_Implement_, Tool, a Property or Fool, easily engag’d in any (tho’ difficult or Dangerous) Enterprize. _Importunate_, Dunning, pressing. _Importunity of Friends_, the stale Excuse for coming out in Print, when Friends know nothing of the Matter. _Inadvertency_, any slip or false step, for want of Thinking and Reflection. _Inching-in_, Encroaching upon. _One of his Inches_, of his Size or Stature. _Won by Inches_, dearly or by little and little. _Give you an Inch and you’ll take an Ell_, of one that presumes much on little Encouragement. _Incog_, for Incognito, a Man of Character or Quality concealed or in disguise. _Incongruous_, or _an Incongruity_; Treating any Person not according to his Character, or appearing in any Country, without conforming to the Habits and Customs of the Place, as teaching a General the Art of War, talking with an Ambassador without his Language, or the help of an Interpreter, moving the Hat to _Turks_, that never stirr their Turbants, or calling for a Chair with such Nations, as sit alwaies crosse-legg’d upon Carpets. _Indecorum_, any violation of the Measures of Congruity, in Story, Painting, or Poetry, as introducing Persons together that are not Contemporaries, and of the same Age, or representing them with Habits, Arms or Inventions, unknown to their Times, as the _Romans_ with Gunns or Drumms, which wou’d be no less Preposterous and Absurd than Painting the Noblemen of _Venice_ on Horseback, or describing the _West Indians_ before the Arrival of the _Spaniards_, with the Shipping, Horses, and Arms of the _Europeans_. _Indulto_, his Catholic Majesty’s Permission to the Merchants to unlade the Galeons, after his Demands are adjusted. _In his Ale_ or _Beer_, Drunk, tho’ it be by having too much of that in him. _Iniskilling-men_, fam’d for their Prowess, in the late Irish Wars; also the Royal Regiment (of Citizens) in derision so called, soon raised, and as soon laid down. _Inke_, the Neck from the Head to the Body of any Bird the Hawk doth prey upon. _Inkle_, Tape. _As great at two Inkle-makers_, or as great as Cup and Cann. _Inlayed_, _well inlayed_, at ease in his Fortune, or full of Money. _Inmates_, Supernumeraries, who have no House or Being of their own, and yet are no Members of the House or Family they Live in, from whom they differ in the same Nature, as the Excrescences of Trees do from the Fruits either Genuin or Grafted; as Misletoe of the Oak, Galls, _&c._ differ from the Mast or Acorns. _Insipids_, Block-heads; also things that are castless. _Interlopers_, Hangers on, retainers to, or dependers upon other folks; also Medlers and Busy-bodies, intruders into other Men’s Professions, and those that intercept the Trade of a Company, being not legally authorized. _Intrigues_, Finesses, Tricks of War, or State, as Court-tricks, Law-quirks, tho’ in War they are rather called Stratagems. _Intriguing_, Plotting, Tricking, Designing, full of Tricks and Subtilties.