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changes thus produced may be made a fource of great 
amufement to the younger part of a company, and per¬ 
haps puzzle the older. But it mult be obferved, that, if 
the fcreen be at any time heated too much, the green co¬ 
lour will not afterwards difappear, but become fixed. 
The Oracle.—Write on feveral leaves of paper, with 
common ink, a certain number of queltions, and below 
each queftion write the anfwer with the above kind of 
■fympathetic ink. The fame queftion mull be written on 
feveral pieces of paper, but witii dilferent anfwers, that 
the artifice may be better concealed. Then provide a 
box, to which you may give the name of the Sybil’s Cave, 
or any other at pleafure, and containing in the lid a plate 
of iron made very hot, in order that the infide of it may 
be heated to a certain degree. Having feleited home of 
the queltions, take the bits of paper containing them, and 
tell the company that you are going to fend them to the 
Sybil, or Oracle, to obtain an anfwer; introduce them 
into the heated box, and when they have remained in it 
fome minutes take them out, and (how the anfwers which 
have been written. You mull however foon lay afide the 
bits of paper; for, if they remain long in the hands of 
thofe to whom the trick is exhibited, they would fee the 
anfwers gradually difappear, as the paper becomes cold. 
But then they might be reftored again, fo as to excite frelli 
furprife. 
6. Thofe which become vifible by being welted with water .— 
This clafs comprehends fuch inks as become vifible when 
characters written with them are wetted with water. 
They are made of all fuch fubftances as depofit a copious 
fediment when mixed with water, diflolving only imper¬ 
fectly in that fluid. Of this kind are dried alum, fugar 
of lead, vitriol, See. We have therefore only to write 
with a ftrong folution of thefe falts upon paper, and the 
characters will be invifible when dry ; but, when we ap¬ 
ply water, the fmall portion of dried fait cannot again be 
diflolved in the water; hence the infoluble part becomes 
vifible on the paper, and (hows the characters written in 
white, grey, brown, or any other colour which the preci¬ 
pitate aflumes. 
7. Such as appear of various colours. —Characters may be 
made to appear of a fine crimfon, purple, or yellow, bv 
■writing on paper with folution of muriat of tin, and 
then pafling over it a pencil dipt in a decoCtion of cochi¬ 
neal, Brafil-wood, logwood, yellovy wood, &c. 
To INK, v. a. To black or daub with ink. 
INK'-BOTTLE, A bottle to hold ink.—I could 
hardly reftrain them from throwing the ink-bottle at one 
another’s heads. Arbulhnot. 
INK'-BOX, / A veflel to hold ink; an ink-horn. 
INK'-GLASS, f. A fmall glafs to ho'ld ink for ufe. 
INK'-HORN, f. A portable cafe for the inflruments 
of writing, commonly made of horn.—What is more .fre¬ 
quent than to fay a filver ink-horn ? Grew. 
Ere that we will fuffer fuch a prince 
To be difgraced by an ink-horn mate, 
We, and our wives, and children, all will fight. Shakefp. 
INK'-MAKERjfi He who makes ink. 
1 NK'-STAND,_/. An utenfil for holding an ink-glafs 
and appendages. 
INKIAN G, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Koei-tcheou : twelve miles north-uorth- 
caft of Se-nan. 
To INKIN'DLE, v. a. Tofet on fire; to light up. 
INKIN'DLING, f. The aCl of letting on fire. 
INK'INESS, f. The Hate of being marked or daubed 
with ink. 
INK'ING, f. The aft of marking or daubing with 
ink. 
IN'KLE, f. A kind of narrow fillet; a tape.— Inkles, 
caddifles, cambrics, lawns : why he fongs them over as 
they were gods and goddeffes. Shakefpeare. 
I twitch’d his dangling garter from his knee; 
He wilt not when the hempen firing I drew ; 
Now mine I quickly doff of inkle blue. Gay. 
I N L 
iNK/LTNG,yi [This word is derived by Skinner from 
inklmchen, to found within; a fenfe retained in Scotland.] 
Hint 5 whifper 5 intimation.—Our bufinefs is not un- 
known to the fenate ; they have had inkling what we in¬ 
tend to do, which now we’ll fhow them in deeds. Shakef- 
peare. We in Europe, notwithftanding all the remote 
dilcoveries and navigations of this lad age, never heard 
of any of the leaft inkling or glimpfe of this illand 
Bacon. 
INKOLSxCA'IA, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in the government 
of Kolivan: forty miles fouth-weil of Biifk. b 
IN'KY, adj. Confifting of ink : 
England, bound in with the triumphant fea. 
Whole rocky lhore beats back the envious fie^e 
Of wat’ry Neptune, is bound in with lliame, ^ 
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. Shakefpeare. 
Refembling ink. The liquor prefently began to grow 
pretty clear and tranfparent, lofing its inky blacknefs 
Boyle. —Black as ink : 
’Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother. 
Nor cuftomary fuits of folemn black. 
That can denote me truly. Shakefpeare.. 
INLAG'ARY, [inlagare, Lat.] The reftoration of an 
outlaw' to the benefit of the law. Annal. Waverl. anno. 1074. 
INLAGA'TION, f. [ inlagatio , Lat. from in lavian. 
Sax.] A reftitution of one outlawed to the protection of 
the law and benefit of a fubject. Brad. lib. iii. trad. 2. c. 
14. Leg. Canul. c. 2. 
IN'LAGH, f. [inlagatus, vel homo fub lege.'] He who was 
of fome frank-pledge, and not outlawed. It feems to be 
the contrary to Utlagh. Brad. 2. lib. iii. c. 11. 
IN'LAND, adj. Interior; lying remote from the fea.— 
Goodly laws, like little inland feas, will carry even ihips 
upon their waters. Spenfer. 
A fubftitute fhines brightly as a king, 
Until a king be by; and then his ftate 
Empties itfelf, as doth an inland brook 
Into the main of waters. Shakefpeare. 
IN'LAND, f. Interior or midland parts.—Out of thefe 
fmall beginnings, gotten near to the mountains, did they 
fpread themfelves into the inland. Spenfer. 
They of thofe marches (hall defend 
Our inland from the pilfering borderefs. Shakefpeare. 
IN'LANDER, f. Dweller remote from the fea.— The 
fame name is given unto the inlanders, or. midland inha¬ 
bitants, of this ifland. Brown. 
INLAN'TAL, adj. \_inlantale, Lat.] Demefne or in¬ 
land, to which was oppoled delantal, land tenanted or out¬ 
lawed. Cowell. 
To INLAP'IDATE, v. a. [in and lapido, Lat.] To maka 
ftony; to turn to Hone-.—Some natural lpring-waters will 
inlapidate wood ; fo that you (hall fee one piece of wood, 
whereof the part above the water (hall continue wood, 
and the part under the water (hall be turned into a kind 
of gravelly (lone. Bacon. 
INLAPIDA'TION, f. The ail of turning into Hone ; 
that which is turned into (lone. 
To INLA'RGE. See To Enlarge. 
INLAR'GEMENT, f. See Enlargement. 
INLAR'GING, f. Enlarging, making larger; giving 
more room to. 
INLAU'GH, f. See Inlagh. 
To INLAW', v. a. To clear of outlawry or attainder. 
—It (hould be a great incongruity to have them to make 
laws, who themfelves were not inlawed. Bacon. 
INLAWING, f. The ail of clearing from an out¬ 
lawry. 
To INLAY', v. a. To diverfify with different bodies 
inferted into the ground or fubftratum.—The timber bears 
a great price with the cabinet-makers, when large for in¬ 
laying. Mortimer, 
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