*inur*

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; To move + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disinured p. pr. & vb. n. Disinuring. ] [ Pref. dis- + inure. ] To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fulminic + cyanuric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive substance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inurbanus. See In- not, and Urbane. ] Uncivil; unpolished; rude. Opposite of urbane. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inurbanité. ] Lack of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inured p. pr. & vb. n. Inuring. ] [ From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See Ure use, practice, Opera, and cf. Manure. ] To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. “To inure our prompt obedience.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Here the fortune of the day turned, and all things became adverse to the Romans; the place deep with ooze, sinking under those who stood, slippery to such as advanced; their armor heavy, the waters deep; nor could they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty javelins. The barbarians on the contrary, were inured to encounter in the bogs, their persons tall, their spears long, such as could wound at a distance.” In this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual struggle, was irrecoverably lost; nor could the body of the emperor ever be found. Such was the fate of Decius, in the fiftieth year of his age; . . . Gibbon [ quoting Tacitus ] (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. 10) [ PJC ]

v. i. To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [ Written also enure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inurned p. pr. & vb. n. Inurning. ] To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sepulcher
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from L. Palinurus, the pilot of Aeneas. ] (Naut.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of succinuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]