infuser 
infuser (in-fu'zer), n. One who or that which 
infuses. 
It was a strange exaction of Nebuchadnezzar upon his 
magi to declare to him not onely the meaning, but the 
very dream, as if they had been the infusers of it. 
If. Montagw, Devoute Essays, I. xri. 6. 
infusibility 1 (in-fu-zi-bil'i-ti), n. [< infusible^ 
+ -ity : see -bility.] Capability of being infused 
or poured in. 
infusibility 2 (in-fu-zi-bil'i-ti), n. [= P. infusi- 
bilite = Sp. infu,iibilidad Pg. infusibilidade = 
It. infusibilita; as infusible? + -4ty: see -bility.] 
Incapability of being fused or dissolved. 
infusible 1 (in-fu'zi-bl), a. [As infuse + -ible.] 
Capable of being infused. [Bare.] 
From whom the doctrines being infusible into all, it 
will be more necessary to forewarn all of the danger of 
them. Hammond. 
infusible 2 (in-fu'zi-bl), a. [= F. Sp. infusi- 
ble = Pg. infusivel = It. infusibile; as i- 3 + /- 
sibk.] Not fusible; incapable of fusion or of 
being dissolved or melted: as, an infusible cru- 
cible. 
infusibleness (in-fu'zi-bl-nes), n. Infusibility. 
infusion (in-fu'zhon), n. [= F. infusion = Pr. 
infusio, enfuzio ="Sp. infusion = Pg. infusao = 
It. infusione, < L. infusio(n-), a pouring in, a 
watering, < infundere, pp. infusus, pour in: see 
infound, infuse.] 1. The act of infusing, pour- 
ing in, imbuing, or instilling: as, the infusion 
of good principles. 
Our language has received innumerable elegancies and 
improvements from that inflation of Hebraisms which are 
derived to it out of the poetical passages in lloly Writ. 
Addison. 
In Italy the question of rights had become so compli- 
cated that nothing but the iiifurion of an element of idea 
could have produced even a semblance of order out of the 
chaos. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 222. 
2. That which is infused or diffused; something 
poured in or mingled. 
With what infusion doth it [deceitf illness] so far intoxi- 
cate mankind to make them dote upon it, against the con- 
victions of reason and dictates of Conscience. 
Stillingflaet, Sermons, II. iii. 
She could not conceive a game wanting the spritely in- 
fusion of chance. Lamb, Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist. 
There is then an undoubted British infitriim in the Eng- 
lish people. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 149. 
3. The process of steeping a substance, as a 
plant, in water, in order to extract its virtues. 
4. A liquid extract or essence obtained by 
steeping a vegetable substance. 
Infusions are generally prepared by pouring boiling wa- 
ter upon the vegetable substance, and macerating in a 
tightly closed vessel till the liquid cools. 
U. 5. Dispensatory, p. 788. 
5. A pouring, or pouring out, as upon an ob- 
ject; affusion: formerly used of that method of 
baptism in which the water is poured upon the 
person. 
The priests, when they baptize, shall not only pour wa- 
ter on the head of the children, but shall plunge them into 
the laver. This shows that baptism by infusion began to 
be introduced in cold climates. Jortin, On Eccles. Hist. 
The infant is represented as seated naked in the font, 
while from a vessel the priest pours the water upon the 
head. Originally used only for sick or infirm persons, 
the method of baptism by infusion became gradually the 
established practice, and all doubts as to its validity were 
removed by appeal to papal and other high authority. 
Encyc. Brit., IX. 361. 
Method of infusion, in beer-manuf. t a method of pre- 
paring the mash by treating the bruised malt with water 
at a temperature of 70" to 75. 
infusive (in-fu'siv), a. [< infuse + -ire."] Hav- 
ing the power of infusion ; capable of infusing 
or imbuing. 
Still let my song a nobler note assume, 
And sing th' infusive force of Spring on Man. 
Thomson, Spring, 1. 866. 
Infusoria (in-fu-so'ri-a), n. pi. [NL., pi. of L. 
infusorium, q. v.] 1. A name given by Otho 
Fr. Miiller to an indiscriminate assemblage of 
minute, and for the most part microscopic, ani- 
mal and vegetable organisms frequently devel- 
oped in infusions of decaying organic sub- 
stances. The Infusoria in this sense comprehended va- 
rious desmids, diatoms, and other low plants, with many 
protozoan animalcules, and also rotifers or wheel-animal- 
cules. Some of these organisms were known to Linneeus, 
and thrown by him into a genus which he called Chaos. 
at the end of his class Vrrm?s. Lamarck, Gmelin, and 
others followed Miiller in his understanding of Infusoria. 
Cuvier made Infusoria the fifth class of Itadiata, divided 
into two orders, Rotifera and Ilomogenea. See Microzoa, 
Polygastrica. 
2. A class of minute, mostly microscopic, ani- 
malcules, provisionally regarded as the highest 
class of Protozoa. They are endoplastic, having a nu- 
cleus ; there is a mouth and a rudimentary stomach or 
gastric cavity ; there are vibratile cilia or flagella, but no 
proper pseudopodia. Most are aquatic and free-swimming, 
and some are internal parasites ; but others form colonies 
3092 
uoles may appear. A nucleus, which is supposed to be 
an ovary, having attached to it a spherical particle, the 
Infusoria in a Drop of Water, highly magnified. 
