Impress-Money. All sums which are paid to men who have been compelled to serve are so called.
IMPRESSION, the effect of an attack upon any place, or body of soldiers.
IMPREST of Money. A term not strictly grammatical, but rendered familiar by its official adoption, signifying sums of money received from time, to time, by persons in public employment, for the current services of the year.
To IMPUGN, to attack, or assault.
IMPULSE, hostile impression.
INACCESSIBLE, not to be approached, in contradiction to accessible.
INCAPABLE. A term of disgrace, which is frequently annexed to military sentences; as, such an officer has been cashiered by the sentence of a general court-martial, and rendered incapable of ever serving his majesty in either a civil or military capacity.
INCH, a well known measure in length, being the 12th part of a foot, and equal to three barley-corns in length. See [Measure].
INCIDENCE, the direction with which one body strikes another; the angle made by that line and the plane of the body struck, is called the [Angle of Incidence], which see.
INCLINAISON, Fr. See Inclination.