Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
   strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
   {Virile}, and cf. {Virtu}.]
   1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
      [Obs.] --Shak.

            Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn.
                                                  --Chapman.

   2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
      production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
      efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.

            Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
            had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.

            A man was driven to depend for his security against
            misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
            syntax.                               --De Quincey.

            The virtue of his midnight agony.     --Keble.

   3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
      material or sensible substance.

            She moves the body which she doth possess, Yet no
            part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir. J.
                                                  Davies.

   4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

            I made virtue of necessity.           --Chaucer.

            In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
            better observed than in Terence, who thought the
            sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
            of sentences.                         --B. Jonson.

   5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
      purity of soul; performance of duty.

            Virtue only makes our bliss below.    --Pope.

            If there's Power above us, And that there is all
            nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must
            delight in virtue.                    --Addison.

   6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
      temperance, of charity, etc. ``The very virtue of
      compassion.'' --Shak. ``Remember all his virtues.''
      --Addison.

   7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
      of women; virginity.

            H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has,
            I should be the last man in the world to attempt to
            corrupt it.                           --Goldsmith.

   8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

            Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
                                                  --Milton.

   {Cardinal virtues}. See under {Cardinal}, a.

   {In}, or {By}, {virtue of}, through the force of; by
      authority of. ``He used to travel through Greece by virtue
      of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
      towns.'' --Addison. ``This they shall attain, partly in
      virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
      piety.'' --Atterbury.

   {Theological virtues}, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
      charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.

Point \Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L.
   punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See
   {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.]
   1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything,
      esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle
      or a pin.

   2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle
      used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others;
      also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point;
      -- called also {pointer}.

   3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined
      termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a
      tract of land extending into the water beyond the common
      shore line.

   4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument,
      as a needle; a prick.

   5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or
      supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither
      parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has
      neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes
      conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of
      which a line is conceived to be produced.

   6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant;
      hence, the verge.

            When time's first point begun Made he all souls.
                                                  --Sir J.
                                                  Davies.

   7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the
      divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed
      in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a
      stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence,
      figuratively, an end, or conclusion.

            And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer.

            Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope.

   8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative
      position, or to indicate a transition from one state or
      position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position
      or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of
      depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by
      tenpoints. ``A point of precedence.'' --Selden. ``Creeping
      on from point to point.'' --Tennyson.

            A lord full fat and in good point.    --Chaucer.

   9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or
      character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a
      peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as,
      the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story,
      etc.

            He told him, point for point, in short and plain.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon.

            Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ?
                                                  --Milton.

   10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an
       argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp.,
       the proposition to be established; as, the point of an
       anecdote. ``Here lies the point.'' --Shak.

             They will hardly prove his point.    --Arbuthnot.

   11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a
       punctilio.

             This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak.

             [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser.

   12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or
       time; as:
       (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or
           characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of
           perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a
           tune. ``Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a
           flourish, but a point of war.'' --Sir W. Scott.
       (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note,
           to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half,
           as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a
           half note equal to three quarter notes.

   13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or
       zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the
       intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere,
       and named specifically in each case according to the
       position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the
       solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points,
       etc. See {Equinoctial Nodal}.

   14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the
       escutcheon. See {Escutcheon}.

   15. (Naut.)
       (a) One of the points of the compass (see {Points of the
           compass}, below); also, the difference between two
           points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.
       (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See
           {Reef point}, under {Reef}.

   16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together
       certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott.

   17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels
       point. See Point lace, below.

   18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.]

   19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
       [Cant, U. S.]

   20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side,
       about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in
       advance of, the batsman.

   21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game;
       as, the dog came to a point. See {Pointer}.

   22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of
       type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica
       type. See {Point system of type}, under {Type}.

   23. A tyne or snag of an antler.

   24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board.

   25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as,
       tierce point.

   Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the
         sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics,
         perspective, and physics, but generally either in the
         geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition
         of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or
         qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the
         specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon
         point, dry point, freezing point, melting point,
         vanishing point, etc.

   {At all points}, in every particular, completely; perfectly.
      --Shak.

   {At point}, {In point}, {At}, {In}, or On, {the point}, as
      near as can be; on the verge; about (see {About}, prep.,
      6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of
      speaking. ``In point to fall down.'' --Chaucer. ``Caius
      Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered
      himself so valiantly as brought day on his side.''
      --Milton.

   {Dead point}. (Mach.) Same as {Dead center}, under {Dead}.

   {Far point} (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at
      which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the
      nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either
      with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with
      each eye separately (monocular near point).

   {Nine points of the law}, all but the tenth point; the
      greater weight of authority.

   {On the point}. See {At point}, above.

   {Point lace}, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished
      from that made on the pillow.

   {Point net}, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels
      lace (Brussels ground).

   {Point of concurrence} (Geom.), a point common to two lines,
      but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for
      instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base.

   {Point of contrary flexure}, a point at which a curve changes
      its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and
      concavity change sides.

   {Point of order}, in parliamentary practice, a question of
      order or propriety under the rules.

   {Point of sight} (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the
      point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the
      spectator.

   {Point of view}, the relative position from which anything is
      seen or any subject is considered.

