Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverrid/. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species (Herpestes ichneumon), 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 (Herpestes griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonid/, or ichneumon flies. One of the Ichneumonid/.

The ichneumon flies.

A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone.

Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.

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.

A fossil footprint; an ichnite.

Same as Ichnology.

Of or pertaining to ichnology.

The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.

The search for the traces of anything.

An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

A substance from the yolk of salmon's eggs.

In early Christian and ecclesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words Ihsoy^s, Christo`s, Qeoy^ Gio`s Swth`r, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior.

Like, or pertaining to, fishes.

Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.

Fossil dung of fishes.

One of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.

A treatise on fishes.

Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.

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.

Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols.

A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.

Of or pertaining to ichthyology.

One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

The natural history of fishes; that branch of Zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

The Urodela.

Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.

One who eats, or subsists on, fish.

Eating, or subsisting on, fish.

The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.

See Apophyllite.

A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.

A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.

See Ichthyosauria.

The typical limb, or lateral fin, of fishes.

An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebr/, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotorm/.

One of the Ichthyosaura.

An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period.

Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria. One of the Ichthyosauria.

An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebr/, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, O/litic, and Cretaceous formations.

A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin.

One skilled in ichthyotomy.

The anatomy or dissection of fishes.

Same as Ichthus.

A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.

Having icicles attached.

In an icy manner; coldly.

The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.

A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

An icicle.

very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful.

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast.

An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.

A maker of images.

Of or pertaining to iconography.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

One who worships images.

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Hostility to images as objects of worship.

A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.

A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.

Having twenty equal sides or faces.

A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

A Linn/an class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

A remedy for the jaundice.

Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.

Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.

The jaundice.

Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.

A genus of fishes comprising the buffalofishes.

An extinct reptile intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals.

An order of extinct reptiles of the Upper Triassic.

The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.

Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.

Spangled with ice.

A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.

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 ego and superego before being acted upon.

a resident of Idaho.

Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.

Same as first Id, the fish.

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.

A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

Destitute of an idea.

Same as idealization.

Same as idealize.

The quality or state of being ideal.

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.

The quality or state of being ideal.

The act or process of idealizing.

To form ideals.

An idealist.

In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.

To form in idea; to fancy.

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

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.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.

The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

Identical.

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), 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.