Indigo-plant (Indigofeya tinctoria). 
a, flower; , fruit. 
indigometry 
method of determining the coloring power of 
indigo. 
indigo-mill (in'di-go-mil), n. A mill for grind- 
ing indigo into a paste. It is a quadrangular tank 
with semi-cylindrical bottom, having two lids so arranged 
as to leave between their inner margins a parallel-sided 
opening. A set of six iron rollers pivoted to a swinging 
frame operate upon the indigo at the bottom of the tank, 
the frame being caused to oscillate by a bar attached to it 
and extending upward through the opening between the 
lids, the bar being pivoted to a support at the upper end 
and actuated by a crank-mechanism. The paste when suffi- 
ciently triturated is drawn off through a stop-cock. 
indigo-plant (in'di-go-plant), n. A plant of 
the genus Indigofera, from which indigo is 
obtained. The 
species most com- 
monly cultivated 
under this name is 
/. tinctoria, a na- 
tive of the East In- 
dies and other parts 
of Asia, and grown 
in many parts of Af- 
rica and America. 
It is a shrubby plant 
about 3 or 4 feet 
high, with narrow 
pinnate leaves and 
long narrow pods. 
The West Indian 
indigo-plant is /. 
Anil, a short-pod- 
ded plant, native of 
the West Indies and 
the warmer parts of 
America, and culti- 
vated in Asia and 
Africa. Both are 
extensively grown 
for making indigo. 
indigo-snake 
(in'di-go-snak), 
n. The gopher-snake, Spilotes coxperi. [Local, 
southern U. S.] 
indigotate (in'di-go-tat), n. [= F. indigotate; 
as indigot(ic) + -ate 1 .'] A compound of indi- 
gotic acid with a salifiable base or a metallic 
oxid: as, indigotate of ammonia or of mercury. 
indigotic (in-di-got'ik), a. [= F. indigotique = 
Sf.indigtitico; as indigot(in) + -ic.~\ 1. Pertain- 
ing to or derived from iudigotin. 2. In bot., 
very deep blue Indigotic acid, an acid prepared by 
treating indigotin with oxidizing agents. 
indigotin (in'di-go-tin), n. [< indigo + -t- in- 
serted + -i2.] game as indigo blue (which see, 
under indigo). 
indigo-weed (in 'di- go -wed), . The wild or 
false indigo. See Baptisia. 
indihumin (in-di-hu'min), n. [< indi(go) + hu- 
mus + -j 2 .] See indigo brown, under indigo. 
indilatoryt (in-dil'a-to-ri), a. [< in-S + dilato- 
ry.'] Not dilatory or slow. 
Since you have firmed new orders you would be 
pleased in like manner to give them a new form of indila- 
tory execution. 
Cabbala, Sup., Cornwallis to the Span. King, an. 1654. 
indiligencet (in-dil'i-jens), . [= F. indiligence 
= Sp. Pg. indiligencia"= It. indiligenza; as in- 3 
+ diligence 1 ."] Lack of diligence ; slothfulness. 
If we put off our armour too soon, we ... are surprised 
by indulgence and a careless guard. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 641. 
Is it not ... an indignity, that an excellent conceit 
and capacity, by the indiligence of an idle tongue, should 
be disgrac'd ? B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
indiligentt (in-dil'i-jent), a. [= F. indiligent 
= Pg. indiiigente; as in- s + diligent."] Not 
diligent ; idle ; slothful. 
A person that hath right on his side is cold, indittgent, 
lazie, and unactive, trusting that the goodness of his cause 
will do it alone. Jer. Taylor, Works, II. vii. 
indiligentlyt (in-dil'i-jent-li), adv. Without 
diligence. 
I had spent some years (not altogether indiligently) un- 
der the ferule of such masters as the place afforded. 
Bp. Hall, Account of Himself. 
indiminishablet (in-di-min'ish-a-bl), a. [< in-S 
+ diminiskable.'] TJndiminisha'ble. 
Have they not been bold of late to check the Common 
Law, to slight and brave the indiminishable Majestie of 
our highestCourt, the Law-giving and Sacred Parliament? 
Milton, Eeformation in Eng., ii. 
indin (in'din), n. [< ind(igo) + -z2.] A crys- 
talline substance (C 16 H 10 N2P2) of a beautiful 
rose color, isomeric with indigo blue. 
indirect (in-di-rekf), a. [= F. Pr. indirect = 
Sp. Pg. indirecto = It. indiretto, < L. indirectus, 
not direct, < in- priv. + directus, direct : see di- 
rect.'} 1. Not direct in space ; deviating from 
a straight line ; devious ; circuitous : as, an in- 
direct course in sailing. 
O pity and shame, that they, who to live well 
Enter'd so fair, should turn aside to tread 
Paths indirect, or in the midway faint ! 
Milton, P. L., xi. 631. 
