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Index Prohibitorius – Indigo Green

Index Prohibitorius

a list of books which may not be read by Roman Catholics, cleric or lay, on pain of excommunication. The first Index Librorum Prohibitorum was published (1564) in the pontificate of Pius IV., and various editions have since appeared.

Indian Oak

a popular name for the teak tree.

Indian Shot

an ornamental plant of the arrow root family found in most tropical countries. The seeds are round, hard, and black, hence the name of Indian shot applied to the plant.

Indian Summer

the name given which generally occurs towards the end to a period of mild summer weather of autumn in the United States.

Indian Red

a silicate of iron, im- saws. By various enactments of Conported from the Persian Gulf.

Indictment

in law, the act of indicting or charging a person with a crime or misdemeanor; the state of being indicted; a formal charge against a person or persons for a crime or misdemeanor. Also a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to and presented on oath by a grand jury.

Indies

the name given by Columbus to his first discoveries in America, which he thought at the time were a part of INDIGO-WHITE India. These lands were afterward termed the West Indies, which name the islands still bear.

Indies

EAST, a collective name vaguely applied to Hindustan, Farther India and the Indian Archipelago. See HINDUSTAN; INDIA.

Indies

WEST. See INDIES.

Indigestion

dyspepsia, difficulty of digestion, with slowness and long retention of the food in the stomach, great distress after eating, uneasiness at the pit of the stomach, fetid eructations, and unaltered ingesta in the stools. Digestion is much retarded, deficiency and abnormality of the gastric juice being a common occurrence.

Indigo Bird

a North American bird of the finch family, a native of the United States, as far N. as the Missouri, which it visits in summer, and of Central America, where it spends the winter.

It is about 5½ inches in length, of a beautiful blue color.

Indigo Green

a green obtained from indigo by adding potash to an alcoholic solution of an alkaline hyposulphate of indigo.