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   idiosyncrasy
         n 1: a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to
               an individual [syn: {idiosyncrasy}, {foible}, {mannerism}]

English Dictionary: itching by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
idiosyncratic
adj
  1. peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iodocompound
n
  1. a compound containing the covalent iodine radical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
itaconic acid
n
  1. a crystalline carboxylic acid; occurs in some fermentations of sugars
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
itch mite
n
  1. whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals; "itch mites cause scabies"
    Synonym(s): itch mite, sarcoptid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
itchiness
n
  1. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
    Synonym(s): itch, itchiness, itching
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
itching
n
  1. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
    Synonym(s): itch, itchiness, itching
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ideogenical \I`de*o*gen"ic*al\, a.
      Of or relating to ideology.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ideogeny \I`de*og"e*ny\, n. [Ideo- + -geny, from the same root
      as Gr. [?], birth: cf. F. id[82]og[82]nie.]
      The science which treats of the origin of ideas.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Idiosyncrasy \Id`i*o*syn"cra*sy\, n.; pl. {Idiosyncrasies}. [Gr.
      [?]; [?] proper, peculiar + [?] a mixing together, fr. [?] to
      mix together; [?] with + [?] to mix: cf. F. idiosyncrasie.
      See {Idiom}, and {Crasis}.]
      A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or
      temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and
      distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility;
      idiocrasy; eccentricity.
  
               The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
               idiosyncrasies of the body.                     --I. Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Idiosyncrasy \Id`i*o*syn"cra*sy\, n.; pl. {Idiosyncrasies}. [Gr.
      [?]; [?] proper, peculiar + [?] a mixing together, fr. [?] to
      mix together; [?] with + [?] to mix: cf. F. idiosyncrasie.
      See {Idiom}, and {Crasis}.]
      A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or
      temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and
      distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility;
      idiocrasy; eccentricity.
  
               The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
               idiosyncrasies of the body.                     --I. Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Idiosyncratic \Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic\, Idiosyncratical
   \Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic*al\, a.
      Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's
      peculiar and individual character.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Idiosyncratic \Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic\, Idiosyncratical
   \Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic*al\, a.
      Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's
      peculiar and individual character.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ido \I"do\ ([emac]"d[omac]), n.
      An artificial international language, selected by the
      [bd]Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International
      Language[b8] (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907,
      and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent
      committee or [bd]Academy.[b8] 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
      [bd]greatest facility for the greatest number of people.[b8]
      The word [bd]Ido[b8] means in the language itself
      [bd]offspring.[b8] The official name is: [bd]Linguo
      Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido).[b8] -- {I"dism},
      n. -- {I"dist}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iodism \I"o*dism\, n. (Med.)
      A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its
      compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and
      general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iodize \I"o*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Iodized}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Iodizing}.]
      To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to
      iodize a plate for photography. --R. Hunt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iodoquinine \I`o*do*qui"nine\, n. [Iodo- + quinine.] (Chem.)
      A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the
      base of herapathite. See {Herapathite}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Here \Here\, adv. [OE. her, AS. h[?]r; akin to OS. h[?]r, D.
      hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[?]r, Dan. her, Sw.
      h[84]r; fr. root of E. he. See {He}.]
      1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; --
            opposed to {there}.
  
                     He is not here, for he is risen.         --Matt.
                                                                              xxviii. 6.
  
      2. In the present life or state.
  
                     Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
  
      3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See {Thither}.
  
                     Here comes Virgil.                              --B. Jonson.
  
                     Thou led'st me here.                           --Byron.
  
      4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
  
                     The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
                                                                              --Warren.
  
      Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a
               verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something
               or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in
               drinking healths. [bd]Here's [a health] to thee,
               Dick.[b8] --Cowley.
  
      {Here and there}, in one place and another; in a dispersed
            manner; irregularly. [bd]Footsteps here and there.[b8]
            --Longfellow.
  
      {It is neither, here nor there}, it is neither in this place
            nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence,
            it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nay \Nay\, n.; pl. {Nays}.
      1. Denial; refusal.
  
      2. a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
  
      {It is no nay}, there is no denying it. [Obs.] --haucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seem \Seem\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Seemed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Seeming}.] [OE. semen to seem, to become, befit, AS. s[?]man
      to satisfy, pacify; akin to Icel. s[?]ma to honor, to bear
      with, conform to, s[?]mr becoming, fit, s[?]ma to beseem, to
      befit, sama to beseem, semja to arrange, settle, put right,
      Goth. samjan to please, and to E. same. The sense is probably
      due to the adj. seemly. [root]191. See {Same}, a., and cf.
      {Seemly}.]
      To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance;
      to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's
      apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as. [bd]It now
      seemed probable.[b8] --Macaulay.
  
