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Improperia
- - A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual.
In The Air
- adverb - on everybody''s mind; "Christmas was in the air"
- on everybody's mind; "Christmas was in the air"
Inachis Io
- noun - European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
Inartistic
- adjective - lacking aesthetic sensibility;
Indicatrix
- - A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.
Indifulvin
- - A reddish resinous substance, obtained from indican.
Indifuscin
- - A brown amorphous powder, obtained from indican.
Indiglucin
- - The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution.