indigo berry

Bot.: Randia latifolia . boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, much commended by Roxburg. I. anil is the West Indian indigo. Its powdered leaf is administered in hepatitis. I. argentea is cultivated in India and the Barbary States, and I. disperma in parts of America. 145 2. Not pointed, aimed, or done directly at or against an object; not tending or leading to a purpose, object, or aim, by the plainest and most obvious means or course, but obliquely and consequentially; not open or straightforward; as, an indirect accusation, an indirect attack. "They may be under no temptation to supply themse ves by indirect ways." -Burnet : Own Time (Conc.). 3. Not resulting directly or immediately from a cause, but following consequentially and remotely; as, indirect damage, indirect claims. 4. Not fair, not honest; tending or intended to mislead or deceive. "Fy, what an indirect and peevish course Is this?" Shakesp.: Richard III., iii. 1. indirect-claims, s . pl . Claims for damages indirectly done. After the American Civil War, claims were made by the United States upon Great Britain for compensation for the damages, direct and indirect, done by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers to the American marine. The Arbitration Committee chosen to decide upon these demands disallowed the indirect claims as being contrary to international law. [ALABAMA.]