Involve

in-volv', v. [-volved (-volvd'), -volv- ing.] To roll up, intwine, wind round; to envelop in anything which exists on all sides to complicate or make intricate; to connect by way of natural consequence or effect; to include by rational or logical construction, comprise, contain; to overwhelm, embarra ; to take in, catch, entangle, implicate, blend. (Math.) To raise to any a igned power, multiply into itself. [F. involver, L. involvere, -volution, to— roll about, wrap up, in and volvere, to roll.] eve, term Yn, Ice 8dd, tone, 6r 315 INWALL 297 Involv'edne , n. State of being involved. — Involve'ment, n. Act of, or state of"being, etc. — In'- volate, -vo-lut, n. (Geom.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from — called also evolvent. See EvoLUTE. — In'volute, -lu'ted, a. (Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges. — Involu'tion, n. Act of involving; state of being involved; complication; that in which anything involved; envelope. {Gram.) The insertion of clauses between the subject and the verb, in wav which involves or complicates the construction, (Math.] Act or proce of raising a quantity to an. power a igned. [F. L. involutio.] — Involu'cre, kgr, n. °(l?oL) A"whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head. [L.] — Involucel, -vol'usel or in'vo-lu's el, n. (Bot.) A partial or small involucre. [Dim. of involucre.'] In wall, in-wawK, v. [-walled (-wawld'), -ling.] To inclose or fortify with a wall. Wardly etC See ^Sr' £j a, Involucre; Involucel.