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<p><hw>I</hw> <pr>(&imacr;)</pr>. <sn>1.</sn> <def>I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Ph&oelig;nician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Ph&oelig;nician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long <xex>e</xex> as in <xex>mete</xex>. Etymologically I is most closely related to <xex>e</xex>, <xex>y</xex>, <xex>j</xex>, <xex>g</xex>; as in d<xex>i</xex>nt, d<xex>e</xex>nt, b<xex>e</xex>verage, L. b<xex>i</xex>bere; E. k<xex>i</xex>n, AS. c<xex>y</xex>nn; E. th<xex>i</xex>n, AS. &thorn;<xex>y</xex>nne; E. domin<xex>i</xex>on, don<xex>j</xex>on, dun<xex>g</xex>eon.</def>
   In English I has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in <xex>p&imacr;ne</xex>, <xex>&imacr;ce</xex>; and the short sound, as in <xex>p&ibreve_;n</xex>. It has also three other sounds: (<xex>a</xex>) That of <xex>e</xex> in <xex>term</xex>, as in <xex>thirst</xex>. (<xex>b</xex>) That of <xex>e</xex> in <xex>mete</xex> (in words of foreign origin), as in <xex>machine</xex>, <xex>pique</xex>, <xex>regime</xex>. (<xex>c</xex>) That of consonant <xex>y</xex> (in many words in which it precedes another vowel), as in <xex>bunion</xex>, <xex>million</xex>, <xex>filial</xex>, <xex>Christian</xex>, etc. It enters into several digraphs, as in <xex>fail</xex>, <xex>field</xex>, <xex>seize</xex>, <xex>feign</xex>. <xex>friend</xex>; and with <xex>o</xex> often forms a proper diphtong, as in <xex>oil</xex>, <xex>join</xex>, <xex>coin</xex>.</p>

<p>See <xex>Guide to Pronunciation</xex>, &sect;&sect; 98-106.<br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>The dot which we place over the small or lower case <ex>i</ex> dates only from the 14th century. The sounds of I and J were originally represented by the same character, and even after the introduction of the form J into English dictionaries, words containing these letters were, till a comparatively recent time, classed together.</note><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>In our old authors, <it>I</it> was often used for <it>ay</it> (or <it>aye</it>), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I-</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>prefix.</pos> <def>See <er>Y-</er>.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I</hw> <pr>(&imacr;)</pr>, <pos>pron.</pos> <nmorph>[<pos>poss.</pos> <er>My</er> <pr>(m&imacr;)</pr> or <er>Mine</er> <pr>(m&imacr;n)</pr>; <pos>object.</pos> <er>Me</er> <pr>(m&emacr;)</pr>. <plu><it>pl.</it> <pos>nom.</pos> <plw>We</plw> <pr>(w&emacr;)</pr>; <pos>poss.</pos> <plw>Our</plw> <pr>(our)</pr> or <plw>Ours</plw> <pr>(ourz)</pr>; <pos>object.</pos> <plw>Us</plw> <pr>(&ubreve;s)</pr>.</plu>]</nmorph> <ety>[OE. <ets>i</ets>, <ets>ich</ets>, <ets>ic</ets>, AS. <ets>ic</ets>; akin to OS. &amp; D. <ets>ik</ets>, OHG. <ets>ih</ets>, G. <ets>ich</ets>, Icel. <ets>ek</ets>, Dan. <ets>jeg</ets>, Sw. <ets>jag</ets>, Goth. <ets>ik</ets>, OSlav. <ets>az'</ets>, Russ. <ets>ia</ets>, W. <ets>i</ets>, L. <ets>ego</ets>, Gr. <grk>'egw`</grk>, <grk>'egw`n</grk>, Skr. <ets>aham</ets>. &radic;179.  Cf. <er>Egoism</er>.]</ety> <def>The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>IAA</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>Indoleacetic acid, a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.</def> <mark>[Acronym]</mark> <br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> indoleacetic acid.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am`a*tol"o*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, medicine + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I"amb</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>iambe</ets>. See <er>Lambus</er>.]</ety> <def>An iambus or iambic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am"bic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>iambicus</ets>, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. <ets>iambique</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; <as>as, an <ex>iambic</ex> foot</as>.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; <as>as, an <ex>iambic</ex> verse; <ex>iambic</ex> meter. See <er>Lambus</er>.</as></def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am"bic</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An iambic foot; an iambus.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A verse composed of iambic feet.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>&hand_; The following couplet consists of iambic verses.</note><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><q>Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame<br/>
In keen | <qex>iam-</qex> | <qex>bics</qex>, but | mild an- | agram.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am"bic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Iambic.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am"bic*al*ly</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am"bize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;.]</ety> <def>To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*am"bus</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> L. <plw>Iambi</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>, E. <plw>Iambuses</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>iambus</ets>, Gr. &unr_;; prob. akin to &unr_; to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. <ets>jacere</ets> to throw.  Cf. <er>Jet</er> a shooting forth.]</ety> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in <pr><xex>&abreve;m&amacr;ns</xex></pr>, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as <xex>invent</xex>; an iambic. See the Couplet under <er>Iambic</er>, <pos>n.</pos></def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>&Verbar;I*an"thi*na</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> L. <plw>Ianthin&aelig;</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>, E. <plw>Ianthinas</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>ianthinus</ets> violet-blue, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; violet + &unr_; flower.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Any gastropod of the genus <gen>Ianthina</gen>, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also <altname>purple shell</altname>, and <altname>violet snail</altname>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>janthina</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>&hand_; It floats at the surface by means of a raft, which it constructs by forming and uniting together air bubbles of hardened mucus. The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus.</note><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*a`tra*lip"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; physician + &unr_; belonging to the &unr_; or anointer, fr. &unr_; to anoint: cf. F. <ets>iatraliptique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Treating diseases by anointing and friction; <as>as, the <ex>iatraliptic</ex> method</as>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>iatroleptic</asp>.]</altsp></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>I*at"ric</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>I*at"ric*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; healing, fr. &unr_; physician, fr. &unr_; to heal.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*a`tro*chem"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*a`tro*chem"ist</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; physician + E. <ets>chemist</ets>.]</ety> <def>A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*a`tro*chem"is*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*a`tro*math`e*mat"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*a`tro*math`e*ma*ti"cian</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; physician + E. <ets>mathematician</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Hist. Med.)</fld> <def>One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the <xex>iatrochemists</xex>.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*be"ri*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to Iberia.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Iberis</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>A genus of Old World herbs and subshrubs including the <stype>candytuft</stype>.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> genus <gen>Iberis</gen>.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ibero-mesornis</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>A sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Lower Cretaceous having a strutlike pectoral bone and vestigial tail; found in Spain; considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds.</def><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I"bex</hw> <pr>(&imacr;"b&ebreve_;ks)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> E. <plw>Ibexes</plw> <pr>(&imacr;"b&ebreve_;ks*&ebreve_;z)</pr>, L. <plw>Ibices</plw> <pr>(&imacr;b"&ibreve_;*s&emacr;z)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[L., a kind of goat, the chamois.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also <altname>steinbok</altname>.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>&hand_; The Alpine ibex (<spn>Capra ibex</spn>) is the best known. The Spanish, or Pyrenean, ibex (<spn>Capra Hispanica</spn>) has smoother and more spreading horns.</note><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>&Verbar;I*bi"dem</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>adv.</pos> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>In the same place; -- abbreviated <abbr>ibid.</abbr> or <abbr>ib.</abbr></def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I"bis</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>ibis</ets>, Gr. &unr_;; of Egyptian origin.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Any bird of the genus <gen>Ibis</gen> and several allied genera, of the family <fam>Ibid&aelig;</fam>, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>&hand_; The sacred ibis of the ancient Egyptians (<spn>Ibis &AElig;thiopica</spn>) has the head and neck black, without feathers. The plumage of the body and wings is white, except the tertiaries, which are lengthened and form a dark purple plume. In ancient times this bird was extensively domesticated in Egypt, but it is now seldom seen so far north. The glossy ibis (<spn>Plegadis autumnalis</spn>), which is widely distributed both in the Old World and the New, has the head and neck feathered, except between the eyes and bill; the scarlet ibis (<spn>Guara rubra</spn>) and the white ibis (<spn>Guara alba</spn>) inhabit the West Indies and South America, and are rarely found in the United States. The wood ibis (<spn>Tantalus loculator</spn>) of America belongs to the Stork family (<spn>Ciconid&aelig;</spn>). See <er>Wood ibis</er>.</note><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>-i*ble</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <def>See <er>-able</er>.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>IBRD</hw> <pos>prop. n.</pos>  <ety>[acronym]</ety> <def>The <org>International Bank for Reconstruction and Development</org>, a <divof><org>United Nations</org></divof> agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.</def> <mark>[acronym]</mark> <br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ibsen</hw> <pos>prop. n.</pos> <def><person>Henrik Ibsen</person> (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> Henrik Ibsen.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ibsenian</hw> <pos>prop. adj.</pos> <def>of or pertaining to <person>Henrik Ibsen</person>.</def><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ib"sen*ism</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>prop. n.</pos> <def>The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of <person>Henrik Ibsen</person> (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.</def><br/>
[<source>Webster 1913 Suppl.</source>]</p>

<p><hw>ibuprofen</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic; <altname>Advil</altname> and <altname>Motrin</altname> and <altname>Nuprin</altname> are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> isobutylphenyl propionic acid, Advil, Motrin, Nuprin.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>-ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <ety>[L. <ets>-icus</ets>, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. <ets>-ique</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A suffix signifying, in general, <xex>relating to</xex>, or <xex>characteristic of</xex>; <as>as, histor<ex>ic</ex>, hygien<ex>ic</ex>, telegraph<ex>ic</ex>, etc.</as></def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its <xex>highest valence</xex>, or with a valence relatively higher than in compounds where the name of the element ends in -<xex>ous</xex>; <as>as, ferr<ex>ic</ex>, sulphur<ex>ic</ex></as>. It is also used in the general sense of <xex>pertaining to</xex>; <as>as, hydr<ex>ic</ex>, sod<ex>ic</ex>, calc<ex>ic</ex></as>.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>icaco</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A small tropical American tree (<spn>Chrysobalanus icaco</spn>) bearing edible plumlike fruit.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum, <spn>Chrysobalanus icaco</spn>.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> cocoa plum, coco plum.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>I*ca"ri*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>Icarius</ets>, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, the mythic son of D&aelig;dalus, who, when flying from Crete on wings cemented with wax, mounted so high that the sun melted the wax, and he fell into the sea.]</ety> <def>Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>ICBM</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[acronym <ets>i</ets>nter<ets>c</ets>ontinental <ets>b</ets>allistic <ets>m</ets>issile]</ety> <def>An intercontinental ballistic missile, a long-range ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.  Contrasted with <contr>IRBM</contr>.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> intercontinental ballistic missile.</syn><br/>
[<source>WordNet 1.5</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ice</hw> <pr>(&imacr;s)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>is</ets>, <ets>iis</ets>, AS. <ets>&imacr;s</ets>; aksin to D. <ets>ijs</ets>, G. <ets>eis</ets>, OHG. <ets>&imacr;s</ets>, Icel. <ets>&imacr;ss</ets>, Sw. <ets>is</ets>, Dan. <ets>iis</ets>, and perh. to E. <ets>iron</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4&deg; C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>&hand_; Water freezes at 32&deg; F. or 0&deg; Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it.</note><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Concreted sugar.</def>  <rj><au>Johnson.</au></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Any substance having the appearance of ice; <as>as, camphor <ex>ice</ex></as>.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Anchor ice</b></col>, <cd>ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or <xex>anchored</xex> to the ground.</cd> -- <col><b>Bay ice</b></col>, <cd>ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.</cd> -- <col><b>Ground ice</b></col>, <cd>anchor ice.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice age</b></col> <fld>(Geol.)</fld>, <cd>the glacial epoch or period. See under <er>Glacial</er>.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice anchor</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice.</cd> <au>Kane.</au> -- <col><b>Ice blink</b></col> <ety>[Dan. <ets>iisblink</ets>]</ety>, <cd>a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice boat</b></col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>Ice box</b></col> <it>or</it> <col><b>Ice chest</b></col></mcol>, <cd>a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice brook</b></col>, <cd>a brook or stream as cold as ice.</cd> <mark>[Poetic]</mark> <au>Shak.</au> -- <col><b>Ice cream</b></col> <ety>[for <ets>iced cream</ets>]</ety>, <cd>cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice field</b></col>, <cd>an extensive sheet of ice.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>Ice float</b></col>, <col><b>Ice floe</b></col></mcol>, <cd>a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice foot</b></col>, <cd>shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt.</cd> <au>Kane.</au> -- <col><b>Ice house</b></col>, <cd>a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice machine</b></col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice master</b></col>. <cd>See <cref>Ice pilot</cref> (below).</cd> -- <col><b>Ice pack</b></col>, <cd>an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice paper</b></col>, <cd>a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; <altname>papier glac&eacute;</altname>.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice petrel</b></col> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld>, <cd>a shearwater (<spn>Puffinus gelidus</spn>) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice pick</b></col>, <cd>a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice pilot</b></col>, <cd>a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also <altname>ice master</altname>.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice pitcher</b></col>, <cd>a pitcher adapted for ice water.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice plow</b></col>, <cd>a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.</cd> <!-- <col><b>ice sculpture</b></col> = a sculpture carved from a block of ice, often used for decorating restaurants. <col><b>ice show</b></col> an entertainment consisting of ice skaters performing figure-skating on a sheet of ice, usually in an arena, often accompanied by music. --> -- <col><b>Ice sludge</b></col>, <cd>bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice spar</b></col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice tongs</b></col>, <cd>large iron nippers for handling ice.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice water</b></col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Water cooled by ice.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Water formed by the melting of ice.</cd> -- <col><b>Ice yacht</b></col>. <cd>See <cref>Ice boat</cref> (above).</cd> -- <col><b>To break the ice</b></col>. <cd>See under <er>Break</er>.</cd> -- <col><b>Water ice</b></col>, <cd>a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.<!-- also called Italian ice? --></cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice</hw> <pr>(&imacr;s)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Iced</conjf> <pr>(&imacr;st)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Icing</conjf> <pr>(&imacr;"s&ibreve_;ng)</pr>.]</vmorph> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"berg`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. <ets>iisbierg</ets>, Sw. <ets>isberg</ets>, properly, a mountain of ice. See <er>Ice</er>, and <er>Berg</er>.]</ety> <def>A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.</def><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; Icebergs are large detached portions of glaciers, which in cold regions often project into the sea.</note><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"bird`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>iceboat</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation; an icebreaker.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> icebreaker.</syn><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>a sailing craft with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice; it is usually propelled by a sail, and sometimes by an engine-powered propeller.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> ice yacht.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"bound`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; <as>as, an <ex>icebound</ex> vessel</as>; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; <as>as, an <ex>icebound</ex> coast</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>icebreaker</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>a ship with a reinforced bow and powerful engines designed to break up layers of ice on waterways and keep channels open for navigation.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> iceboat.</syn><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A remark or action intended to relieve tension or reduce formality when initiating conversation or beginning a speech; it is often a humorous or light remark.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"-built`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Composed of ice.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Loaded with ice.</def> &ldquo;<xex>Ice-built</xex> mountains.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Gray.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>ice"cap`</hw> <pr>(&imacr;s"k&abreve;p`)</pr> <pos>n.</pos> <def>a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).</def><br/>
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<p><hw>ice-clogged</hw> <pos>adj.</pos> <def>having flow restricted by ice; -- of rivers or conduits; <as>as, <ex>ice-clogged</ex> rivers</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>ice-cold</hw> <pos>adj.</pos>  <def>as cold as ice; extremely cold.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>ice-free</hw> <pos>adj.</pos> <def>free of ice and open to travel; -- of water routes; <as>as, an <ex>ice-free</ex> channel in the river</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Iced</hw> <pr>(&imacr;st)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Covered with ice.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn>  <def>Chilled with ice; <as>as, <ex>iced</ex> water; <ex>iced</ex> tea; <ex>iced</ex> coffee</as>; -- of beverages.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; <as>as, <ex>iced</ex> cake</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Iced cream</b></col>. <cd>Same as <cref>Ice cream</cref>, under <er>Ice</er>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"fall`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.</def>  <rj><au>Coleridge.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>ice"house`</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>a building used for storing ice, especially one built partly below ground and insulated so as to preserve ice obtained during the winter from frozen lakes or rivers.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"land*er</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice*lan"dic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice*lan"dic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"land moss`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A kind of lichen (<spn>Cetraria Icelandica</spn>) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"land spar`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction.  Cf. <er>Calcite</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice"man</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Icemen</plw> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr>.</plu> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.</def></p>

<p><!-- The Iceman Cometh (Title of a book) --><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice" plant`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant (<spn>Mesembryanthemum crystallinum</spn>), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass.</def><br/>
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<p><!-- p. 724 --></p>

<p><hw>Ice"quake`</hw> <pr>(&imacr;s"kw&amacr;k`)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice" skate`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr> <pos>n.</pos> <def>A shoe with a metal runner (called a <part>blade</part>) attached to permit the wearer to glide on ice.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ice" skat`er</hw> <pr>(?)</pr> <pos>n.</pos> <def>One who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; a <stype>speed skater</stype> or a <stype>figure skater</stype>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k)</pr>, <pos>pron.</pos> <def>I.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; In the Southern dialect of Early English this is the regular form.  Cf. <er>Ik</er>.</note><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich*neu"mon</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. &unr_; to track or hunt after, fr. <grk>'i`chnos</grk> track, footstep.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Any carnivorous mammal of the genus <gen>Herpestes</gen>, and family <fam>Viverrid&aelig;</fam>.  Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species (<spn>Herpestes ichneumon</spn>), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians.  The common species of India (<spn>Herpestes griseus</spn>), known as the <stype>mongoose</stype>, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Any hymenopterous insect of the family <fam>Ichneumonid&aelig;</fam>, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.</def><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; The female deposits her eggs upon, or in, the bodies of other insects, such as caterpillars, plant lice, etc. The larva lives upon the internal tissues of the insect in which it is parasitic, and finally kills it. Hence, many of the species are beneficial to agriculture by destroying noxious insects.</note><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Ichneumon fly</b></col>. <cd>See <er>Ichneumon</er>, 2.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`neu*mon"i*dan</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the <fam>Ichneumonid&aelig;</fam>, or ichneumon flies.</def> -- <def2><pos>n.</pos> <def>One of the <fam>Ichneumonid&aelig;</fam>.</def></def2><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`neu*mon"i*des</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL. See <er>Ichneumon</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The ichneumon flies.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"nite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'i`chnos</grk> track, footstep.]</ety> <def>A fossil footprint; <as>as, the <ex>ichnites</ex> in the Triassic sandstone</as>.</def>  <rj><au>Page.</au></rj></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ich`no*graph"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ich`no*graph"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ichonographique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich*nog"ra*phy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; <grk>'i`chnos</grk> track, footstep + &unr_; to describe: cf. F. <ets>ichonographie</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Drawing)</fld> <def>A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"no*lite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'i`chnos</grk> track, footstep + <ets>-lite</ets>.]</ety> <def>A fossil footprint; an ichnite.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`no*li*thol"o*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'i`chnos</grk> footstep + <ets>-lith + -logy</ets>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Ichnology</er>.</def>  <rj><au>Hitchcock.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`no*log"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to ichnology.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich*nol"o*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'i`chnos</grk> a footstep + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich*nos"co*py</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'i`chnos</grk> footstep + <ets>-scopy</ets>.]</ety> <def>The search for the traces of anything.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>I"chor</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichw`r</grk>: cf. F. <ets>ichor</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Class. Myth.)</fld> <def>An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;I`chor*h&aelig;"mi*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichw`r</grk> ichor + &unr_; blood.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"chor*ous</hw> <pr>(&imacr;"k&obreve_;r*&ubreve;s)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ichoreux</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thi*din</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k"th&ibreve_;*d&ibreve_;n)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thin</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k"th&ibreve_;n)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk> fish.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thu*lin</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k"th&uuptack_;*l&ibreve_;n)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A substance from the yolk of salmon's eggs.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thus</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k"th&ubreve;s)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>.]</ety> <def>In early Christian and ecclesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for <xex>fish</xex>, which combined the initials of the Greek words <grk>Ihsoy^s</grk>, <grk>Christo`s</grk>, <grk>Qeoy^ Gio`s</grk> <grk>Swth`r</grk>, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thy*ic</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k"th&ibreve_;*&ibreve_;k)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Like, or pertaining to, fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ich"thy*o*col</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ich`thy*o*col"la</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>ichthyocolla</ets>, Gr. &unr_;; <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; glue: cf. F. <ets>ichthyocolle</ets>.]</ety> <def>Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*o*cop"ro*lite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + E. <ets>coprolite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Fossil dung of fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*o*dor"u*lite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; a spear + <ets>-lite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>One of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*og"ra*phy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk> + <ets>graphy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ichthyographie</ets>.]</ety> <def>A treatise on fishes.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ich"thy*oid</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ich`thy*oid"al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;: <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <grk>e'i^dos</grk> form.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thy*ol</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + (prob.) L. <ets>ol</ets>eum oil; but cf. <er>Ichthyolite</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>An oily substance prepared by the dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*ol"a*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; to worship.]</ety> <def>Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols.</def>  <rj><au>Layard.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thy*o*lite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <ets>-lite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ich`thy*o*log"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ich`thy*o*log"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ichthyologique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to ichthyology.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*ol"o*gist</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ichthyologiste</ets>.]</ety> <def>One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*ol"o*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <ets>-logy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ichthyologie</ets>.]</ety> <def>The natural history of fishes; that branch of zo&ouml;logy which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thy*o*man`cy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <ets>-mancy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ichthyomancie</ets>.]</ety> <def>Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*o*mor"pha</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; fish-shaped; <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <grk>morfh`</grk> form.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The Urodela.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ich`thy*o*mor"phic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ich`thy*o*mor"phous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Ichthyomorpha</er>.]</ety> <def>Fish-shaped; <as>as, the <ex>ichthyomorphic</ex> idols of ancient Assyria</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*oph"a*gist</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Ichthyophagous</er>.]</ety> <def>One who eats, or subsists on, fish.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*oph"a*gous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>ichthyophagus</ets>, Gr. &unr_;; <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <grk>fagei^n</grk> to eat.]</ety> <def>Eating, or subsisting on, fish.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*oph"a*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqyofagi`a</grk>: cf. F. <ets>ichthyophagie</ets>.]</ety> <def>The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*oph*thal"mite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; eye.]</ety> <def>See <er>Apophyllite</er>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*oph*thi"ra</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; a louse.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*op"si*da</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; appearance.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*op`te*ryg"i*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL. See <er>Ichthyopterygium</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>See <er>Ichthyosauria</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*op`te*ryg"i*um</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; a fin.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The typical limb, or lateral fin, of fishes.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*or"nis</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; bird.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebr&aelig;, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order <ord>Odontotorm&aelig;</ord>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich"thy*o*saur</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ichthyosaure</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>One of the Ichthyosaura.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*o*sau"ri*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL. See <er>Ichthyosaurus</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also <altname>Ichthyopterygia</altname>. They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*o*sau"ri*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria.</def> -- <def2><pos>n.</pos> <def>One of the Ichthyosauria.</def></def2><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*o*sau"rus</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Ichthyosauri</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + <grk>say^ros</grk> a lizard.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebr&aelig;, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, O&ouml;litic, and Cretaceous formations.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich`thy*o"sis</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk> fish.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also <altname>fishskin</altname>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ich`thy*ot"ic</wf> <pr>(#)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*ot"o*mist</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>One skilled in ichthyotomy.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ich`thy*ot"o*my</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk>, <grk>-y`os</grk>, a fish + &unr_; to cut.]</ety> <def>The anatomy or dissection of fishes.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ich"thys</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'ichqy`s</grk> a fish.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Ichthus</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"ci*cle</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>isikel</ets>, AS. <ets>&imacr;sgicel</ets>; <ets>&imacr;s</ets> ice + <ets>gicel</ets> icicle; akin to Icel. <ets>j&ouml;kull</ets>; cf. Gael. <ets>eigh</ets> ice, Ir. <ets>aigh</ets>.]</ety> <def>A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; <as>as, the <ex>icicles</ex> on the eaves of a house</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"ci*cled</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Having icicles attached.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"ci*ly</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In an icy manner; coldly.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Faultily faultless, <qex>icily</qex> regular, splendidly null,<br/>
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<p><hw>I"ci*ness</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"cing</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ic"kle</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>ikil</ets>. See <er>Icicle</er>.]</ety> <def>An icicle.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>icky</hw> <pos>adj.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful.</def> <mark>[informal]</mark> <wns>[wns=1]</wns><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky.</syn><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn>  <def>sticky; <as>as, <ex>icky</ex>, sticky goo</as>.</def> <wns>[wns=2]</wns><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> gooey.</syn><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Overly sentimental; -- of stories or dramas.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>i"con</hw> <pr>(&imacr;"k&obreve_;n)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <altsp>[Also spelled <asp>ikon</asp>.]</altsp> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <grk>e'ikw`n</grk>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Netherlands whose names and <qex>icons</qex> are published.</q> <rj><qau>Hakewill.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Gr. Ch.)</fld> <def>A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church.  The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>a symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <fld>(Computers)</fld> <def>a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.</def> <note>In a graphical user interface, pointing to and clicking on an icon may cause any of several types of actions, such as opening a file or executing a program, depending on how the icon properties are defined.</note><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>any object of uncritical devotion.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The former congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is still an <qex>icon</qex> to many party members.</q> <qau>The New York Times, April 16, 1998</qau><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <def>an outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*con"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"con*ism</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>iconismus</ets>, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to mold, delineate, fr. <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image: cf. F. <ets>iconisme</ets>.]</ety> <def>The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit <qex>iconisms</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Cudworth.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"con*ize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>e'ikoni`zein</grk>.]</ety> <def>To form an image or likeness of.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Cudworth.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*con"o*clasm</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>iconoclasme</ets>. See <er>Iconoclast</er>.]</ety> <def>The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*con"o*clast</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> image + &unr_; to break: cf. F. <ets>iconoclaste</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*con`o*clas"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.</def>  <rj><au>Milman.</au></rj></p>

<p><mhw>{<hw>I*con"o*dule</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>I*con"o*du`list</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image + &unr_; a slave.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One who serves images; -- opposed to an <contr>iconoclast</contr>.</def>  <rj><au>Schaff-Herzog Encyc.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*con"o*graph</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Iconography</er>.]</ety> <def>An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nog"ra*pher</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A maker of images.</def>  <rj><au>Fairholt.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*con`o*graph"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Of or pertaining to iconography.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; <as>as, an <ex>icongraphic</ex> encyclop&aelig;dia</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nog"ra*phy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; a sketch or description; <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image + &unr_; of describe: cf. F. <ets>iconographie</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; <as>as, the <ex>iconography</ex> of the ancients</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>The study of representative art in general.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Christian iconography</b></col>, <cd>the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nol"a*ter</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image + &unr_; to worship: cf. F. <ets>iconol&acirc;tre</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who worships images.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nol"a*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Iconolater</er>.]</ety> <def>The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from <contr>idolatry</contr>, the worship of images themselves.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nol"o*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image + &unr_; discourse: cf. F. <ets>iconologie</ets>.]</ety> <def>The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images.  Cf. <er>Iconography</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nom"a*chy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; a war against images; <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image + &unr_; fight.]</ety> <def>Hostility to images as objects of worship.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*no*ma"ni*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL. See <er>Icon</er>, and <er>Mania</er>.]</ety> <def>A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*nom"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> image + &unr_; fight.]</ety> <def>Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Sir T. Browne.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*noph"i*list</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>e'ikw`n</grk> an image + &unr_; to love.]</ety> <def>A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*sa*he"dral</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Icosahedron</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>Having twenty equal sides or faces.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*sa*he"dron</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; twenty + &unr_; seat, base, fr. &unr_; to sit.]</ety> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Regular icosahedron</b></col>, <cd>one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangles meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;I`co*san"dri*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; twenty +&unr_;, &unr_;, man, male: cf. F. <ets>icosandrie</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A Linn&aelig;an class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>I`co*san"dri*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>I`co*san"drous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`co*si*tet`ra*he"dron</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; twenty + &unr_;, combining form of &unr_; four + &unr_; seat, base.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>-ics</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <def>A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoust<xex>ics</xex>, mathemat<xex>ics</xex>, dynam<xex>ics</xex>, statist<xex>ics</xex>, polit<xex>ics</xex>, athlet<xex>ics</xex>.</def><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; The names sciences ending in <xex>ics</xex>, as <xex>mathematics</xex>, <xex>mechanics</xex>, <xex>metaphysics</xex>, <xex>optics</xex>, etc., are, with respect to their form, nouns in the plural number. The plural form was probably introduced to mark the complex nature of such sciences; and it may have been in imitation of the use of the Greek plurals &unr_;, &unr_;, &unr_;, &unr_;, etc., to designate parts of Aristotle's writings. Previously to the present century, nouns ending in <xex>ics</xex> were construed with a verb or a pronoun in the plural; but it is now generally considered preferable to treat them as singular. In Greman we have <xex>die Mathematik</xex>, <xex>die Mechanik</xex>, etc., and in French <xex>la metaphysique</xex>, <xex>la optique</xex>, etc., corresponding to our <xex>mathematics</xex>, <xex>mechanics</xex>, <xex>metaphysics</xex>, <xex>optics</xex>, etc.<br/>
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<q><qex>Mathematics have</qex> for their object the consideration of whatever is capable of being numbered or measured.</q> <rj><qau>John Davidson.</qau></rj><pbr/>
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<q>Ethics is the sciences of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents.</q> <rj><qau>Sir W. Hamilton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<q>All parts of knowledge have their origin in <qex>metaphysics</qex>, and finally, perhaps, revolve into <qex>it</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>De Quincey.</qau></rj><br/>
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<q><qex>Mechanics</qex>, like pure <qex>mathematics</qex>, may be geometrical, or may be analytical; that is, <it>it</it> may treat space either by a direct consideration of its properties, or by a symbolical representation.</q> <rj><qau>Whewell.</qau></rj>
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<p><hw>Ic*ter"ic</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k*t&ebreve_;r"&ibreve_;k)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A remedy for the jaundice.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ic*ter"ic</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k*t&ebreve_;r"&ibreve_;k)</pr>, <hw>Ic*ter"ic*al</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;k*t&ebreve_;r"&ibreve_;*k&aitalic_;l)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>ictericus</ets>, Gr. <grk>'ikteriko`s</grk>, fr. <grk>'i`kteros</grk> jaundice: cf. F. <ets>ict&eacute;rique</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Good against the jaundice.</def>  <rj><au>Johnson.</au></rj></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ic`ter*i"tious</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ic*ter"i*tous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <def>Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ic"ter*oid</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; jaundice + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; <as>as, an <ex>icteroid</ex> tint or complexion</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ic"te*rus</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL. See <er>Icteric</er>, <pos>a.</pos>]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The jaundice.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ic"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>ictus</ets> blow.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>H. Bushnell.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ictiobus</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>A genus of fishes comprising the buffalofishes.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> genus <gen>Ictiobus</gen>.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>ictodosaur</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>An extinct reptile intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ictodosauria</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>An order of extinct reptiles of the Upper Triassic.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> order <ord>Ictodosauria</ord>.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Ic"tus</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L., fr. <ets>icere</ets>, <ets>ictum</ets>, to strike.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word.  Cf. <er>Arsis</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"cy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <amorph>[<pos>Compar.</pos> <adjf>Icier</adjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>superl.</pos> <adjf>Iciest</adjf>.]</amorph> <ety>[AS. <ets>&imacr;sig</ets>. See <er>Ice</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.</def> &ldquo;<xex>Icy</xex> chains.&rdquo; <au>Shak.</au> &ldquo;<xex>Icy</xex> region.&rdquo; <au>Boyle.</au> &ldquo;<xex>Icy</xex> seas.&rdquo; <au>Pope.</au><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.</def><br/>
