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   Irenidae
         n 1: a family of birds of the suborder Oscines [syn: {Irenidae},
               {family Irenidae}]

English Dictionary: iron out by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron deficiency anaemia
n
  1. a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding
    Synonym(s): iron deficiency anemia, iron deficiency anaemia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron deficiency anemia
n
  1. a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding
    Synonym(s): iron deficiency anemia, iron deficiency anaemia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron disulfide
n
  1. a compound containing two atoms of sulfur combined with iron
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Iron Duke
n
  1. British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)
    Synonym(s): Wellington, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron maiden
n
  1. instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron out
v
  1. settle or put right; "we need to iron out our disagreements"
    Synonym(s): iron out, straighten out, put right
  2. press and smooth with a heated iron; "press your shirts"; "she stood there ironing"
    Synonym(s): iron, iron out, press
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron trap
n
  1. a trap from which there is no escape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron tree
n
  1. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
    Synonym(s): iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iron-tree
n
  1. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
    Synonym(s): iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ironed
adj
  1. (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron [ant: unironed, wrinkled]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ironweed
n
  1. any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue
    Synonym(s): ironweed, vernonia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ironwood
n
  1. handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
    Synonym(s): rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea
  2. exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
  3. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
    Synonym(s): iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree
  4. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
    Synonym(s): Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ironwood tree
n
  1. handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
    Synonym(s): rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea
  2. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
    Synonym(s): iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree
  3. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
    Synonym(s): Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irremediable
adj
  1. impossible to remedy or correct or redress; "an irremediable error"; "irremediable defects of character"
    Antonym(s): remediable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iron \I"ron\ ([imac]"[ucr]rn), a. [AS. [c6]ren, [c6]sen. See
      {Iron}, n.]
      1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar,
            dust.
  
      2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.
  
      3. Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of
            endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:
            (a) Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
  
                           Iron years of wars and dangers.   --Rowe.
  
                           Jove crushed the nations with an iron rod.
                                                                              --Pope.
            (b) Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.
            (c) Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.
            (d) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.
                  [bd]Him death's iron sleep oppressed.[b8] --Philips.
  
      Note: Iron is often used in composition, denoting made of
               iron, relating to iron, of or with iron; producing
               iron, etc.; resembling iron, literally or figuratively,
               in some of its properties or characteristics; as,
               iron-shod, iron-sheathed, iron-fisted, iron-framed,
               iron-handed, iron-hearted, iron foundry or
               iron-foundry.
  
      {Iron age}.
            (a) (Myth.) The age following the golden, silver, and
                  bronze ages, and characterized by a general
                  degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary
                  excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is
                  commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of
                  Rome by the Goths, A. D. 410.
            (b) (Arch[91]ol.) That stage in the development of any
                  people characterized by the use of iron implements in
                  the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.
  
      {Iron cement}, a cement for joints, composed of cast-iron
            borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.
  
      {Iron clay} (Min.), a yellowish clay containing a large
            proportion of an ore of iron.
  
      {Iron cross}, a Prussian order of military merit; also, the
            decoration of the order.
  
      {Iron crown}, a golden crown set with jewels, belonging
            originally to the Lombard kings, and indicating the
            dominion of Italy. It was so called from containing a
            circle said to have been forged from one of the nails in
            the cross of Christ.
  
      {Iron flint} (Min.), an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous
            variety of quartz.
  
      {Iron founder}, a maker of iron castings.
  
      {Iron foundry}, the place where iron castings are made.
  
      {Iron furnace}, a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or
            for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a
            reverberatory; a bloomery.
  
      {Iron glance} (Min.), hematite.
  
      {Iron hat}, a headpiece of iron or steel, shaped like a hat
            with a broad brim, and used as armor during the Middle
            Ages.
  
      {Iron horse}, a locomotive engine. [Colloq.]
  
      {Iron liquor}, a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant
            by dyers.
  
      {Iron man} (Cotton Manuf.), a name for the self-acting
            spinning mule.
  
