English Dictionary: Italian vegetable marrow | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Idalian \I*da"li*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred. [bd]Idalian Aphrodit[82].[b8] --Tennyson. | |
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Idleness \I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [c6]delnes.] The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness. Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth. | |
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Idle \I"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Idled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Idling}.] To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business. --Shak. | |
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Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. {Italic}.] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also {farmer's satin}. {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills. {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice. | |
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Italian \I*tal"ian\, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Italy. 2. The language used in Italy, or by the Italians. | |
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Ray grass \Ray" grass`\, [Etymol. of ray is uncertain.] (Bot.) A perennial European grass ({Lolium perenne}); -- called also {rye grass}, and {red darnel}. See {Darnel}, and {Grass}. {Italian} {ray, [or] rye}, {grass}. See {Darnel}, and {Grass}. | |
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Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. {Italic}.] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also {farmer's satin}. {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills. {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice. | |
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Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. {Italic}.] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also {farmer's satin}. {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills. {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice. | |
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Fluting \Flut"ing\, n. Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. {Fluting iron}, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also {Italian iron}, or {gaufering iron}. --Knight. {Fluting lathe}, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc. | |
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Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. {Italic}.] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also {farmer's satin}. {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills. {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice. | |
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May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}. {Egyptian [or] East Indian}, {millet} is {Penicillaria spicata}. {Indian millet} is {Sorghum vulgare}. (See under {Indian}.) {Italian millet} is {Setaria Italica}, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also {Hungarian grass}. {Texas millet} is {Panicum Texanum}. {Wild millet}, or {Millet grass}, is {Milium effusum}, a tail grass growing in woods. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rye \Rye\, n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw. r[86]g, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr. 'o`ryza rice. Cf. {Rice}.] 1. (Bot.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass ({Secale cereale}), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man. 2. A disease in a hawk. --Ainsworth. {Rye grass}, {Italian rye grass}, (Bot.) See under {Grass}. See also {Ray grass}, and {Darnel}. {Wild rye} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Elymus}, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye. | |
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Italianate \I*tal"ian*ate\, v. t. [Cf. It. italianare.] To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. [R.] --Ascham. | |
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Italianate \I*tal"ian*ate\, a. Italianized; Italianated. [bd]Apish, childish, and Italianate.[b8] --Marlowe. | |
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Italianism \I*tal"ian*ism\, n. 1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism. 2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy. | |
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Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Italianized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Italianizing}.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It. italianizzare.] 1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave. 2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. [bd]An Englishman Italianized.[b8] --Lowell. | |
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Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Italianized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Italianizing}.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It. italianizzare.] 1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave. 2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. [bd]An Englishman Italianized.[b8] --Lowell. | |
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Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Italianized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Italianizing}.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It. italianizzare.] 1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave. 2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. [bd]An Englishman Italianized.[b8] --Lowell. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Italian band the name of the Roman cohort to which Cornelius belonged (Acts 10:1), so called probably because it consisted of men recruited in Italy. |