I, I, Astasia hatnatodes; 2, 3, Phacui longicauda ; 3, 3, Stentor 
-ing 
[< NL. *(/- 
'.. Infusorial, as an 
containing infusorial 
shells. 
II. w. ; pi. infusories (-riz). An infusorian. 
in futuro (in fu-tu'ro). [L.: in, in; futuro, 
dat. of futurus, future: see future.] In the 
future ; at a future time ; for the future. 
ing (ing), K. [< ME. ing, < AS. ing = Icel. eng, 
f ., a meadow, engi, iieut., meadow-land, = Dan. 
eng = Sw. ring, a meadow.] A meadow; es- 
pecially, a low meadow near a river. The word 
is found in some local names, as Ingitam, Ing- 
thorpe, Dorking, Deeping, li'apping, etc. Coles; 
Bailey. [Prov. Eng.] 
Bill for dividing and inclosing certain open common 
fields, ings, common pastures, and other commonable 
lands, within the manors or manor and township of Hem- 
ingby, in the county of Lincoln. 
Journals of the House of Commons, 1773. 
Those alluvial flats which are locally known as ings. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, III. 239. 
In the lowest situation, as in the water-formed base of 
a rivered valley, or in swampy dips, shooting up among 
the arable lauds, lay an extent of meadow grounds, or inge, 
to afford a supply of hay, for cows and working stock, in 
the winter and spring mouths. 
Maine, Village Communities, p. 91. 
rosoma virgaria; o. 
emmipara: n, Chil 
, the same, about to 
Acintlafrrrum tquinum; lo, Podofhiya 
ME - 
later alSO -HO (= OS. -</ = 
-. -.,- 
, 
cvcullus ; iza, Stylonychia myttlus; -p. -.,- T ft. V 43 rTTn tirtfin 
me, full of Sfharcfhrya D. -JWfiT = MLtr. L,(r. -Ung = OMLr. -MMJT, 
ries. -ing = 
rate ; iar. the same, 
; n, the same, individuals . Un g 6j -ung, G. -!</ = Icel. -ling = Dan. -ing = 
Sw. -ing), a suffix forming nouns of action or be- 
nucTeolus, supposed to be a spermatic gland, is embedded ing from verbs.] A suffix of Anglo-Saxon origin, 
in the cortical substance. Contractions of the body are usually forming nouns from verbs, expressing 
Reproduction takes place va- the act i on o ( t he verb. Such nouns may be formed 
from any verb whatever, and are usually called verbal 
nouns, being in grammars and dictionaries usually ac- 
counted a part of the verb-inflection. It is often a mere 
chance whether, in a particular instance, the form in -ing 
is treated as a noun or as a verb. These verbal nouns are 
now identical in form with the present form of adjectives 
(present participles) in -ing?. In sentences like " he is 
effected by sarcode fibers. Reproduction ta 
riously. The cilia or flagella are not only organs of loco- 
motion, but form currents by which food is carried into 
the mouth. The Infusoria have been variously subdi- 
vided. A current classification is by division of the class 
into four orders, based on the character of their cilia or 
flagella, namely, Ciliata, Flagellata, Choanoflaijellata, and 
Suctoria or Tentacvlifera. By S. Kent, the latest monog- 
rapher, the Ii\fusoria are called a "legion " or superclass 
of Protozoa, and include the sponges ; and they are divided 
into three classes, Flagellata or llastigophora, Ciliata or 
Trichophora, and Tentaculifera. 
Excluding from the miscellaneous assemblage of hete- 
rogeneous forms which have passed under this name 
the Desmideffi, Diatomacete, Volvocinete, and VibrionidBB, 
which are true plants, on the one hand, and the compara- 
tively highly organized Rotifera on the other, there remain 
three assemblages of minute organisms, which may be 
conveniently comprehended under the general title of In- 
fusoria. These are (a) The so-called " Monads," or In- 
'fusoria fta<iellata; (b) the AcinetsB, or Infusoria tentacu- 
lifera ; and (c) the Infusoria ciliata. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 89. 
infusorial (in-fu-so'ri-al), a. [< infusorium + 
-al.] In zool. : (a) Developed in infusions, as 
animalcules. (6) Containing or consisting of in- 
f usorians : as, infusorial earth, (c) Having the 
characters of the Infusoria; pertaining in any 
way to the Infusoria Infusorial earth, B very fine 
white earth resembling magnesia, but composed largely of 
the microscopic silicious shells of the vegetable organisms 
called diatoms. Deposits are found not infrequently under , , . . , , ... 
peat-beds, and also on a large scale in certain parts of the -ien(t-)s = Gr. -uv (-OVT-), suffix of ppr. of verbs. 