      {Iron} {mold [or] mould}, a yellow spot on cloth stained by
            rusty iron.
  
      {Iron ore} (Min.), any native compound of iron from which the
            metal may be profitably extracted. The principal ores are
            magnetite, hematite, siderite, limonite, G[94]thite,
            turgite, and the bog and clay iron ores.
  
      {Iron pyrites} (Min.), common pyrites, or pyrite. See
            {Pyrites}.
  
      {Iron sand}, an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron
            ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.
  
      {Iron scale}, the thin film which on the surface of wrought
            iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of
            the magnetic oxide of iron, {Fe3O4>}.
  
      {Iron works}, a furnace where iron is smelted, or a forge,
            rolling mill, or foundry, where it is made into heavy
            work, such as shafting, rails, cannon, merchant bar, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iron \I"ron\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ironed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Ironing}.]
      1. To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to
            smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes
            used with out.
  
      2. To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. [bd]Ironed
            like a malefactor.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.
  
      3. To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironheads \I"ron*heads`\, n. (Bot.)
      A European composite herb ({Centaurea nigra}); -- so called
      from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball
      fixed on a long handle. --Dr. Prior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironweed \I"ron*weed`\, n. (Bot.)
      A tall weed with purplish flowers ({Vernonia
      Noveboracensis}). The name is also applied to other plants of
      the same genus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironbark tree \I"ron*bark` tree`\ (Bot.)
      The Australian {Eucalyptus Sideroxylon}, used largely by
      carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also {ironwood}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironwood \I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
      A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
  
      Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam
               are so called; also the {Olneya Tesota}, a small tree
               of Arizona; in the West Indies, the {Erythroxylon
               areolatum}, and several other unrelated trees; in
               China, the {Metrosideros vera}; in India, the {Mesua
               ferrea}, and two species of {Inga}; in Australia, the
               {Eucalyptus Sideroxylon}, and in many countries,
               species of {Sideroxylon} and {Diospyros}, and many
               other trees.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titi \Ti"ti\, n. [Orig. uncert.]
      1. A tree of the southern United States ({Cliftonia
            monophylla}) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant
            white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes; -- called
            also {black titi}, {buckwheat tree}, and {ironwood}.
  
      2. Any related tree of the genus {Cyrilla}, often disting. as
            {white titi}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hornbeam \Horn"beam`\, n. [See {Beam}.] (Bot.)
      A tree of the genus {Carpinus} ({C. Americana}), having a
      smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and
      very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the
      United States, and is also called {ironwood}. The English
      hornbeam is {C. Betulus}. The American is called also {blue
      beech} and {water beech}.
  
      {Hop hornbeam}. (Bot.) See under {Hop}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironbark tree \I"ron*bark` tree`\ (Bot.)
      The Australian {Eucalyptus Sideroxylon}, used largely by
      carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also {ironwood}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironwood \I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
      A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
  
      Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam
               are so called; also the {Olneya Tesota}, a small tree
               of Arizona; in the West Indies, the {Erythroxylon
               areolatum}, and several other unrelated trees; in
               China, the {Metrosideros vera}; in India, the {Mesua
               ferrea}, and two species of {Inga}; in Australia, the
               {Eucalyptus Sideroxylon}, and in many countries,
               species of {Sideroxylon} and {Diospyros}, and many
               other trees.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titi \Ti"ti\, n. [Orig. uncert.]
      1. A tree of the southern United States ({Cliftonia
            monophylla}) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant
            white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes; -- called
            also {black titi}, {buckwheat tree}, and {ironwood}.
  
      2. Any related tree of the genus {Cyrilla}, often disting. as
            {white titi}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hornbeam \Horn"beam`\, n. [See {Beam}.] (Bot.)
      A tree of the genus {Carpinus} ({C. Americana}), having a
      smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and
      very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the
      United States, and is also called {ironwood}. The English
      hornbeam is {C. Betulus}. The American is called also {blue
      beech} and {water beech}.
  
