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Found: 5,546 words.
I
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As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.
A paper having on it these letters, with a sum named, and duly signed; -- in use in England as an acknowledgment of a debt, and taken as evidence thereof, but not amounting to a pr...
In faith; indeed; truly.
Contraction for I will or I shall.
A contraction from I would or I had.
A contraction of I am.
Colloquial contraction of I have.
See Y-.
Abbreviation of Latin id est, that is.
Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.
An iambus or iambic.
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Iambic
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A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
Iambic.
In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iam...
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Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail.
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Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method.
Alt. of Iatrical
Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.
Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.
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 de...
Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.
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 stude...
Of or pertaining to Iberia.
One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.
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In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.
Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, hav...
ical
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Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.
Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.
Ice
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Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Afric...
Ice-built
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Composed of ice.
A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar.
Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast.
Iced
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Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.
A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.
A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) 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 ...
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. Calcite.
A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
Icelandic
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Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
Iceman
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A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.