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fiftent parts of the body. Harvey .—To enfold ; to wreath ; 
to wind : 
Clofe the ferpent Gy 
L/Jinuating, of his fatal guile 
Gave proof unheeded. Milton. 
INSINUATING, f. The aft of introducing by de¬ 
grees ; of getting into favour by peculiar behaviour. 
INSINUA'TION, f. The power of pleafing or dealing 
upon'the affeftions.—When the indultry of one man hath 
fettled the work, a new man, by infmuation or mifinfor- 
mation, may not fupplant him without a juft caufe. Bacon. 
INSIN'UATIVE, adj. Stealing on the affedtions.— It is 
a Grange informative power which example and cuftom have 
upon us. Government of the Tongue. 
XNSINUA'TOR, J. [Latin.] He that infinuates. 
INSIP'ID, adj. [ infopide , Fr. infopidus, Lat. ] Wanting 
take ; wanting power of affefting the organs of take.— 
This chyle is the natural and alimentary pituita, which 
the ancients defcribed as infopid. Flayer on the Humours. 
Our fathers much admir’d their fauces fweet, 
And often call’d for fugar with their meat ; 
Infopid tafte, old friend, to them that Paris knew. 
Where rocambole, fnallot, and the rank garlic, grew. King. 
Wanting fpirit; wanting pathos ; flat; dull; heavy: 
The gods have made your noble mind for me. 
And her infopid foul for Ptolemy ; 
A heavy lump of earth without defre, 
A heap of allies that o’erlaj's your fire. Drydcn. 
INSIPID'ITY, f. fonfopidite, Fr. from mfopidf Want of 
tafte. Want of life or fpirit.—Dryden’s lines Ihine 
ftcongiy through the infopidily of Tate’s. Pope. 
INSIP'IDLY, adv- Without tafte. Dully; without 
fpirit.—One great reafon why many children abandon 
themfelves wholly to filly fports, and trifle away all their 
time infopidly, is becaufe they have found their curiofity 
baulked. Locke. 
INSIP'IDNESS,/! Infipidity; want of tafte, Ac. 
lNSIP'IENCE, or Ins^piency, f. [ infopientia , Lat.] 
Folly; want of underftanding. 
To INSIST 7 , v.n. [ irfofoer , Fr. vfofoo, Lat.] To Hand or 
reft upon.—The combs being double, the cells on each 
fide the partition are fo ordered, that the angles on one 
fide, irfojl upon the centres of the bottom of the cells on 
the other fide. Ray .—Not to recede from terms or affer- 
tions ; to perfift in : 
Upon fuch large terms, and fo abfolute, 
As our conditions Ihall irfojl upon, 
Our peace Ihall Hand firm as rocky mountains. Shake/p. 
To dwell upon in difcourfe.—Were there no other adt of 
liofcility but that which we have hitherto infofied on, the 
intercepting of her fupplies were irreparably injurious to 
her. Decay of Piety. 
INSIS'TENT, adj. [infojlens, Lat.] Retiring upon any 
thing.—The breadth of the lubftruction rnuit be at leait 
double to the infojleht wall IVutton. 
INSIST'ING, f. The adt of perfifting in. 
INSIS'TUKE, f. [from irfojl.~\ Conftancy; regularity; 
not ufed: 
The heav’ns themfelves, the planets, and the centre, 
Obferve degree, priority, and place, 
Inffoure, courfe, proportion, feafon, form. 
Office, and cuftom, in all line of order. Shakefpeare. 
tNSFTIENCY, f. [in and fotio, Lat.] Exemption 
from third:.'—What is more admirable than the fitnefs of 
every creature for the ufe we make of him ? The docility 
of an elephant, and the ivfotiency of a camel for travelling 
in deferts. Grew. 
INSI'TION, f. [iifotio , Lat] The infertion or the in- 
graftment of one branch into another.— Without the ufe 
ot thefe we could have nothing of culture or civility; no 
tillage, grafting, or infotion. Ray. 
INSITIVE, adj. [from in, Lat. into, and Jilusj placed.] 
Grafted ; not natural. Scott. 
I N S 
To INSLA'VE, Src. See To Enslave, vol. vi. 