      {Hop hornbeam}. (Bot.) See under {Hop}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironbark tree \I"ron*bark` tree`\ (Bot.)
      The Australian {Eucalyptus Sideroxylon}, used largely by
      carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also {ironwood}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ironwood \I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
      A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
  
      Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam
               are so called; also the {Olneya Tesota}, a small tree
               of Arizona; in the West Indies, the {Erythroxylon
               areolatum}, and several other unrelated trees; in
               China, the {Metrosideros vera}; in India, the {Mesua
               ferrea}, and two species of {Inga}; in Australia, the
               {Eucalyptus Sideroxylon}, and in many countries,
               species of {Sideroxylon} and {Diospyros}, and many
               other trees.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titi \Ti"ti\, n. [Orig. uncert.]
      1. A tree of the southern United States ({Cliftonia
            monophylla}) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant
            white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes; -- called
            also {black titi}, {buckwheat tree}, and {ironwood}.
  
      2. Any related tree of the genus {Cyrilla}, often disting. as
            {white titi}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hornbeam \Horn"beam`\, n. [See {Beam}.] (Bot.)
      A tree of the genus {Carpinus} ({C. Americana}), having a
      smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and
      very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the
      United States, and is also called {ironwood}. The English
      hornbeam is {C. Betulus}. The American is called also {blue
      beech} and {water beech}.
  
      {Hop hornbeam}. (Bot.) See under {Hop}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irremediable \Ir`re*me"di*a*ble\, a. [L. irremediabilis: cf. F.
      irr[82]m[82]diable. See {In-} not, and {Remediable}.]
      Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as,
      an irremediable disease or evil.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irremediableness \Ir`re*me"di*a*ble*ness\, n.
      The state or quality of being irremediable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irremediably \Ir`re*me"di*a*bly\, adv.
      In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or
      correction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irremittable \Ir`re*mit"ta*ble\, a.
      Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. --Holinshed.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Irondale, AL (city, FIPS 37864)
      Location: 33.53232 N, 86.67630 W
      Population (1990): 9454 (3742 housing units)
      Area: 22.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 35210
   Irondale, GA (CDP, FIPS 41347)
      Location: 33.48043 N, 84.35891 W
      Population (1990): 3352 (1137 housing units)
      Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Irondale, MO (city, FIPS 35396)
      Location: 37.83424 N, 90.67088 W
      Population (1990): 474 (184 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63648
   Irondale, OH (village, FIPS 37422)
      Location: 40.57268 N, 80.72601 W
      Population (1990): 382 (161 housing units)
      Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 43932

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Irondequoit, NY (CDP, FIPS 37737)
      Location: 43.21027 N, 77.57210 W
      Population (1990): 52322 (22151 housing units)
      Area: 39.2 sq km (land), 4.2 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ironto, VA
      Zip code(s): 24087

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ironton, MN (city, FIPS 31274)
      Location: 46.48093 N, 93.99665 W
      Population (1990): 553 (268 housing units)
      Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56455
   Ironton, MO (city, FIPS 35468)
      Location: 37.59673 N, 90.63583 W
      Population (1990): 1539 (685 housing units)
      Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
   Ironton, OH (city, FIPS 37464)
      Location: 38.53248 N, 82.67846 W
      Population (1990): 12751 (5720 housing units)
      Area: 10.7 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 45638
   Ironton, WI (village, FIPS 37225)
      Location: 43.54472 N, 90.14165 W
      Population (1990): 200 (101 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ironwood, MI (city, FIPS 41060)
      Location: 46.45446 N, 90.15256 W
      Population (1990): 6849 (3410 housing units)
      Area: 15.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 49938

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Irwindale, CA (city, FIPS 36826)
      Location: 34.11193 N, 117.96756 W
      Population (1990): 1050 (282 housing units)
      Area: 24.1 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 91706

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Irwinton, GA (town, FIPS 41400)
      Location: 32.81141 N, 83.17467 W
      Population (1990): 641 (282 housing units)
      Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 31042
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