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Bill of indictmentIndictment In*dict"ment, n. [Cf. Inditement.]
1. The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.
2. (Law) The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the
prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand
jury.
Note: To the validity of an indictment a finding by the grand
jury is essential, while an information rests only on
presentation by the prosecuting authority.
3. An accusation in general; a formal accusation.
Bill of indictment. See under Bill. C IndicaCanna Can"na, n. [L., a reed. See Cane.] (Bot.)
A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with
showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in
gardens of the northern United States. Cajanus Indicus Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria
glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly
eaten by pigeons and other birds.
Pigeon hawk. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The
adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with
black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked
with brown. The tail is banded.
(b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox, or
fuscus).
Pigeon hole.
(a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house.
(b) See Pigeonhole.
(c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rolled
through little arches. --Halliwell.
Pigeon house, a dovecote.
Pigeon pea (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of
pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the
plant itself.
Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African
species of Chrysobalanus (C. ellipticus and C.
luteus).
Pigeon tremex. (Zo["o]l.) See under Tremex.
Pigeon wood (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood
of several very different kinds of trees, species of
Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba.
Pigeon woodpecker (Zo["o]l.), the flicker.
Prairie pigeon. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The upland plover.
(b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.] Cajanus indicusAngola pea An*go"la pea` (Bot.)
A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a
kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa.
Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea. Cajanus IndicusDal Dal, n. [Hind.]
Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus. [East Indies] Cannabis IndicaBhang Bhang, n. [Per. bang; cf. Skr. bhang[=a] hemp.]
An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves
and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and
chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See
Hasheesh. Cannabis IndicaCannabis Can"na*bis, n. [L., hemp. See Canvas.] (Bot.)
A genus of a single species belonging to the order
Uricace[ae]; hemp.
Cannabis Indica, the Indian hemp, a powerful narcotic, now
considered a variety of the common hemp. Cocculus IndicusMultum Mul"tum, n.
An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers
in order to economize malt and hops. --Craig.
Hard multum, a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus,
etc., used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer. Cocculus IndicusCocculus Indicus Coc"cu*lus In"di*cus, n. [NL. cocculus (dim.
of L. coccum kermes berry) + L. Indicus of India.] (Bot.)
The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing
plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and
stimulant. Coindication
Coindication Co*in`di*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. co["i]dication.]
One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact;
as, a coindication of disease.
Contraindicant
Contraindicant Con"tra*in"di*cant, n. (Med.)
Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of
treatment is not to be followed. --Burke.
ContraindicateContraindicate Con"tra*in*"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Contraindicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Contraindicating.]
(Med.)
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment
contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would
seem to require.
Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. --Harvey. ContraindicatedContraindicate Con"tra*in*"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Contraindicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Contraindicating.]
(Med.)
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment
contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would
seem to require.
Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. --Harvey. ContraindicatingContraindicate Con"tra*in*"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Contraindicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Contraindicating.]
(Med.)
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment
contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would
seem to require.
Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. --Harvey. Contraindication
Contraindication Con"tra*in`di*ca"tion, n. (med.)
An indication or symptom which forbids the method of
treatment usual in such cases.
Counter indicationCounter Coun"ter, a.
Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse;
antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a
counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue. ``Innumerable
facts attesting the counter principle.' --I. Taylor.
Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward
from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers.
See Approach.
Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one
who has given bond for another.
Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary.
Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys,
invalidates, or alters, a public deed.
Counter distinction, contradistinction. [Obs.]
Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a
canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may
soak through.
Counter extension (Surg.), the fixation of the upper part
of a limb, while extension is practiced on the lower part,
as in cases of luxation or fracture.
Counter fissure (Surg.) Same as Contrafissure.
Counter indication. (Med.) Same as Contraindication.
Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister,
a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of
the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in
some other part. ``Counter irritants are of as great use
in moral as in physical diseases.' --Macaulay.
Counter irritation (Med.), the act or the result of
applying a counter irritant.
Counter opening, an aperture or vent on the opposite side,
or in a different place.
Counter parole (Mil.), a word in addition to the password,
given in time of alarm as a signal.
Counter plea (Law), a replication to a plea. --Cowell.
Counter pressure, force or pressure that acts in a contrary
direction to some other opposing pressure.