   {Points of the compass} (Naut.), the thirty-two points of
      division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the
      corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is
      supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the
      directions of east, west, north, and south, are called
      cardinal points, and the rest are named from their
      respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N.,
      N. E., etc. See Illust. under {Compass}.

   {Point paper}, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil
      for transferring a design.

   {Point system of type}. See under {Type}.

   {Singular point} (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses
      some property not possessed by points in general on the
      curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc.

   {To carry one's point}, to accomplish one's object, as in a
      controversy.

   {To make a point of}, to attach special importance to.

   {To make}, or {gain}, {a point}, accomplish that which was
      proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or
      position.

   {To mark}, or {score}, {a point}, as in billiards, cricket,
      etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run,
      etc.

   {To strain a point}, to go beyond the proper limit or rule;
      to stretch one's authority or conscience.

   {Vowel point}, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and
      ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the
      consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or
      vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.

In \In\, prep. [AS. in; akin to D. & G. in, Icel. [=i], Sw. &
   Dan. i, OIr. & L. in, Gr. 'en. [root]197. Cf. 1st {In-},
   {Inn}.]
   The specific signification of in is situation or place with
   respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It
   is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving
   within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any
   kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing,
   either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it
   approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is
   interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among. It
   is used:

   1. With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston;
      he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.

            The babe lying in a manger.           --Luke ii. 16.

            Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west. --Shak.

            Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude.
                                                  --Gibbon.

            Matter for censure in every page.     --Macaulay.

   2. With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is
      in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light. ``Fettered
      in amorous chains.'' --Shak.

            Wrapt in sweet sounds, as in bright veils.
                                                  --Shelley.

   3. With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the
      part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first
      regiment in the army.

            Nine in ten of those who enter the ministry.
                                                  --Swift.

   4. With reference to physical surrounding, personal states,
      etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is
      in darkness; to live in fear.

            When shall we three meet again, In thunder,
            lightning, or in rain?                --Shak.

   5. With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence
      considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in
      one's favor. ``In sight of God's high throne.'' --Milton.

            Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh.
                                                  --Cowper.

   6. With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain
      limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as,
      to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in
      death; to put our trust in God.

            He would not plunge his brother in despair.
                                                  --Addison.

            She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets.
                                                  --Fielding.

   7. With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it
      happened in the last century; in all my life.

   {In as much as}, or {Inasmuch as}, in the degree that; in
      like manner as; in consideration that; because that;
      since. See {Synonym} of {Because}, and cf. {For as much
      as}, under {For}, prep.

   {In that}, because; for the reason that. ``Some things they
      do in that they are men . . .; some things in that they
      are men misled and blinded with error.'' --Hooker.

   {In the name of}, in behalf of; on the part of; by authority;
      as, it was done in the name of the people; -- often used
      in invocation, swearing, praying, and the like.

   {To be in for it}.
      (a) To be in favor of a thing; to be committed to a
          course.
      (b) To be unable to escape from a danger, penalty, etc.
          [Colloq.]

   {To be} (or {keep}) {in with}.
      (a) To be close or near; as, to keep a ship in with the
          land.
      (b) To be on terms of friendship, familiarity, or intimacy
          with; to secure and retain the favor of. [Colloq.]

   Syn: Into; within; on; at. See {At}.

In \In\, n.

   Note: [Usually in the plural.]
   1. One who is in office; -- the opposite of {out}.

   2. A re["e]ntrant angle; a nook or corner.

   {Ins and outs}, nooks and corners; twists and turns.

In \In\, v. t.
   To inclose; to take in; to harvest. [Obs.]

         He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave
         to in the crop.                          --Shak.

In \In\, adv.
   1. Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an
      adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the
      representative of an adverbial phrase, the context
      indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the
      situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the
      Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and
      out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side
      was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e.,
      into the house).

            Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with ours.
                                                  --Lamb.

   Note: The sails of a vessel are said, in nautical language,
         to be in when they are furled, or when stowed. In
         certain cases in has an adjectival sense; as, the in
         train (i. e., the incoming train); compare up grade,
         down grade, undertow, afterthought, etc.

   2. (Law) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a
      holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by
      purchase; in of the seisin of her husband. --Burrill.

   {In and in breeding}. See under {Breeding}.

   {In and out} (Naut.), through and through; -- said of a
      through bolt in a ship's side. --Knight.

   {To be in}, to be at home; as, Mrs. A. is in.

   {To come in}. See under {Come}.

Source : WordNet®

in
     adj 1: holding office; "the in party" [syn: {in(p)}]
     2: directed or bound inward; "took the in bus"; "the in basket"
        [syn: {in(a)}]
     3: currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder
        pads are in"

in
     adv 1: to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"
            [syn: {inwards}, {inward}]
     2: inside an enclosed space [ant: {out}]

in
     n 1: a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot [syn: {inch}]
     2: a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small
        quantities in sphalerite [syn: {indium}, {atomic number 49}]
     3: a state in midwestern United States [syn: {Indiana}, {Hoosier
        State}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

in
     
         The {country code} for India.
     
        (1999-01-27)