Equal law or right; equal distribution of rights and privileges; similarity.

The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease. The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40/ to 60/ C.

Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.

The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

Having equal pressure.

A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal.

Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda. One of the Isopoda.

An order of sessile-eyed Crustacea, usually having seven pairs of legs, which are all similar in structure.

Having the shape of an isopod; -- said of the larv/ of certain insects.

Same as Isopod.

Having the two webs equal in breadth; -- said of feathers.

An oily, volatile unsaturated hydrocarbon (C5H8), obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or gutta-percha, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, it is viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons.

A line or surface passing through those points in a medium, at which the density is the same.

A crystalline hydrocarbon derivative, metameric with orcin, but produced artificially; -- called also cresorcin.

Of equal value.

Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.

having the same or equal osmotic pressure; isotonic; -- used of solutions. Contrasted with hypertonic and hypotonic

An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.

Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebr/ separate and normal.

One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism. A zygospore.

Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic.

Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns.

The state or quality of being isostatic. general equilibrium in the earth's crust, supposed to be maintained by the yielding or flow of rock material beneath the surface under gravitative stress. By the theory of isostasy each unit column of the earth, from surface to center, has approximately the same weight, and the continents stand higher than the ocean beds chiefly because the material of the crust has there less density.

Subjected to equal pressure from every side; being in hydrostatic equilibrium, as a body submerged in a liquid at rest; pertaining to, or characterized by, isostasy.

Having exactly as many stamens as petals.

The quality or state of being isostemonous.

A salt of isosulphocyanic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, HNCS, isomeric with sulphocyanic acid.

Having the nature of an isothere; indicating the distribution of temperature by means of an isothere; as, an isotheral chart or line.

A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean summer temperature.

A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.

Relating to equality of temperature, or an isotherm. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart.

A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.

Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.

A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.

Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension.

Isotrimorphous.

Isomorphism between the three forms, severally, of two trimorphous substances.

Having the quality of isotrimorphism; isotrimorphic.

Having the same properties in all directions; specifically, equally elastic in all directions.

Isotropy.

Isotropic.

Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, isomeric with uric acid.

A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.

Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.

In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.

The act of issuing, or giving out; as, the issuance of an order; the issuance of rations, and the like.

Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.

To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

Having no issue or progeny; childless.

One who issues, emits, or publishes.

the act of issuing; putting out.

A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.

A city in European Turkey, built on the site of ancient Byzantium. It is the former capital of the Turkish Empire, known as Constantinople before being captured by the Turks.

Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.

A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.

Same as Ixtle.

An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.

Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reuchlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.

One who is in favor of itacism.

A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids.

The unsaturated dicarboxylic acid CH2=C(COOH)CH2.COOH, also called methylenesuccynic acid and propylene dicarboxylic acid.

An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).

A native or inhabitant of Italy.

Italianized; Italianated.

A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.

An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.

To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.

An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

The state of being itchy.

Free from itching.

Infected with the itch.

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; called also Kamchadal and Kamtschadal.

Also; as an additional article.

To make a note or memorandum of.

considered one item at a time; -- contrasted with using general rules for groups of items considered by their class.

To state in items, or by particulars; to list each item in a collection under discussion; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad.

A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.

Capable of being iterated or repeated.

Iteration.

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo.

By way of iteration.

Recital or performance a second time; repetition.

Repeating.

Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.

The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.

One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.

In an itinerant manner.

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.

An account of travels, or a register of places and distances as a guide to travelers; as, the Itinerary of Antoninus.

To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.

Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It.

The neuter reflexive pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself.

See Yttria.

See Yttrium.

very small; tiny.

A silver coin of Japan, worth about thirty-four cents.

An intrauterine device, a contraceptive device consisting of a small, usually plastic object placed within the uterus to prevent conception.

One of the Iulid/, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.

A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.

An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as /John Bull/ is used for the typical Englishman.

Overgrown with ivy.

A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.

A large, handsome, black-and-white North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States and Cuba.

A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype.

A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV. of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.

A plant of the genus Hedera (Hedera helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.

Covered with ivy.

Indeed; truly. See Ywis.

a bloody and prolonged military operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).

The Roman numerals signifying nine; denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.

A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.

A genus of birds consisting of certain of the bitterns.

A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.

A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodid/.

a member of the Ixodidae, a family of ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.