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2. Not direct in succession or descent; not 
lineal ; of irregular derivation ; out of direct 
line from the prime source or origin : as, indi- 
rect descent or inheritance ; an indirect claim ; 
indirect information. 
His title, the which we find 
Too indirect for long continuance. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 
3. Not direct in relation or connection; not 
having an immediate bearing or application; 
not related in the natural way; oblique; in- 
cidental; inferential: as, an indirect answer; 
an indirect effect ; indirect taxes. 
The direct effect of this change was important. The 
indirect effect has been more important still. 
Maeaulay, Sir J. Mackintosh. 
The second kind of indirect labour is that employed in 
making tools or implements for the assistance of labour. 
J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. ii. 4. 
The direct losses occasioned by the decay of our ocean 
commercial marine are insignificant in comparison with 
the indirect losses due to the loss of trade from an in- 
ability to make exchanges promptly, regularly, and cheap- 
ly with foreign countries. 
D. A. Wells, Merchant Marine, p. 29. 
4. Not direct in action or procedure; not in the 
usual course; not straightforward; not fair and 
open ; equivocal : as, indirect means of accom- 
plishing an object. 
He needs no indirect or lawless course 
To cut off those that have offended him. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 4. 
They [the covetous] made new principles, and new dis- 
courses, such which were reasonable in order to their pri- 
vate indirect ends, but not to the public benefit. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), 1. 11, Pref. 
Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. 
Tillotson. 
The judges ought to be plentifully provided for, that 
they may be under no temptation to supply themselves 
by indirect ways. 
Bp. Burnet, Hist. Own Times, Conclusion. 
Indirect demonstration. See demonstration. Indi- 
rect discourse, the form in which, in any language, the 
words or thoughts of another are reported, as distinguish- 
ed from direct discourse, or the reporting of them in the 
other's own words. It involves subordinate or dependent 
construction, the use of certain tense or mode forms, etc. 
Thus, he said he was on the way and should soon arrive is 
indirect discourse ; he said, "lam on the way and shall soon 
arrive," is direct. Also called, in Latin, oratio obligua. 
Indirect equilibration, the adjustment of a group of 
organisms to changing circumstances by the destruction 
of members of the group or by atrophy of organs which 
are not adapted to those circumstances. Indirect evi- 
dence, in law, evidence which raises an inference as to 
the truth of a matter in dispute, not by means of the ac- 
tual knowledge which any witness had of the fact, or actual 
statement of it by a competent document, but by showing 
collateral facts which render the main fact more or less 
probable or certain. Indirect inference. See in/er- 
ence. Indirect Object, in gram., a substantive word 
dependent on a verb less immediately than an accusative 
governed by it : usually said of a dative, answering to an 
English noun with to or for. Indirect predication. 
See direct predication, under direct. Indirect proof, 
in logic, same as apagoge, 1 (d). Indirect syllogism, a 
syllogism whose cogency can be made more evident by a 
reduction. indirect tax. See tax. indirect testi- 
mony, testimony given for another purpose than that of 
making known the fact directly testified to. =Syn, 1-3. 
Roundabout, tortuous. 4. Unfair, dishonest, dishonor- 
able. 
indirection (in-di-rek'shou), n. [= F. indirec- 
tion; as indirect + -ion."] Oblique or irregular 
course or means ; unfair or deceitful action or 
proceeding ; indirectness. 
I had rather coin my heart, 
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 
By any indirection ! Shak., J. C. , iv. 3. 
He [Franklinl was ... a Statesman . . . who never 
solicited an office, nor used any indirection to retain one 
when it was in his possession. 
Theodore Parker, Historic Americans, p. 16. 
indirectly (in-di-rekt'li), adv. 1 . In an indirect 
manner ; not in a straight line or course ; not 
expressly; not by direct or straightforward 
means. 
St. Paul, that calls the Cretans liars, doth it but indi- 
rectly, and upon quotation of their own poet. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 4. 
Political control indirectly entails evils on those who 
exercise it, as well as on those over whom it is exercised. 
B. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 443. 
The University of Oxford finds in Aristotle one of her 
most powerful engines of ethical, and indirectly of Chris- 
tian teaching. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 129. 
2. Unfairly; crookedly. 
If any reports have come unto your Lordship's ears that 
in the causes of my Lord of Essex I have dealt indirectly, 
I assure your Lordship they have done me wrong. 
E. Waterhouse (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 472). 
indirectness (in-di-rekt'nes), n. The condition 
or quality of being indirect ; obliquity ; unfair- 
ness ; dishonesty. 
indiretin (in-di-re'tin), n. [< indi(go) + ret- 
for res(ln) + -i2.] gee indigo brown, under in- 
digo. 
indiscreet 
indirubin (in-di-ro'bin), n. Same as indigo red 
(which see, under indigo). 
indiscernible (in-di-zer'ni-bl), a. and . [= F. 
indiscernable = Sp. indiscernible = Pg. indis- 
cernivel = It. indiscernibile ; as in-3 + discern- 
ible."] I. a. Not discernible ; incapable of be- 
ing discerned ; not visible or perceptible. 
