp. incurved, 
ppr. incurring. [= Sp. encorvar = Pg. encur- 
rar, < L. incurvare. bend in, < in, in, + curvare, 
bend : see curve, v.] I. trans. To make crooked ; 
bend; curve; specifically, to cause to curve or 
bend inward: as, the incurred antennas of an 
insect. 
Yon hollow trunk, 
That with its hoary head incura'd salutes 
The passing wave. SomeroiUe, The Chase. 
II. intrans. To curve or bend inward. 
To find the direction of the storm-centre, we must know 
the incurring angle of the wind's spiral. Science, III. 42. 
incurvity (in-ker'vi-ti), n. [< L. incurv us, bent 
(< in, in, + curvus, Sent, curved : see curve, a.), 
+ -ity.] The state of being bent or crooked ; 
crookedness ; a bending inward. 
Being the hieroglyphlck of celerity, and swifter than 
other animals, men best expressed their (the dolphins ] 
velocity by incurrity, and under some figure of a bow. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 2. 
incus (ing'kus), n.; pi. incudes (ing'ku-dez). 
[L., an anvil, < incudere, forge with a hammer : 
see incuse.] In zool. and mint.: (a) One of the 
bones of the inner (middle) ear of a mammal: so 
named from its fancied resemblance to an an- 
vil. It is the middle one of the chain of bones, or ossicula 
auditus, the other two being the malleus and the stapes. 
The human incus strikingly resembles a bicuspid tooth ; 
it has a body and two processes, short and long, diverging 
from each other at nearly a right angle. The long pro- 
cess ends in a small globular head, theorbicuZaror lenticu- 
lar process, tipped with cartilage and articulated with the 
head of the stapes. The body of the incus articulates with 
the malleus. Both articulations are movable. The len- 
ticular process exists as a separate ossification in early life. 
In vertebrates below mammals the homologies of the in- 
cus are much disputed, and different bones or cartilages 
have been taken as its representative, especially those 
which constitute a proximal element of the nyoidean arch. 
Seeeori, and cut under tymjianic. (ft) In Botifera, the 
anvil or median piece of the trophi of a wheel- 
animalcule, upon which the mallei work. See 
malleus, ma.tlnx. 
incuse (in-ku//), v. t. ; pret. and pp. incused, 
ppr. iiu-iisini/. [< L. hicusus, pp. of incudere, 
forge with a hammer, lit. pound down, < in, 
on, + ctulere, strike, pound.] To impress by 
striking or stamping, as a coin. [Rare.] 
i. Reverse of coin of 
ALgina, with early incuse 
square. British Muse* 
um. 3. Reverse of coin 
of Phocts. with later in* 
cuse square, inclosing the 
type. British Museum. 
i Each coin size of the 
oriym.il. ) 
indart 
The back of this coin Is incused with a rudely-executed 
Impression of a lion's head. //. A. Humphreys. 
incuse (in-ku//), a. and n. [< L. incusus, pp. of 
incudere, forge with the hammer: see incuse, 
.] I. a. Hammered, stamped, or struck in; 
having a pattern impressed or stamped upon 
the surface. 
The coin has been driven Into the die, and not struck with 
it, and the incuse impression has been made before or after 
the other. Knight, Anc. Art and Myth. (187X p. 63. 
In some few Instances the types of two cities are com- 
bined on the same coin, in token of an alliance. AA art 
advanced, the incuse repetition fell into disuse, and a type 
in relief was substituted for it. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Arclucol., p. 407. 
The reverse type [of a coin] U a flaming torch in an in- 
cute square. /.,..,/.. Brit., XVII. 840. 
Incuse square, in numu., the Intaglio Impression or 
sinking produced on Greek coins 
by the punch or die from which 
they were struck. Such rude sink- 
ings constituted the sole "type" 
of one aide of many of the earliest 
Greek coins ; but later Greek coins 
have a design in relief placed with- 
in the Incuse square. The incuse 
square Is chiefly found on coins Is- 
sued before 400 B. C. 
II. ". An impression; a 
stamp, as that on a coin made 
by the surface upon which 
the object rests to be struck 
by the die. 
Antiquaries have supposed this 
incuse to be merely the impression 
of something put under the coin to 
make it receive the stroke of the die 
more steadily. 
Knighl, Anc. Art and Myth. 
[(1876X p. 63. 
incusst, v. t. [< L. incussus, 
pp. of incutere, strike upon : 
see incute. Cf. concuss, dis- 
cuss, percuss.] To strike. Halliwell. 
The first events are those which incuste a dauntlng- 
nesse or daring. Daniel, Hist Eng., p. 4. 
in custodia legis (in kus-to'di-a le'jis). [L.: 
I'M, in; custodia, abl. of custodia, custody; Iryia, 
gen. of lex, law: see custodia, custody, legal, lex.] 
In the custody of the law; taken into the charge 
of an officer of the court under its authority : 
said of property of which the court thus as- 
sumes charge pending litigation about it. 
incut (in'kut), a. Set in by oras if by cutting; 
specifically, in printing, inserted in a reserved 
space of the text instead of in the margin : as, 
incut notes at the sides of the pages in a book. 
incute t, '. t. [= It. incutere, < L. incutere, strike 
upon or into, inspire with,<w, in, on, + quatere, 
shake, strike.] Same as incuss. 
This doth incute and beat into our hearts the fear of 
God, which expelleth sin. Becon, Works (1843), p. 63. 
ind. An abbreviation (a) of indicative ; (6) of 
the Latin in dies, daily, every day, used in 
medical prescriptions. 
indagatet (in 'da-gat), r. t. [< L. indagatux, 
pp. of indagare (> It. indagare = Sp. Pg. inda- 
gar), trace out, track, investigate.] To seek or 
search out. Bailey. 
indagationt (in-da-ga'shqn), n. [= Sp. indaga- 
cion = Pg. indagticSo = It. indagazione, < L. in- 
dagatio(n-), a searching, investigation, < inda- 
aare, search: see indagate.] The act of search- 
ing; search; inquiry; examination. 
In her [the soul's] indagations ofttimes new scents put 
her by. B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
Chymists seem not to have taken notice of what impor- 
tance such experiments may be in the indagalion of the 
nature, and especially of the number of the elementa. 
Boyle, Works, 1. 483. 
indagativet (in'da-ga-tiy), a. [< indagate + 
-ire.] Searching or inclined to search into or 
after; investigating. 
The church might not be ambitious or indagatioe of 
such employment. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835). II. 244. 
indagatort (in'da-ga-tor), n. [= Sp. Pg. inda- 
<jador= It. indagatore, < L. indagator, < indn- 
gare, search : see indagate.] A searcher; one 
who seeks or inquires with diligence. 
Awake, ye curious indagatort, fond 
Of knowing all but what avails yon known. 
Young, Night Thought*, v. 
indagatoryt (in'da-ga-to-ri), a. [< indagate + 
-ory7\ Pertaining to indication Indagatory 
suspension of opinion, reserve of definitive judgment 
with the intention of further inquiry, 
indamaget, r. t. An obsolete form of endamage. 
indangert, - . t. An obsolete form of endanyrr. 
indart (in-dart'), r. t. [Formerly also endart; 
< in-2 + dart.] To dart inward.' 
But no more deep will I endart mine eye 
Than your consent Rives strength to make it fly. 
Shot., R.and J.,u3. 
