A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.
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Of or pertaining to an idiograph.
Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.
the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.
The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase.
Idiomorphous.
Having a form of its own.
Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
Idiopathic.
Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic.
A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.
Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.
Same as Idioplasma.
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 nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.
Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.
A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
Idiocy.
Rendered idiotic; befooled.
Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.
Common; simple.
In an idiotic manner.
A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
Like an idiot; foolish.
An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.
To become stupid.
Idiocy.
To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.
Foolish; stupid.
Idle-headed; stupid.
The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
Idleness.
In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.
An artificial international language, selected by the /Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International Language/ (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907, and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or /Academy./ It is a revised and simplified form of Esperanto. 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 /greatest facility for the greatest number of people./ The word /Ido/ means in the language itself /offspring./ The official name is: /Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido)./
Same as Vesuvianite.
An image or representation of anything.
An idolater.
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.
A female worshiper of idols.
Idolatrous.
To make in idol of; to idolize.
Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices.
In a idolatrous manner.
The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.
Idolatrous.
The worship of idols.
A worshiper of idols.
To practice idolatry.
One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.
A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.
Descriptive of idols.
Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.
Idolatrous.
Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.
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 biorgan. See Morphon.
A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.
Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; 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.
Of or belonging to idyls.
In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition.
Together.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid.
An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
An Eskimo snow house.
Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.
Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.
A worshiper of fire.
Producing fire.
Flowing with fire.
To form into fire.
Produced by the action of fire, as lava.
Power over fire.
Presiding over fire; also, fiery.
To take fire; to begin to burn.
set afire or burning.
a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire.
Capable of being ignited.
The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.
One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
Vomiting fire.
Ignobleness.
To make ignoble.
State or quality of being ignoble.
In an ignoble manner; basely.
Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.
Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
Ignominy.
We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, /No bill,/ /No true bill,/ or /Not found,/ though in some jurisdictions /Ignored/ is still used.
The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.
The spirit of those who extol the advantage of ignorance; obscurantism.
One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscurantist.
In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently.
To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
Pardonable.
Unknown. One who is unknown.
Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanid/. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.
A superfamily (or suborder) of New World lizards including the Iguanidae.
Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.
Same as Iguanoid.
A natural family of New World lizards including the common Iguana, Iguana iguana.
A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.
Like or pertaining to the genus Iguanodon.
Pertaining to the Iguanid/.
A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree.
The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.
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A tropical American tree (Annona diversifolia) grown in the southern U. S. having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
An oil distilled from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree, used in perfumery.
An isle.
An island on the Seine.
Pertaining to the ileum.
Pertaining to the ileum and c/cum.
Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileoc/cal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.
The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.
A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac passion or iliac passion.
The holm oak (Quercus Ilex). A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.
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