               Thou picture of what thou seem'st.         --Shak.
  
               All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
               There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the
               end thereof are the ways of death.         --Prov. xiv.
                                                                              12.
  
      {It seems}, it appears; it is understood as true; it is said.
  
                     A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his
                     misstress on a great lake.                  --Addison.
  
      Syn: To appear; look.
  
      Usage: {Seem}, {Appear}. To appear has reference to a thing's
                  being presented to our view; as, the sun appears; to
                  seem is connected with the idea of semblance, and
                  usually implies an inference of our mind as to the
                  probability of a thing's being so; as, a storm seems
                  to be coming. [bd]The story appears to be true,[b8]
                  means that the facts, as presented, go to show its
                  truth; [bd]the story seems to be true,[b8] means that
                  it has the semblance of being so, and we infer that it
                  is true. [bd]His first and principal care being to
                  appear unto his people such as he would have them be,
                  and to be such as he appeared.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney.
  
                           Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be,
                           Why seems it so particular with thee? Ham.
                           Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not
                           [bd]seems.[b8]                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Itaconic \It`a*con"ic\, a. [From aconitic, by transposition of
      the letters.] (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, {C5H6O4}, which is
      obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing
      aconitic and other organic acids.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pyrocitric \Pyr`o*cit"ric\, a. [Pyro- + citric: cf. F.
      pyrocitrique.] (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids
      obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called
      respectively {citraconic}, {itaconic}, and {mesaconic} acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Itaconic \It`a*con"ic\, a. [From aconitic, by transposition of
      the letters.] (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, {C5H6O4}, which is
      obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing
      aconitic and other organic acids.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pyrocitric \Pyr`o*cit"ric\, a. [Pyro- + citric: cf. F.
      pyrocitrique.] (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids
      obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called
      respectively {citraconic}, {itaconic}, and {mesaconic} acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Itch \Itch\, n.
      1. (Med.) 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.
  
      2. Any itching eruption.
  
      3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that
            occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also
            {scabies}, {psora}, etc.
  
      4. A constant irritating desire.
  
                     An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden.
  
      {Baker's itch}. See under {Baker}.
  
      {Barber's itch}, sycosis.
  
      {Bricklayer's itch}, an eczema of the hands attended with
            much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
  
      {Grocer's itch}, an itching eruption, being a variety of
            eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus
            sacchari}).
  
      {Itch insect} (Zo[94]l.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes
            scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin,
            thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in
            Append.
  
      {Itch mite}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Itch insect}, above. Also,
            other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the
            horse and ox.
  
      {Sugar baker's itch}, a variety of eczema, due to the action
            of sugar upon the skin.
  
      {Washerwoman's itch}, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring
            among washerwomen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Itch \Itch\, n.
      1. (Med.) 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.
  
      2. Any itching eruption.
  
      3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that
            occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also
            {scabies}, {psora}, etc.
  
      4. A constant irritating desire.
  
                     An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden.
  
      {Baker's itch}. See under {Baker}.
  
      {Barber's itch}, sycosis.
  
      {Bricklayer's itch}, an eczema of the hands attended with
            much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
  
      {Grocer's itch}, an itching eruption, being a variety of
            eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus
            sacchari}).
  
      {Itch insect} (Zo[94]l.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes
            scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin,
            thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in
            Append.
  
      {Itch mite}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Itch insect}, above. Also,
            other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the
            horse and ox.
  
      {Sugar baker's itch}, a variety of eczema, due to the action
            of sugar upon the skin.
  
      {Washerwoman's itch}, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring
            among washerwomen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Itchiness \Itch"i*ness\, n.
      The state of being itchy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Itch \Itch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Itched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Itching}.] [OE. icchen, [?]icchen, AS. giccan; akin to D.
      jeuken, joken, G. jucken, OHG. jucchen.]
      1. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines
            the person to scratch the part affected.
  
                     My mouth hath itched all this long day. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long
            for; as, itching ears. [bd]An itching palm.[b8] --Shak.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ida County, IA (county, FIPS 93)
      Location: 42.38146 N, 95.51308 W
      Population (1990): 8365 (3473 housing units)
      Area: 1118.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Idaho County, ID (county, FIPS 49)
      Location: 45.84691 N, 115.45927 W
      Population (1990): 13783 (6346 housing units)
      Area: 21976.6 sq km (land), 45.6 sq km (water)
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