INS'MiNG, a town of France, in the department of 
the Meurte : ten miles north-north-eaft of Dieuze, and 
nine eaft-north-eaft of Morhange. 
To INSNA'RE, v. a. To intrap ; to catch in a trap, 
gin, or fnare ; to inveigle : 
Why ftrevv’It thou fugar on that bottled fpider, 
Whofe deadly web infnaretk thee about ? Shakefpeare. 
To intangle in difficulties or perplexities.—That the hy¬ 
pocrite reign not, left the people be infnared. Jobxxx. iv 30. 
INSNA'RER, f. He that inftiares. 
INSNA 7 RING,y. The adt of bringing into a fnare. 
INSO'CIABLE, adj. [Fr. in/ociabilis, Lat.] Averfe 
from converfation : 
If this aullere infociable life 
Change not your offer made in heat of blood. Shakefpeare. 
Incapable of connexion or union.—The lowed ledge or 
row mud be merely of done, clofely laid, without mortar, 
which is a general caution for all parts in building that 
are contiguous to board or timber, becaule lime and wood 
are infoci able. Wot ton. 
INSO'CI ABLENESS, f. Unfociablenefs ; refervednefs. 
INSOBRI'ETY, f. Drunkennefs ; want of fobriety.— 
He whofe confcience upbraids him with profanenefs to¬ 
wards God, and infobriety towards himfelf, if he is juft,to 
his neighbour, he thinks, he has quit Icores. Decay of 
Piety. 
INSO'KO, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft : 120 
miles from the fea. 
To IN'SOLATE, v.a. \_infolo, Lat.] To dry in the fun ; 
to expofe to the adfion of the fun. 
INSOLA'TION, f. Expofition to the fun.—We ufe 
thefe towers for info/ation, refrigeration, converfation, and 
for the view of divers meteors. Bacon. 
Insolation, in medicine, the influence of a fcorching 
fun on the brain.—One cafe of confequential madnefs is 
an effedt of injblation, or what the French call coup de foleil. 
An inftance of which I lately met with in a failor, who 
became raving mad in a moment, while the fun-beams 
darted perpendicularly on his head. Battic on Madnefs. 
The coup de foleil, or infolation, does not appear to arife 
from the heat of the atmofphere alone, but occurs only 
when people are expofed to the diredf adfion of the rays 
of the fun, efpecially during any labour or adtive exertion. 
The intenfe heat of the lun’s rays, adling efpecially on 
the head, increafes the adfion of the blood-veffels, and 
occafions fuch a congeliion in the brain, as to bring on a 
fort of apoplexy, which has been thus defcribed by Chal¬ 
mers, in his Account of the Weather and Difeafes of 
South Carolina, vol. i. p. 105. “ The figns which lead to 
this cataftrophe are a full and high-flulhed countenance ; 
an univerfal languor with a drowfinefs; fome are exceed¬ 
ingly ftek, and have retchings to vomit. The head alfo 
is fo confufed and giddy, that the perfon daggers when 
he attempts to walk ; and fo vehement is the circulation 
in the veffels within and without the cranium, that he 
compares the pulfations of the arteries to the noile of many 
hammers knocking on his Ikull. If, in this cafe, the af- 
fedled perfon efcapes convulfions or an apoplexy, fuch a 
tightnefs will quickly be perceived about the breaft as if 
that part was girded with cords. A profound fleep foon 
enfues, during which infpiration is performed in a long, 
and exfpiration in a quick, manner, for a fmall time; but 
afterwards, the breathing, being fnore hurried, is attended 
with a foertor, or loud fnorting, and infpiration is exerted 
as it were in a re-doubled manner. Prefently after, the 
refpiration becomes very flow; and then he fo quickly ex¬ 
pires, that perhaps this whole feene pafl’es in the Ipace 
of a quarter of an hour from the time he began to be dif- 
ordered.” The remedies, which were occalionally fuc- 
cefs.ful in removing this date of difeafe, were, an immedi¬ 
ate removal to a cool airy ftiade, the free ufe of the lancet 
according to the ftrength of the patient, fprinkling his 
bare head and breaft from time to time w ith cold vinegar. 