Counter project, a project, scheme, or proposal brought
forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of
a treaty. --Swift.
Counter proof, in engraving, a print taken off from another
just printed, which, by being passed through the press,
gives a copy in reverse, and of course in the same
position as that of plate from which the first was
printed, the object being to enable the engraver to
inspect the state of the plate.
Counter revolution, a revolution opposed to a former one,
and restoring a former state of things.
Counter revolutionist, one engaged in, or befriending, a
counter revolution.
Counter round (Mil.), a body of officers whose duty it is
to visit and inspect the rounds and sentinels.
Counter sea (Naut.), a sea running in an opposite direction
from the wind.
Counter sense, opposite meaning.
Counter signal, a signal to answer or correspond to
another.
Counter signature, the name of a secretary or other officer
countersigned to a writing. --Tooke.
Counter slope, an overhanging slope; as, a wall with a
counter slope. --Mahan.
Counter statement, a statement made in opposition to, or
denial of, another statement.
Counter surety, a counter bond, or a surety to secure one
who has given security.
Counter tally, a tally corresponding to another.
Counter tide, contrary tide. Cycle of indiction Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman
and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any
astronomical period, but having reference to certain
judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the
Greek emperors.
Cycle of the moon, or Metonic cycle, a period of 19
years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon
returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from
Meton, who first proposed it.
Cycle of the sun, Solar cycle, a period of 28 years, at
the end of which time the days of the month return to the
same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter
follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also
called the cycle of the Sunday letter. In the Gregorian
calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the
end of the century. Eleusine IndicaWire Wire, n. [OE. wir, AS. wir; akin to Icel. v[=i]rr, Dan.
vire, LG. wir, wire; cf. OHG. wiara fine gold; perhaps akin
to E. withy. ????.]
1. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance
formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved
rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
Note: Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square,
triangular, etc., by giving this shape to the hole in
the drawplate, or between the rollers.
2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph;
as, to send a message by wire. [Colloq.]
Wire bed, Wire mattress, an elastic bed bottom or
mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in
various ways.
Wire bridge, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made
of wire.
Wire cartridge, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed
in a wire cage.
Wire cloth, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, --
used for strainers, and for various other purposes.
Wire edge, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes
formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening
it.
Wire fence, a fence consisting of posts with strained
horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework,
between.
Wire gauge or gage.
(a) A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness
of sheet metal, etc., often consisting of a metal
plate with a series of notches of various widths in
its edge.
(b) A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as
by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the
thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is
used in describing the size or thickness. There are
many different standards for wire gauges, as in
different countries, or for different kinds of metal,
the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge
being often used and designated by the abbreviations
B. W. G. and A. W. G. respectively.
Wire gauze, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling
gauze.
Wire grass (Bot.), either of the two common grasses
Eleusine Indica, valuable for hay and pasture, and Poa
compressa, or blue grass. See Blue grass.
Wire grub (Zo["o]l.), a wireworm.
Wire iron, wire rods of iron.
Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the
place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.
Wire mattress. See Wire bed, above.
Wire micrometer, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine
wires, across the field of the instrument.
Wire nail, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed
and pointed.
Wire netting, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary
wire gauze.
Wire rod, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing.
Wire rope, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of
wires. Eleusine IndicaYard Yard, n. [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries.
garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden,
G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar[eth]r
yard, house, Sw. g[*a]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house,
garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. cho`rtos an inclosure.
Cf. Court, Garden, Garth, Horticulture, Orchard.]
1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of,
or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a
barnyard.
A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which
she had a cock, hight chanticleer. --Chaucer.
2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried
on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
Liberty of the yard, a liberty, granted to persons
imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any
other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not
to go beyond those limits.
Prison yard, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to
it.
Yard grass (Bot.), a low-growing grass (Eleusine Indica)
having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and
like places, especially in the Southern United States.
Called also crab grass.
Yard of land. See Yardland. Eleusine IndicaBunch grass, grazing. Far West. Eriocoma, Festuca, Stips,
etc. Chess, or Cheat, a weed. Bromus secalinus, etc. Couch
grass. Same as Quick grass (below). Crab grass,
(a) Hay, in South. A weed, in North. Panicum sanguinale.
