The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . nfinite intmrst of water, Carlyle, French Rev., I. vii. 9. inby, inbye (inbi), adv. [< inl + byl.] To-ward the interior; nearer to; specifically, incoal-mining, toward the interior of a mine, andaway from the shaft or other place where thesurface is reached: the opposite of outbij. Alsoin-m^er—To go Inby, to go from the door toward thefire. Janiieson. [.Scotch.] inca (ingkii), n. [Sometimes written i/Hca; =F. inca, incas = It. inca, < Sp. Pg. inca, < Per


The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . nfinite intmrst of water, Carlyle, French Rev., I. vii. 9. inby, inbye (inbi), adv. [< inl + byl.] To-ward the interior; nearer to; specifically, incoal-mining, toward the interior of a mine, andaway from the shaft or other place where thesurface is reached: the opposite of outbij. Alsoin-m^er—To go Inby, to go from the door toward thefire. Janiieson. [.Scotch.] inca (ingkii), n. [Sometimes written i/Hca; =F. inca, incas = It. inca, < Sp. Pg. inca, < (see def. 1).] 1. One of the princes orrulers who governed Peru or one of its divisionsprevious to the Spanish conquest.—2. [^cap.] Amember of the <lominant tribe in Peru previousto the Spanish conquest.—3. In ornith.: (a) Aname of Leadbeaters cockatoo (Cacattia lead-beateri) of Australia, having the crest red, yel-low, and white. (/)) [NL.] The technical spe-cific name of various birds: used only with a ge-neric term. (<?) [<Yy).] [NL.] A genus of terns orsea-swallows, stamina; related to the noddies,. Tern \hua t>i)!:tiirafis>. having dark plumage with a bundle of whitecurly plumes on each side of the head. The onlyspecies is Sterna inca (Lesson), now Inca niysta-calis (Jardine). See S^tenia. {d) A bird of thisgenus.—4. [.cajj.] [NL.] A genus of scara-ba>oid beetles, comprising a number of largerobust Mexican and Central and South Ameri-can forms, usually of a reddish-lironze color,flying actively at midday and frequenting tlow-eiing trees. Serrille, — 5. A name givenabout 1850 to some varieties of alpaca cloth.—Inca dog, a kind of South American dog, unlike any ofthe canines pecnli;ir tu (hat country, and supposed to bederived from tlic Mexican wolf. Incad8et(ingk!l-de), )!. [NL.,< Inca + -adw.]A family of lamellicorn beetles, taking namefrom the genus Inca. Burmeister, 1842. incage, . t. See encage. incalculability (i


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