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Ichthyophthira

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

Ichthyopsida

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

Ichthyornis

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/.

Ichthyosauria

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

Ichthyosaurian

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

Ichthyosaurus

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.

Ichthyosis

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

Icicle

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

Icily

In an icy manner; coldly.

Iciness

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

Icing

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

icky

very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful.

icon

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Iconical

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

Iconism

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

Iconize

To form an image or likeness of.

Iconoclasm

The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

Iconoclast

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

Iconoclastic

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

Iconograph

An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.

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.

Iconolatry

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

Iconology

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

Iconomachy

Hostility to images as objects of worship.

Iconomania

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

Iconomical

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.

Iconophilist

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

Icosandria

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

Icositetrahedron

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

Icteroid

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

Ictic

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

Ictiobus

A genus of fishes comprising the buffalofishes.

ictodosaur

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

Ictodosauria

An order of extinct reptiles of the Upper Triassic.

Ictus

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

Icy

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

Id

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.

id

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.

Idalian

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

Ide

Same as first Id, the fish.

Idea

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.

Ideal

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

Idealism

The quality or state of being ideal.

Idealist

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

Idealistic

Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.

Ideality

The quality or state of being ideal.

Ideally

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

Idealogic

Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.

Idealogue

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

Ideate

To form in idea; to fancy.

Ideate Ideat

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

Ideation

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.

Ideational

Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.

Idem

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.

Identical Identic

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.

Identically

In an identical manner; with respect to identity.

Identification

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

identified

recognized; having the identity established.

Identify

To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

identifying

serving to distinguish or identify an object, person, species or group; as, we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features.

Identikit

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 Identikit, or more properly an Identikit picture.

Identism

The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system of identity or doctrine of identity.

Identity

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

Ideo-motor

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.

Ideogeny

The science which treats of the origin of ideas.

Ideogram

An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.

Ideographical Ideographic

Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word /nine,/ but the idea of the number itself.

Ideographics

The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.

Ideography

The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

Ideologist

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

ideologue

an adherent to or advocate of some ideology{3}.

Ides

The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.

Idioblast

An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.

Idiocrasy

Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.

Idiocy

The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.

Idioelectric

Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. An idioelectric substance.

Idiograph

A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.

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