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<p><q><qex>Icy</qex> was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection.</q> <rj><qau>Motley.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"cy-pearl`ed</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Spangled with ice.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Mounting up in <qex>icy-pearled</qex> car.</q> <rj><qau>Milton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><mhw><hw>ID</hw>, <hw>I.D.</hw></mhw> <pr>(&imacr;`d&emacr;")</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <mark>[capitalized]</mark> <ety>[shortened form of <ets>identification</ets>.]</ety>  <def>any document testifying to teh identity of the bearer, especially a card or badge.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> ID.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I'd</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <def>A contraction from <sig>I would</sig> or <sig>I had</sig>; <as>as, <ex>I'd</ex> go if I could</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (<spn>Leuciscus idus</spn> or <spn>Idus idus</spn>) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called <altname>orfe</altname> in Germany.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>id</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Psychoanalysis)</fld> <def>That part of a person's psyche which is the unconscious source of impulses seeking gratification or pleasure; the impulses are usually modified by the <contr>ego</contr> and <contr>superego</contr> before being acted upon.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Idahoan</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>a resident of Idaho.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*da"li*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to <etsep>Idalium</etsep>, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.</def> &ldquo;<xex>Idalian</xex> Aphrodit&eacute;.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Tennyson.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ide</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Same as first <er>Id</er>, the fish.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>-ide</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A suffix used to denote: <sd>(a)</sd> The <xex>nonmetallic</xex>, or <xex>negative</xex>, element or radical in a binary compound; <as>as, ox<ex>ide</ex>, sulph<ex>ide</ex>, chlor<ex>ide</ex></as>. <sd>(b)</sd> A compound which is an <xex>anhydride</xex>; <as>as, glycol<ex>ide</ex>, phthal<ex>ide</ex></as>. <sd>(c)</sd> Any one of a series of derivatives; <as>as, indogen<ex>ide</ex>, glucos<ex>ide</ex>, etc.</as></def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Ideas</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>idea</ets>, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to see; akin to E. <ets>wit</ets>: cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;e</ets>. See <er>Wit</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Her sweet <qex>idea</qex> wandered through his thoughts.</q> <rj><qau>Fairfax.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Being the right <qex>idea</qex> of your father<br/>
Both in your form and nobleness of mind.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its <qex>idea</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>P. Browne.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Alice had not the slightest <qex>idea</qex> what latitude was.</q> <rj><qau>L. Caroll.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call <qex>idea</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Locke.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; <as>as, an essential <ex>idea</ex>; the <ex>idea</ex> of development.</as></def><br/>
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<p><q>That fellow seems to me to possess but one <qex>idea</qex>, and that is a wrong one.</q> <rj><qau>Johnson.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>What is now &ldquo;<qex>idea</qex>&rdquo; for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, --<br/>
&ldquo;how it showed . . . <br/>
Answering his great <qex>idea</qex>,&rdquo; --<br/>
to its present use, when this person &ldquo;has an <qex>idea</qex> that the train has started,&rdquo; and the other &ldquo;had no <qex>idea</qex> that the dinner would be so bad!&rdquo;</q> <rj><qau>Trench.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.</def><br/>
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<p><q>I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an <qex>idea</qex> of undertaking while there the translation of the work.</q> <rj><qau>W. Irving.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <def>A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>7.</sn> <def>A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Thence to behold this new-created world,<br/>
The addition of his empire, how it showed<br/>
In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,<br/>
Answering his great <qex>idea</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Milton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; &ldquo;In England, Locke may be said to have been the first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality. When, in common language, employed by Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is Platonic.&rdquo;</note>  <rj><au>Sir W. Hamilton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><mcol><col><b>Abstract idea</b></col>, <col><b>Association of ideas</b></col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Abstract</er>, <er>Association</er>, etc.</cd></cs></p>

<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image; perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation; judgment; consideration; view; design; intention; purpose; plan; model; pattern.</syn> -- <usage>There is scarcely any other word which is subjected to such abusive treatment as is the word <xex>idea</xex>, in the very general and indiscriminative way in which it is employed, as it is used variously to signify almost any act, state, or content of thought.</usage><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>idealis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;al</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; <as>as, <ex>ideal</ex> knowledge</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; <as>as, <ex>ideal</ex> beauty</as>.</def>  <rj><au>Byron.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>There will always be a wide interval between practical and <qex>ideal</qex> excellence.</q> <rj><qau>Rambler.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.</def> &ldquo;Planning <xex>ideal</xex> common wealth.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Southey.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Teaching the doctrine of idealism; <as>as, the <ex>ideal</ex> theory or philosophy</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>Imaginary.</def></p>

<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>ideal</qex> is to be attained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the <qex>ideal</qex> of the beauty and proportion of the human frame.</q> <rj><qau>Fleming.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Beau ideal</b></col>. <cd>See <er>Beau ideal</er>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"a*less</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Destitute of an idea.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>idealise</hw> <pos>v.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Same as <er>idealize</er>.</def> <mark>[Chiefly Brit.]</mark> <br/>
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<p><hw>idealisation</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Same as <er>idealization</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al*ism</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;alisme</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The quality or state of being ideal.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Conception of the ideal; imagery.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Philos.)</fld> <def>The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns; -- opposed to <contr>realism</contr>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>a belief in the feasibility of the implementation of ideal principles and noble goals, and the practice or habit of pursuing such goals; -- opposed to <contr>realism</contr> and <contr>cynicism</contr>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al*ist</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;aliste</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>One who holds the doctrine of idealism, in any sense.  In senses 4 and 5 of <er>idealism</er>, opposed to <contr>realist</contr>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de`al*is"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*al"i*ty</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Idealities</plw> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr>.</plu> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The quality or state of being ideal.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Phren.)</fld> <def>The conceptive faculty.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de`al*i*za"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The act or process of idealizing.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.</def> <wns>[wns=1]</wns><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>something that exists only as an idea.</def> <wns>[wns=2]</wns><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>a protrayal of something as ideal.</def> <wns>[wns=3]</wns><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> glorification.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al*ize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Idealized</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Idealizing</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To make ideal; to consider as ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; <as>as, to <ex>idealize</ex> real life</as>.</def> <wns>[wns=1]</wns><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>To treat in an ideal manner. See <er>Idealization</er>, 2.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>to form ideals.</def> <wns>[wns=2]</wns><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al*ize</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;aliser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To form ideals.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al*i`zer</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>An idealist.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"al*ly</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de`a*log"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"a*logue</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idea</ets> + <ets>-logue</ets>, as in theo<ets>logue</ets>: cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;ologue</ets>.]</ety> <def>One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Mrs. Browning.</au></rj></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>I*de"at</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>I*de"ate</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[LL. <ets>ideatum</ets>. See <er>Idea</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"ate</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To form in idea; to fancy.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>ideated</qex> man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God.</q> <rj><qau>Sir T. Browne.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*a"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of <qex>ideation</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>J. D. Morell.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*a"tion*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Certain sensational or <qex>ideational</qex> stimuli.</q> <rj><qau>Blackw. Mag.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dem</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>pron. <i>or</i> adj.</pos> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated <altname>id.</altname></def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Identical.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Hudibras.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"tic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>identique</ets>. See <er>Identity</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; <as>as, the <ex>identical</ex> person or thing</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same <qex>identical</qex> person who now remember that event, did then exist.</q> <rj><qau>Reid.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.</def><br/>
