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Illinition

A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

Illinois

A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

Illiquation

The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.

Illision

The act of dashing or striking against.

Illiteracy

The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

Illiterate

Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

Illness

The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

Illogical

Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference.

Illtreat

To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat.

Illude

To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

Illume

To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

Illuminant

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants.

Illuminate

One who is enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.

illuminated

rendered luminous by rays of light striking and reflecting; -- used especially of illumination by artificial light.

Illuminating

Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Illumination

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

Illuminative

Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative.

Illuminator

One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

Illumine

To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

Illuminer

One who, or that which, illuminates.

Illuministic

Of or pertaining to illuminism, or the Illuminati.

Illuminize

To initiate the doctrines or principles of the Illuminati.

Illure

To deceive; to entice; to lure.

Illusion

An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

illusionary

marked by or producing illusion; as, illusionary stage effects.

Illusive

Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.

Illusiveness

The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show.

Illusory

Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.

Illustrate

Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.

illustrated

provided with pictures; -- of a publication; as, an illustrated weekly. Opposite of unillustrated.

Illustration

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

Illustrative

Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

Illustrious

Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.

Illustriously

In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously.

Illustriousness

The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

Illutation

The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

Ilmenium

A supposed element claimed to have been discovered by R.Harmann.

Ilvaite

A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

Image

To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

Imager

One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor.

Imagery

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

Imaginal

Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

Imaginary

An imaginary expression or quantity.

Imagination

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

Imaginational

Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Imaginative

Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.

Imagine

To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

imagined

existing in the mind only; not real or actual; as, her imagined fame.

Imaginer

One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.

Imaret

A lodging house for Muslim pilgrims.

Imaum Iman Imam

Among the Muslims, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

Imband

To form into a band or bands.

Imbank

To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

Imbankment

The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.

Imbar

To bar in; to secure.

Imbathe

To bathe; to wash freely; to immerse.

Imbecile

To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.

Imbecilitate

To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.

Imbecility

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.

Imbed

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

Imbibe

To drink in; to absorb; to soak up; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

Imbiber

One who, or that which, imbibes.

Imbibition

The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.

Imbitter

To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.

Imbitterment

The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.

Imbody

To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.

Imborder

To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of.

Imbosom

To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

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