(b) Pasture and hay. South. Eleusine Indica. Darnel
(a) Bearded, a noxious weed. Lolium temulentum.
(b) Common. Same as Rye grass (below). Drop seed, fair
for forage and hay. Muhlenbergia, several species.
English grass. Same as Redtop (below). Fowl meadow
grass.
(a) Pasture and hay. Poa serotina.
(b) Hay, on moist land. Gryceria nervata. Gama grass,
cut fodder. South. Tripsacum dactyloides. Ficus IndicaBanyan Ban"yan, n. [See Banian.] (Bot.)
A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the
Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to
the ground, which take root and become additional trunks,
until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is
able to shelter thousands of men. Ficus IndicaBo tree Bo" tree` (Bot.)
The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at
Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under
which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and
so to have become Buddha.
The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus
religiosa), which is planted close to every temple,
and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of
the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan
(Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its
branches. --Tennent. Ficus IndicaFicus Fi"cus, n. [L., a fig.]
A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F.
Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
Note: Ficus Indica is the banyan tree; F. religiosa, the
peepul tree; F. elastica, the India-rubber tree. Indical
Indical In"dic*al, a. [From L. index, indicis, an index.]
Indexical. [R.] --Fuller.
IndicanIndican In"di*can, n. [See Indigo.]
1. (Chem.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and
other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a
nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the
action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar
and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.
2. (Physiol. Chem.) An indigo-forming substance, found in
urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red
and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it
is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived
from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also
uroxanthin. IndicantIndicant In"di*cant, a. [L. indicans, p. pr. indicare. See
Indicate.]
Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating. Indicant
Indicant In"di*cant, n.
That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the
remedy for a disease.
IndicateIndicate In"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Indicating.] [L. indicatus, p. p. of indicare to
indicate; pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere
to say. See Diction, and cf. Indict, Indite.]
1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to
show; to make known.
That turns and turns to indicate From what point
blows the weather. --Cowper.
2. (Med.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the
proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength
indicates the use of stimulants.
3. (Mach.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of
steam engine, by means of an indicator.
Syn: To show; mark; signify; denote; discover; evidence;
evince; manifest; declare; specify; explain; exhibit;
present; reveal; disclose; display. IndicatedIndicate In"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Indicating.] [L. indicatus, p. p. of indicare to
indicate; pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere
to say. See Diction, and cf. Indict, Indite.]
1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to
show; to make known.
That turns and turns to indicate From what point
blows the weather. --Cowper.
2. (Med.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the
proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength
indicates the use of stimulants.
3. (Mach.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of
steam engine, by means of an indicator.
Syn: To show; mark; signify; denote; discover; evidence;
evince; manifest; declare; specify; explain; exhibit;
present; reveal; disclose; display.
Meaning of Indic from wikipedia
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Indic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Indic may
refer to:
Indic languages (disambiguation) Indo-Aryan
peoples Various scripts:
Brahmic scripts...
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contains Indic text.
Without proper rendering support, you may see
question marks or boxes,
misplaced vowels or
missing conjuncts instead of
Indic text....
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contains Indic text.
Without proper rendering support, you may see
question marks or boxes,
misplaced vowels or
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Inđić, also
transcribed as Indjić, is a
Serbian surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Aleksandar Inđić (born 1995),
Serbian chess grandmaster...
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Indic languages may
refer to: Indo-Aryan languages, a
subgroup of the Indo-European
languages spoken mainly in the
north of the
Indian subcontinent (used...
- The Indo-Aryan
languages (or
sometimes simply Indic languages) are a
branch of the Indo-Iranian
languages in the Indo-European
language family. As of...
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contains Indic text.
Without proper rendering support, you may see
question marks or boxes,
misplaced vowels or
missing conjuncts instead of
Indic text....
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symbols instead of the
intended characters. A is a
vowel of
Indic abugidas. In
modern Indic scripts, A is
derived from the
early "Ashoka"
Brahmi letter...
- (أَرْقَام هِنْدِيَّة) in Arabic. They are
sometimes also
called Indic numerals or Arabic–
Indic numerals in English. However, that is
sometimes discouraged...
- ISO 15919 (Transliteration of
Devanagari and
related Indic scripts into
Latin characters) is an
international standard for the
romanization of Brahmic...