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<p><q>When you say body is solid, I say that you make an <qex>identical</qex> proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity.</q> <rj><qau>Fleming.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Identical equation</b></col> <fld>(Alg.)</fld>, <cd>an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>I*den"tic</hw>, <hw>I*den"tic*al</hw>  }</mhw>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>In diplomacy (esp. in the form <xex>identic</xex>), precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; -- applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"tic*al*ly</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In an identical manner; with respect to identity.</def> &ldquo;<xex>Identically</xex> the same.&rdquo; <au>Bp. Warburton.</au> &ldquo;<xex>Identically</xex> different.&rdquo; <au>Ross.</au><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"tic*al*ness</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The quality or state of being identical; sameness.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"ti*fi`a*ble</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Capable of being identified.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den`ti*fi*ca"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>identification</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>i*den"ti*fied</hw> <pos>adj.</pos> <def>recognized; having the identity established.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"ti*fy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Identified</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Identifying</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>identifier</ets>. See <er>Identity</er>, and <er>-fy</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Every precaution is taken to <qex>identify</qex> the interests of the people and of the rulers.</q> <rj><qau>D. Ramsay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Let us <qex>identify</qex>, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.</q> <rj><qau>Burke.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; <as>as, to <ex>identify</ex> stolen property</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"ti*fy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark></p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with <ptcl>with</ptcl>; <as>as, he <ex>identified</ex> with the grief she felt at her father's death</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will <qex>identify</qex> with an interest more enlarged and public.</q> <rj><qau>Burke.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>identifying</hw> <pos>adj.</pos> <sn>1.</sn>  <def>serving to distinguish or identify an object, person, species or group; <as>as, we were asked to describe any <ex>identifying</ex> marks or distinguishing features</as>.</def> <mark>[prenominal]</mark><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> distinguishing, distinctive.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>Identikit</hw> <pos>prop. n.</pos> <ety>[trademark]</ety> <def>A set of images containing a wide variety of facial features, such as noses, hairlines, chins, etc. on transparencies which can be overlayed in combinations to build up a picture of a person; it is used by police agencies to create concrete images of a crime suspect from the descriptions of witnesses; the image created with the kit is also called an <ex>Identikit</ex>, or more properly an <altname>Identikit picture</altname>.</def> <mark>[Trademark]</mark> <br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> Identikit picture.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"tism</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Identity</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>The doctrine taught by <persfn>Schelling</persfn>, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the <altname>system of identity</altname> <it>or</it> <altname>doctrine of identity</altname>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*den"ti*ty</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Identities</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[F. <ets>identit&eacute;</ets>, LL. <ets>identitas</ets>, fr. L. <ets>idem</ets> the same, from the root of <ets>is</ets> he, that; cf. Skr. <ets>idam</ets> this.  Cf. <er>Item</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.</def><br/>
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<p><q><qex>Identity</qex> is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves.</q> <rj><qau>Sir W. Hamilton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; <as>as, to establish the <ex>identity</ex> of stolen goods</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>An identical equation.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"de*o-</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <def>A combining form from the Gr. &unr_;, an <xex>idea</xex>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*o*gen"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or relating to ideology.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*og"e*ny</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + <ets>-geny</ets>, from the same root as Gr. &unr_;, birth: cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;og&eacute;nie</ets>.]</ety> <def>The science which treats of the origin of ideas.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"o*gram</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + <ets>-gram</ets>; cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;ograme</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.</def><br/>
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<p><q><qex>Ideograms</qex> may be defined to be pictures intended to represent either things or thoughts.</q> <rj><qau>I. Taylor (The Alphabet).</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>You might even have a history without language written or spoken, by means of <qex>ideograms</qex> and gesture.</q> <rj><qau>J. Peile.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; <as>as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, &unr_;, $, &unr_;, etc.</as></def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A phonetic symbol; a letter.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*de"o*graph</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Same as <er>Ideogram</er>.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>I`de*o*graph"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>I`de*o*graph"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;ographique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; <as>as, 9 represents not the word &ldquo;nine,&rdquo; but the <ex>idea</ex> of the number itself</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*o*graph"ics</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*og"ra*phy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw><hw>ideologic</hw>, <hw>ideological</hw></mhw> <pos>adj.</pos> <def>concerned with or suggestive of ideas; <as>as, an <ex>ideologic</ex> argument</as>.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> ideological.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*o*log"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;ologique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to ideology.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*ol"o*gist</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.</def></p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>An ideologue.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>ideologue</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <def>an adherent to or advocate of some ideology{3}.</def><br/>
<syn><b>Syn. --</b> ideologist.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*ol"o*gy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + <ets>-logy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>id&eacute;ologie</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The science of ideas.</def>  <rj><au>Stewart.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.</def><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, <xex>id&eacute;ologie</xex> . . . has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation.  <rj><au>Sir W. Hamilton.</au></rj></note></p>

<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A set or system of theories and beliefs held by an individual or group, especially about sociopolitical goals and methods to attain them; in common usage, <ex>ideology</ex> is such a set of beliefs so strongly held by their adherents as to cause them to ignore evidence against such beliefs, and thus fall into error -- in this sense it is viewed as a negative trait; contrasted to <contr>pragmatism</contr>, and distinct from idealism.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*o-mo"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>An ideo-motor movement.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`de*o-mo"tor</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + <ets>motor</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence.</def>  <rj><au>Carpenter.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ides</hw> <pr>(&imacr;dz)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>idus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ides</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anc. Rom. Calendar)</fld> <def>The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>ides</qex> of March remember.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the <xex>ides</xex>, and so on, backward, to the eighth from the <xex>ides</xex>.</note><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*o-</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ibreve_;*&ouptack_;-)</pr>. <def>A combining form from the Greek <grk>'i`dios</grk>, meaning <sig>private</sig>, <sig>personal</sig>, <sig>peculiar</sig>, <sig>distinct</sig>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*o*blast</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ibreve_;*&ouptack_;*bl&abreve;st)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + <ets>-blast</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Id`i*o*cra"sis</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL.]</ety> <def>Idiocracy.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*oc"ra*sy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Idiocrasies</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + Gr. <grk>kra^sis</grk> a mixture, fr. &unr_; to mix: cf. F. <ets>idiocrasie</ets>.]</ety> <def>Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id`i*o*crat"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Id`i*o*crat"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <def>Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*o*cy</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ibreve_;*&ouptack_;*s&ybreve_;)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[From <ets>idiot</ets>; cf. Gr. &unr_; uncouthness, lack of education, fr. &unr_;. See <er>Idiot</er>, and cf. <er>Idiotcy</er>.]</ety> <def>The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.</def><br/>
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<p><q>I will undertake to convict a man of <qex>idiocy</qex>, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles.</q> <rj><qau>F. W. Robertson.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*cy*cloph"a*nous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + Gr. &unr_; circle + &unr_; to appear.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Idiophanous</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*e*lec"tric</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + <ets>electric</ets>: cf. F. <ets>idio&eacute;lectrique</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to <contr>anelectric</contr>.</def> -- <def2><pos>n.</pos> <def>An idioelectric substance.</def></def2><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*o*graph</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ibreve_;*&ouptack_;*gr&adot_;f)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; autographic; <grk>'i`dios</grk> one's own + <grk>gra`fein</grk> to write.]</ety> <def>A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id`i*o*graph"ic</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d`&ibreve_;*&ouptack_;*gr&abreve;f"&ibreve_;k)</pr>, <hw>Id`i*o*graph"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to an idiograph.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*ol"a*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + Gr. &unr_; to worship.]</ety> <def>Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>idiolect</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Linguistics)</fld> <def>the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*om</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ibreve_;*&ubreve;m)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>idiome</ets>, L. <ets>idioma</ets>, fr. Gr. <grk>'idi`wma</grk>, fr. <grk>'idioy^n</grk> to make a person's own, to make proper or peculiar; fr. <grk>'i`dios</grk> one's own, proper, peculiar; prob. akin to the reflexive pronoun <grk>o"y^</grk>, <grk>o'i^</grk>, <grk>'e`</grk>, and to <grk>"eo`s</grk>, <grk>'o`s</grk>, one's own, L. <ets>suus</ets>, and to E. <ets>so</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.</def><br/>
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<p><q><qex>Idiom</qex> may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general rules of construction which characterize the syntax of a particular language and distinguish it from other tongues.</q> <rj><qau>G. P. Marsh.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>By <qex>idiom</qex> is meant the use of words which is peculiar to a particular language.</q> <rj><qau>J. H. Newman.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>He followed their language [the Latin], but did not comply with the <qex>idiom</qex> of ours.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Some that with care true eloquence shall teach,<br/>