These small and almost indiscernible beginnings and 
seeds of ill humour have ever since gone on in a very visi- 
ble increase and progress. 
Bp. Burnet, Hist. Own Times, an. 1689. 
U. n. That which is not discernible Prin- 
ciple of the identity of indiscernibles, the doctrine 
of Leibnitz that things altogether alike are one and the 
same individual. 
indiscernibleness (in-di-zer'ni-bl-nes), n. In- 
capability of being discerned. 
I should haue shew'd you also the indiscernibleness (to 
the eye of man) of the difference of these distant states, 
till God by his promulgate sentence haue made the sepa- 
ration. Hammond, Works, IV. 494. 
indiscernibly (in-di-zer'ni-bli), adv. In an in- 
discernible manner ; so as not to be seen or per- 
ceived. 
indiscerpibility (in-di-ser-pi-bil'i-ti), n. [< in- 
discerpible: see-bility.] The condition or qual- 
ity of being indiscerpible. 
Endowing it [a being] with such attributes as are es- 
sential to it, as indiscerpibility is to the soul of man. 
Dr. H. More, Immortal, of Soul, Pref. 
indiscernible (in-di-ser'pi-bl), a. [< in-S + 
discerpible.] Not discerpible ; incapable of be- 
ing destroyed by dissolution or separation of 
parts. 
I have taken the boldness to assert, that matter consists 
of parts indiscerpible, unAenta.nAing'by indiscerpible parts 
particles that have indeed real extension, but so little that 
they cannot have less and be anything at all, and there- 
fore cannot be actually divided. 
Dr. H. More, Immortal, of Soul, Pref. 
Which supposition is against the nature of any imma- 
terial being, a chief property of which is to be indiseerpi- 
Ue. Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, iii. 
indiscerpibleness (in-di-ser'pi-bl-nes), . In- 
discerpibility. Also indiscerptibleness. 
indiscerpibly (in-di-ser'pi-bli), adv. In an in- 
discerpible manner. Also indiscerptibly. 
indiscerptibility (in-di-serp-ti-bil'i-ti), n. [< 
indiscerptible : see -bittty."] Same as indiscerpi- 
bility. 
indiscerptible (in-di-serp'ti-bl), a. [< in-3 + 
discerptible."] Same as indiscerpible. 
Truth or absolute existence is one, immutable, uncon- 
ditioned, indiscerptible. 
J. Owen, Evenings with Skeptics, I. 124. 
He also [E. Montgomery], taught by biological research, 
is quite convinced that the feeling and thinking subject 
is an identically enduring, indiscerptible unity. 
Mind, IX. 367. 
indisciplinable (in-dis'i-plin-a-bl), a. [= F. 
indisciplinable = Sp. indisciplinable = Pg. in- 
diseiplinavel = It. indisciplinabile, < ML. indis- 
ciplinabilis, < L. in- priv. + LL. disciplinabilis, 
disciplinable: see disciplinable.'] Incapable of 
being disciplined, or subjected to discipline; 
undisciplinable. 
Necessity renders men of phlegmatick and dull natures 
stupid and indisciplinable. 
Sir M. Hale, Provision for the Poor, Pref. 
indiscipline (in-dis'i-plin), n. [= F. indiscipline 
= Sp. Pg. indisciplina, < LL. indiscipline,, want 
of education, < L. in- priv. + disciplina, edu- 
cation : see discipline."] Lack of discipline or 
instruction; disorder. 
The [army of the] Scots . . . not only exacting contri- 
butions, but committing . . . great excesses of indisci- 
pline. Hallam, Const. Hist., II. 176. 
But there were degrees in demoralization ; the migrs 
and the English contended for the prize of indiscipline. 
Athenaeum, No. 3074, p. 393. 
indiscoverable (in-dis-kuv'er-a-bl), a. [< ire- 3 
+ discoverable.'] Undiscoverable. 
Nothing can be to us a law which is by us indiscover- 
able. Conybeare, Sermons, II. 166. 
indiscoveryt (in-dis-kuv'er-i), n. [< in- 3 + dis- 
covery."] Want of discovery; failure of a search 
or an inquiry. 
Although in this long journey we miss the intended 
end, yet are there many things of truth disclosed by the 
way ; and the collateral verity may, unto reasonable specu- 
lations, requite the capital indiscovery. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 12. 
indiscreet (in-dis-kref), a. [= F. indiscret = 
Sp. Pg. It. indiscrcto; as in-3 + discreet."] Not 
discreet ; wanting in discretion or prudence ; 
not in accordance with sound judgment. 
By the indincrret steering of Ralph Skinner, their boat 
was overset. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 103. 
A devotee is one of those who disparage religion by 
their indiscreet and unseasonable introduction of the 
mention of virtue on all occasions. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 354. 
