ingoes

Noun

ingo (plural ingoes)

1. The frame of a door, window, fireplace, or similar structure.
   • The ingoes of a second window in the wing of the Tower at first floor level were found in the east wall. The masonry of one of these ingoes has been incorporated in the north ingo of the large slapping at this part of the College foyer.1969, The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club - Volume 33, Part 1
2. A substance or thing that has gone in.
   • An accurate record was kept of all of the ingo, and all the outgo from the cows.1890, Annual Report of the U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station for Dakota
3. The act or process of going in.
   • We may pass by a large number of truly mental phenomena as not being necessarily attended with consciousness, and in these the relation of the transformation of Energy, or the doing of work, is probably the same as obtains in ordinary vital or metabolic action, viz., the ingo of force through...1874, John Gordon, Stewart Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life, page 231