Chapter In Forma Pauperis to Indian Drug of I by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

In-and-In A game with four dice, once extremely common, and frequently alluded to. "In" is a throw of doubles, "in-and-in" a throw of double doubles, which sweeps the board.

"I have seen three persons sit down at twelve penny in-and-in, and each draw 40s a-piece." - Nicker Nicked.

Ins and Outs of the Matter (The). All the details, both direct and indirect.

"If you want to know the ins and outs of the Yankees ... I know all their points, shape, make, and breed." - Haliburton.

    Sometimes the "Ins" means those in office, and the "Outs" those out of office, or in Opposition.

Inaugurate (4 syl.) means to be led in by augurs. The Roman augurs met at their college doors the high officials about to be invested, and led them up to the altar; hence to install.

Inca A king or royal prince of the ancient Peruvians. The empire of the Incas was founded by Manco Capac.

"The Inca was a war-chief, elected by the Council to carry out its decision." - Brinton: The American Race (South American Tribes), part i. chap. ii. p. 211.

Incantation A singing against, that is, singing a set form of words in order to bring Divine wrath upon persons or nations.

Incarnadine (To). To make red. (Latin, incarnatus color, carnation).

"No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous sea incarnadine,
Making the green - one red."
Shakespeare: Macbeth, ii. 2.

Inch of Candle (Sold by). A sale by auction. Instead of the hammer of the auctioneer concluding the bids, the purchaser was the last bidder before the candle went out. Another plan is to stick a pin in a candle, and when the pin drops down, the sale of the article is concluded.

"Down were tumbled miracle and martyr,
Put up in lots, and sold by inch of candle."
Peter Pindar: Lyric Odes, xiii.

Inchcape Rock Twelve miles from land, in the German Sea. It is dangerous for navigators, and therefore the abbot of Aberbrothok fixed a bell on a float, which gave notice to sailors of its whereabouts. Ralph the Rover, a sea pirate, cut the bell from the float, and was wrecked on his return home on the very rock. Southey has a ballad on the subject.
   Precisely the same tale is told of St. Goven's bell, in Pembrokeshire. In the chapel was a silver bell, which was stolen one summer evening by pirates, but no sooner had the boat put to sea than all the crew was wrecked. The silver bell was carried by sea- nymphs to the brink of a well, and whenever the stone of that well is struck the bell is heard to moan.
   N.B. Inch or Innis means island.

Incog - i.e. Incognito (Italian). Under an assumed name or title. When a royal person travels, and does not wish to be treated with royal ceremony, he assumes some inferior title for the nonce, and travels incog.

Incorruptible (The). Robespierre (1754-1794). Robert Walpole says that William Shippen was the only man he knew who was proof against a bribe.

"Even the `Incorruptible' himself fell from his original ideal." -Nineteenth Century. August, 1893, p. 272.

Incubus A nightmare, anything that weighs heavily on the mind. At one time supposed to consort with women in their sleep. (Latin, in cubo, to lie on.)

"Merlin was the son of no mortal father, but of an Incubus; one of a class of beings not absolutely wicked, but far from good, who inhabit the regions of the air," - Bulfinch: Age of Chivalry. Part chap. iii. p. 50.

Indenture A written contract; so called because the skin on which it was written in duplicate was divided with an indented edge, to fit into each other.

Independence The Declaration of Independence. A declaration made July 4th 1776, by the American States, declaring the colonies free and independent, absolved from all allegiance to Great Britain.

Independence Day (July 4th). So called in the United States of America. (See above.)