English Dictionary: itching | by the DICT Development Group |
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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. | |
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