And to just <qex>idioms</qex> fix our doubtful speech.</q> <rj><qau>Prior.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A combination of words having a meaning peculiar to itself and not predictable as a combination of the meanings of the individual words, but sanctioned by usage; <as>as, an <ex>idiomatic</ex> expression</as>; less commonly, a single word used in a peculiar sense.</def><br/>
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<p><q>It is not by means of rules that such <qex>idioms</qex> as the following are made current: &ldquo;I can <examp>make nothing</examp> of it.&rdquo; &ldquo;He <examp>treats</examp> his subject <examp>home</examp>.&rdquo;  <au>Dryden</au>. &ldquo;It is that within us that <examp>makes for</examp> righteousness.&rdquo; <au>M. Arnold</au>.</q> <rj><qau>Gostwick (Eng. Gram.)</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Sometimes we identify the words with the object -- though by courtesy of <qex>idiom</qex> rather than in strict propriety of language.</q> <rj><qau>Coleridge.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>The phrase forms peculiar to a particular author; <as>as, written in his own <ex>idiom</ex></as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Every good writer has much <qex>idiom</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Landor.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>Dialect; a variant form of a language.</def><br/>
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<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- Dialect.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Idiom</er>, <er>Dialect</er>. The <xex>idioms</xex> of a language belong to its very structure; its <xex>dialects</xex> are varieties of expression ingrafted upon it in different localities or by different professions. Each county of England has some peculiarities of <xex>dialect</xex>, and so have most of the professions, while the great <xex>idioms</xex> of the language are everywhere the same. See <er>Language</er>.</usage></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id`i*o*mat"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Id`i*o*mat"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'idiwmatiko`s</grk>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; <as>as, an <ex>idiomatic</ex> meaning; an <ex>idiomatic</ex> phrase.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of an <er>idiom</er>{3}; having a meaning that is peculiar to itself and not predictable from general rules.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*morph"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Idiomorphous.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*morph"ous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>'idio`morfos</grk> of peculiar form; <grk>'i`dios</grk> peculiar + <grk>morfh`</grk> form.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Having a form of its own.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*mus"cu*lar</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + <ets>muscular</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*pa*thet"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Idiopathic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id`i*o*path"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Id`i*o*path"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>idiopathique</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to <contr>symptomatic</contr>, <contr>sympathetic</contr>, and <contr>traumatic</contr>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*op"a*thy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Idiopathies</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; <grk>'i`dios</grk> proper, peculiar + &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer: cf. F. <ets>idiopathie</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.</def><br/>
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<p><q>All men are so full of their own fancies and <qex>idiopathies</qex>, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger.</q> <rj><qau>Dr. H. More.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*oph"a*nous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + &unr_; to appear.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*o*plasm</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Idioplasma</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>&Verbar;Id`i*o*plas"ma</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>'i`dios</grk> proper, peculiar + &unr_; a form, mold.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed <xex>nutritive plasma</xex>. See <er>Hygroplasm</er>.</def>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*re*pul"sive</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + <ets>repulsive</ets>.]</ety> <def>Repulsive by itself; <as>as, the <ex>idiorepulsive</ex> power of heat</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*syn"cra*sy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Idiosyncrasies</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[Gr. &unr_;; <grk>'i`dios</grk> proper, peculiar + &unr_; a mixing together, fr. &unr_; to mix together; &unr_; with + &unr_; to mix: cf. F. <ets>idiosyncrasie</ets>. See <er>Idiom</er>, and <er>Crasis</er>.]</ety> <def>A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the <qex>idiosyncrasies</qex> of the body.</q> <rj><qau>I. Taylor.</qau></rj></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ibreve_;*&obreve_;t)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>idiot</ets>, L. <ets>idiota</ets> an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. <grk>'idiw`ths</grk>, also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, fr. <grk>'i`dios</grk> proper, peculiar. See <er>Idiom</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all <qex>idiots</qex> or private persons.</q> <rj><qau>Jer. Taylor.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>Christ was received of <qex>idiots</qex>, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis.</q> <rj><qau>C. Blount.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool.  In a former classification of mentally retarded people, <ex>idiot</ex> designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Life . . . is a tale<br/>
Told by an <qex>idiot</qex>, full of sound and fury,<br/>
Signifying nothing.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Weenest thou make an <qex>idiot</qex> of our dame?</q> <rj><qau>Chaucer.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot*cy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. <er>Idiocy</er>.]</ety> <def>Idiocy.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot*ed</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Rendered idiotic; befooled.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Tennyson.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*o*ther"mic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + <ets>thermic</ets>.]</ety> <def>Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id`i*ot"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Id`i*ot"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>idioticus</ets> ignorant, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. <ets>idiotique</ets>. See <er>Idiot</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Common; simple.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Blackwall.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; <as>as, an <ex>idiotic</ex> person, speech, laugh, or action</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*ot"ic*al*ly</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In an idiotic manner.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`i*ot"i*con</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; belonging to a private man, private. See <er>Idiot</er>.]</ety> <def>A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot*ish</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Like an idiot; foolish.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot*ism</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>idiotisme</ets>, L. <ets>idiotismus</ets> the way of fashion of a private person, the common or vulgar manner of speaking, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to put into or use common language, fr. &unr_;. See <er>Idiot</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Scholars sometimes give terminations and <qex>idiotisms</qex>, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented.</q> <rj><qau>M. Hale.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Worse than mere ignorance or <qex>idiotism</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Shaftesbury.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The running that adventure is the greatist <qex>idiotism</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Hammond.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot*ize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <def>To become stupid.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"i*ot*ry</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Idiocy.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Bp. Warburton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dle</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <amorph>[<pos>Compar.</pos> <adjf>Idler</adjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>superl.</pos> <adjf>Idlest</adjf>.]</amorph> <ety>[OE. <ets>idel</ets>, AS. <ets>&imacr;del</ets> vain, empty, useless; akin to OS. <ets>&imacr;dal</ets>, D. <ets>ijdel</ets>, OHG. <ets>&imacr;tal</ets> vain, empty, mere, G. <ets>eitel</ets>, Dan. &amp; Sw. <ets>idel</ets> mere, pure, and prob. to Gr. &unr_; clear, pure, &unr_; to burn.  Cf. <er>Ether</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.</def> &ldquo;Deserts <xex>idle</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Every <qex>idle</qex> word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.</q> <rj><qau>Matt. xii. 36.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Down their <qex>idle</qex> weapons dropped.</q> <rj><qau>Milton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>This <qex>idle</qex> story became important.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; <as>as, <ex>idle</ex> hours</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>idle</qex> spear and shield were high uphing.</q> <rj><qau>Milton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; <as>as, <ex>idle</ex> workmen</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Why stand ye here all the day <qex>idle</qex>?</q> <rj><qau>Matt. xx. 6.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; <as>as, an <ex>idle</ex> fellow</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>Light-headed; foolish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Ford.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Idle pulley</b></col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power.</cd> -- <col><b>Idle wheel</b></col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution.</cd> -- <col><b>In idle</b></col>, <cd>in vain.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> &ldquo;God saith, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord God <xex>in idle</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj></cs></p>

<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- Unoccupied; unemployed; vacant; inactive; indolent; sluggish; slothful; useless; ineffectual; futile; frivolous; vain; trifling; unprofitable; unimportant.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Idle</er>, <er>Indolent</er>, <er>Lazy</er>. A propensity to inaction is expressed by each of these words; they differ in the cause and degree of this characteristic. <xex>Indolent</xex> denotes an habitual love to ease, a settled dislike of movement or effort; <xex>idle</xex> is opposed to <contr>busy</contr>, and denotes a dislike of <xex>continuous</xex> exertion. <xex>Lazy</xex> is a stronger and more contemptuous term than <xex>indolent</xex>.</usage><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dle</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Idled</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Idling</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <def>To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.</def>  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dle</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <def>To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by <xex>away</xex>; <as>as, to <ex>idle</ex> away an hour a day</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dle-head`ed</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Foolish; stupid.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> &ldquo;The superstitious <xex>idle-headed</xex> eld.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Delirious; infatuated.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>L'Estrange.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dle*ness</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[AS. <ets>&imacr;delnes</ets>.]</ety> <def>The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.</def></p>

