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Idiomuscular

Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.

Idiopathical 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.

Idiopathy

A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.

Idiophanous

Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.

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.

Idiorepulsive

Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

Idiosyncrasy

A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.

Idiot

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

Idiothermic

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

Idioticon

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

Idiotism

An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.

Idle

To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.

Idleness

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Idler

One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

Idly

In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

Ido

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)./

Idol

An image or representation of anything.

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.

Idolatrous

Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices.

Idolatry

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.

Idolizer

One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.

Idolon Idolum

Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.

Idoneous

Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.

Idorgan

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.

Idrialite Idrialine

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

Idumean

Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.

Idyl

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.

If

In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition.

Igasuric

Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid.

Igasurine

An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

Igloo

An Eskimo snow house.

Igneous

Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.

Ignescent

Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.

Ignigenous

Produced by the action of fire, as lava.

Ignite

To take fire; to begin to burn.

igniter

a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire.

Ignition

The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.

Ignitor

One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.

Ignobly

In an ignoble manner; basely.

Ignominious

Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.

Ignominiously

In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.

Ignominy

Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.

Ignoramus

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.

Ignorance

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.

Ignorant

A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.

Ignorantism

The spirit of those who extol the advantage of ignorance; obscurantism.

Ignorantist

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscurantist.

Ignorantly

In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently.

Ignore

To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.

Ignote

Unknown. One who is unknown.

Iguana

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.

Iguania

A superfamily (or suborder) of New World lizards including the Iguanidae.

Iguanian

Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.

Iguanidae

A natural family of New World lizards including the common Iguana, Iguana iguana.

Iguanodon

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.

Iguanodont

Like or pertaining to the genus Iguanodon.

Ihlang-ihlang

A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree.

Ihram

The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.

ilama

A tropical American tree (Annona diversifolia) grown in the southern U. S. having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.

ilang-ilang

An oil distilled from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree, used in perfumery.

Ileac

Pertaining to the ileum.

Ileocolic

Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileoc/cal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.

Ileum

The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.

Ileus

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.

Ilex

The holm oak (Quercus Ilex). A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.

Iliac

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.

Iliad

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

Ilial

Pertaining to the ilium; iliac.

Ilicic

Pertaining to, or derived from, the holly (Ilex), and allied plants; as, ilicic acid.

Ilicin

The bitter principle of the holly.

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