Chapter Induline to Inelegant of I by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Indusium
(||In*du"si*um) n.; pl. Indusia [L., an under garment, fr. induere to put on: cf. F. indusie the covering of the seed spots of ferns.] (Bot.) (a) A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower. (b) The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet. (c) A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.

Industrial
(In*dus"tri*al) a. [Cf. F. industriel, LL. industrialis. See Industry.] Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.

The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration.

M. Arnold.

Industrial exhibition, a public exhibition of the various industrial products of a country, or of various countries. — Industrial school, a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; also, a school for educating neglected children, and training them to habits of industry.

Industrialism
(In*dus"tri*al*ism) n.

1. Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill.

2. The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor.

Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness.

H. Spencer.

Industrially
(In*dus"tri*al*ly), adv. With reference to industry.

Industrious
(In*dus"tri*ous) a. [L. industrius, industriosus: cf. F. industrieux. See Industry.]

1. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; — commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor.

Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to the established government.

Sir W. Temple.

2. Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim; as, he was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious mischief maker.

Industrious to seek out the truth of all things.

Spenser.

— In*dus"tri*ous*ly, adv. — In*dus"tri*ous*ness, n.

Industry
(In"dus*try) n.; pl. Industries [L. industria, cf. industrius diligent; of uncertain origin: cf. F. industrie.]

1. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; — opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago.

A. Smith.

2. Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

3. (Polit. Econ.) Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

Syn. — Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity; laboriousness; attention. See Diligence.