<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dle-pat`ed</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Idle-headed; stupid.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dler</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.</def>  <rj><au>Totten.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>An idle wheel or pulley. See under <er>Idle</er>.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>I"dless</hw>, <hw>I"dlesse</hw>  }</mhw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Idleness.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark> &ldquo;In <xex>ydlesse</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Spenser.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>And an <qex>idlesse</qex> all the day<br/>
Beside a wandering stream.</q> <rj><qau>Mrs. Browning.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dly</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (<mark>Obs.</mark>) foolishly.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"do</hw> <pr>(&emacr;"d&omacr;)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>An artificial international language, selected by the &ldquo;Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International Language&rdquo; (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907, and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or &ldquo;Academy.&rdquo;   It is a revised and simplified form of <er>Esperanto</er>.  It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the &ldquo;greatest facility for the greatest number of people.&rdquo; The word &ldquo;Ido&rdquo; means in the language itself &ldquo;offspring.&rdquo; The official name is: &ldquo;Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido).&rdquo;</def> -- <wordforms><wf>I"dism</wf> <pr>(#)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> -- <wf>I"dist</wf> <pr>(#)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><hw>Id"o*crase</hw> <pr>(&ibreve_;d"&ouptack_;*kr&amacr;s; 277)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>e'i^dos</grk> form + <grk>kra^sis</grk> mixture, from <grk>keranny`nai</grk> to mix; cf. F. <ets>idocrase</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Vesuvianite</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>idole</ets>, F. <ets>idole</ets>, L. <ets>idolum</ets>, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; that which is seen, the form, shape, figure, fr. &unr_; to see. See <er>Wit</er>, and cf. <er>Eidolon</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>An image or representation of anything.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>Do her adore with sacred reverence,<br/>
As th' <qex>idol</qex> of her maker's great magnificence.</q> <rj><qau>Spenser.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god.</def><br/>
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<p><q>That they should not worship devils, and <qex>idols</qex> of gold.</q> <rj><qau>Rev. ix. 20.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The soldier's god and people's <qex>idol</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Denham.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A false notion or conception; a fallacy.</def>  <rj><au>Bacon.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>idols</qex> of preconceived opinion.</q> <rj><qau>Coleridge.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I`do*las"tre</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE., for <ets>idolatre</ets>.]</ety> <def>An idolater.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*ter</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>idol&acirc;tre</ets>: cf. L. <ets>idololatres</ets>, Gr. &unr_;. See <er>Idolatry</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>An adorer; a great admirer.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Jonson was an <qex>idolater</qex> of the ancients.</q> <rj><qau>Bp. Hurd.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*tress</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A female worshiper of idols.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I`do*lat"ric*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>idol&acirc;trique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Idolatrous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*trize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Idolatrized</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Idolatrizing</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <def>To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*trize</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <def>To make in idol of; to idolize.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*trous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; <as>as, <ex>idolatrous</ex> sacrifices</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>[Josiah] put down the <qex>idolatrous</qex> priests.</q> <rj><qau>2 Kings xxiii. 5.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; <as>as, an <ex>idolatrous</ex> veneration for antiquity</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*trous*ly</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In a idolatrous manner.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"a*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Idolatries</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[F. <ets>idol&acirc;trie</ets>, LL. <ets>idolatria</ets>, L. <ets>idololatria</ets>, Fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; idol + &unr_; service.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.</def><br/>
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<p><q>His eye surveyed the dark <qex>idolatries</qex><br/>
Of alienated Judah.</q> <rj><qau>Milton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.</def>  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*ish</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Idolatrous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Milton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*ism</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The worship of idols.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*ist</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A worshiper of idols.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Milton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*ize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Idolized</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Idolizing</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; <as>as, to <ex>idolize</ex> the sacred bull in Egypt</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; <as>as, to <ex>idolize</ex> gold, children, a hero</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*ize</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <def>To practice idolatry.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>To <qex>idolize</qex> after the manner of Egypt.</q> <rj><qau>Fairbairn.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*i`zer</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol"o*clast</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; idol + &unr_; to break.]</ety> <def>A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dol`o*graph"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Idol</ets> + <ets>-graph</ets>.]</ety> <def>Descriptive of idols.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Southey.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dol*ous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Idolatrous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Bale.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><mhw><hw>&Verbar;I*do"lum</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>&Verbar;I*do"lon</hw> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr></mhw>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu>pl. <plw>Idola</plw> <pr>(#)</pr></plu>. <ety>[L. See <er>Idol</er>; cf. <er>Eidolon</er>.]</ety> <def>Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I*do"ne*ous</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>idoneus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>An ecclesiastical benefice . . . ought to be conferred on an <qex>idoneous</qex> person.</q> <rj><qau>Ayliffe.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Id*or"gan</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; form + E. <ets>organ</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or <xex>biorgan</xex>. See <er>Morphon</er>.</def></p>

<p><mhw>{ <hw>Id"ri*a*line</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Id"ri*a*lite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>idrialine</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of <xex>Idria</xex>, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Id`u*me"an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to ancient <xex>Idumea</xex>, or Edom, in Western Asia.</def> -- <def2><pos>n.</pos> <def>An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.</def></def2><br/>
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<p><hw>I"dyl</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>idyllium</ets>, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F. <ets>idylle</ets>. See <er>Idol</er>.]</ety> <def>A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; <as>as, the <ex>idyls</ex> of Theocritus</as>; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>idyll</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><q>Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted <qex>idyl</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Mrs. Browning.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>His [Goldsmith's] lovely <qex>idyl</qex> of the Vicar's home.</q> <rj><qau>F. Harrison.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*dyl"lic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or belonging to idyls.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>I. e.</hw> <def>Abbreviation of Latin <xex>id est</xex>, that is.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>If</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>conj.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>if</ets>, <ets>gif</ets>, AS. <ets>gif</ets>; akin to OFries. <ets>ief</ets>, <ets>gef</ets>, <ets>ef</ets>, OS. <ets>ef</ets>, <ets>of</ets>, D. <ets>of</ets>, or, whether, if, G. <ets>ob</ets> whether, if, OHG. <ets>oba</ets>, <ets>ibu</ets>, Icel. <ets>ef</ets>, Goth. <ets>iba</ets>, <ets>ibai</ets>, an interrogative particle; properly a case form of a noun meaning, doubt (cf. OHG. <ets>iba</ets> doubt, condition, Icel. <ets>if</ets>, <ets>ef</ets>, <ets>ifi</ets>, <ets>efi</ets>), and therefore orig. meaning, on condition that.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer,<br/>
Assist, <qex>if</qex> &OElig;dipus deserve thy care.</q> <rj><qau>Pope.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q><qex>If</qex> thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.</q> <rj><qau>Matt. iv. 3.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Whether; -- in dependent questions.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Uncertain <qex>if</qex> by augury or chance.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>She doubts <qex>if</qex> two and two make four.</q> <rj><qau>Prior.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><mcol><col><b>As if</b></col>, <col><b>But if</b></col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>As</er>, <er>But</er>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>I' faith"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <def>In faith; indeed; truly.</def>  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>I*fere"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Corrupted fr. <ets>in fere</ets>.]</ety> <def>Together.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ig`a*su"ric</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Igasurine</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; <as>as, <ex>igasuric</ex> acid</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ig`a*su"rine</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Malay <ets>igasura</ets> the nux vomica.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ig"loo</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>An Eskimo snow house.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A cavity, or ex