Ba\ i i t n1n S Nevad e8P Or% a on 'and'caJUtamialrtiere thereare a . U sueh P' 688 ?* participles being also usable a s 
massls of'rock! hundrlds'of feet 'in thrcknels, largely made simple adjectives, and such adjectives as nouns 
upof infusorial earth, occurringusuallyinterstratifled with of agent: see -ant 1 , -ent, which are thus ult. 
volcanic materials, and often in connection with a fine- identical with -infif 2 .] A suffix of Anglo-Saxon 
eMil^dUH^tSshed^S^e^ 8 ^ 8 ^^^^^^""* "g m ' tne regular formative of the English 
polishing articles of metal, and' as an absorbent in mak- present participle of verbs, as in coming, Weir- 
ing explosives with nitroglycerrn. Also called infusorial ing, Jicaring, leading, etc., such participles be- 
silica and fossil flour, and sold in the United States with m g often used as ordinary adjectives, as in ' the 
(presen- , , _ 
building a house," the form in -ingV, though originally a 
norm in -ingi, is now regarded as a present partidple in 
-ing%, and treated, with the auxiliary is, as a finite transi- 
tive verb. Strictly, all verbal nouns in -ingl, being inde- 
pendent words, and no part of the verb, should be entered 
and defined separately in the drctionaiies; but their great 
number (limited only by the number of verbs) makes this 
impracticable, and their mixture with the verb, from 
which their meaning can always be inferred, makes it un- 
necessary. In this dictionary verbal nouns are entered 
when there is anything noteworthy in their use or history ; 
others are, to save space, ignored, or if noticed, as in 
quotations, are included under the original verb. The 
suffix -ing as attached to verbs is equivalent in force to the 
Latin suffix -tio(n-\ E. -tion (-ation, etc.). In some words, 
as evening, mttrning, no accompanying verb is in use. 
-ing 2 . [< ME. -ing, -yng, -inge, -ynge, an altera- 
tion, through confusion with the verbal-noun 
suffix -ing 1 , of orig. -end, -ende, -inde (-and, -ande ) , 
< AS. -ende (in derived nouns -end) = OS. -ende 
= OFries. -and = D. -end = MLG. -ende, LG. 
-end = OHG. -anti, -enti, -ende, MHG. G. -end 
= Icel. -andi = Dan. -ende = Sw. -ande = Goth. 
-ands(-jands,-onds,-jods) =L. -an(t-), 
the trade-name of electro-silicon. See Diatomacete, dy- 
namite. 
The mixture of nitro-glycerin and infusorial earthfKie- 
selguhr) called dynamite or giant powder is now one of 
the commonest explosives met with. 
Encyc.Brit.,S.VI. 445. 
infusorian (in-fu-so'ri-an), n. and a. [< infu- 
sorium + -an.] I. n. An infusorial animal- 
cule ; one of the Infusoria. 
II. <i. Same as infusorial. 
infusoriform (in-fu-s6'ri-f6rm), a. [< infusori- 
cming man) > < a leading citizen,' 'a cnarming 
woman/ etc. It corresponds to the Latin suffixes -ont, 
-ent (which see). By reason of the alteration and the 
mixture of idiomatic uses of the verbal noun (in -inland 
the verbal adjective (present participle\ great confusion 
has resulted, and in many constructions the form in -ing 
may be referred with equal propriety to either origin. 
See -ingl. 
-ing 3 . [< ME. -ing, < AS. -ing = OHG. -ing, -inc, 
MHG. -ing, -ung, G. -ung = Icel. -ungr, -ingr, 
orig. an adj. suffix.] A suffix of nouns, denot- 
+ -form.] Infusorial in form'; resembling in g og in . a nd hence a common patronymic 
remaining in some English family or local 
an infusorian. 
Ai 
twi 
bytbj 
Stand. Nat. Hist., I. 197. 
Infusoriform embryo, in Dicymida, the embryo of a 
rhornbogenous dicyema. It is bilaterally symmetrical, 
and consists of an urn, a ciliated body, and two refractive 
bodies. See cut under Dityema. 
infusorium (in-fu-so'ri-um), n. [NL., neut. of 
"infusorius (cf. LL. infusorium, equiv. to suffu- 
sorium, a vessel for pouring, < infusor, one who etc 
pours), < L. infundere, pp. infusus, pour in : see inn', 
infuse, infusion.] One of the Infusoria ; an in- 
fusorial animalcule. 
Rearming, son of Beorm; Aitltelwulfing, son of 
Etholwulf ; cethling, son of a noble, etc. Such 
patronymic names, extending to all the members of a par- 
ticular family, or tribe, or community, gave rise to many 
local names formed of such patronymics, properly in geni- 
An infusorium swims randomly about. 
B. Spencer. Data of Ethics, p. 10. 
tive plural, with ham, home (village), as in Anglo-Saxon 
Ileormingaht'nn, 'the Beormings' town,' Birmingham; 
Wcelsingaham, Walsingham ; Snottinijahnm, Nottingham; 
In some words, as farthing, herring, riding-, n-ln't- 
(a fish), lording, gelding, the suflrx is less definite. In 
Itenny and king the suffix is disguised. 
-ing 4 . An apparent suffix in some local names, 
being ing, a meadow, in composition, as in 
Dorking, etc. 
