English Dictionary: Isoetaceae | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Iced \Iced\, a. 1. Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water. 2. Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake. {Iced cream}. Same as {Ice cream}, under {Ice}. | |
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Ichthus \Ich"thus\, n. [Gr. [?].] In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words [?], [?], [?] [?], [?], Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior. | |
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Ichthyic \Ich"thy*ic\, a. [Gr. [?], [?], a fish.] (Zo[94]l.) Like, or pertaining to, fishes. | |
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Ichthyocol \Ich"thy*o*col\, Ichthyocolla \Ich`thy*o*col"la\, n. [L. ichthyocolla, Gr. [?]; [?], [?], a fish + [?] glue: cf. F. ichthyocolle.] Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes. | |
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Ichthyocol \Ich"thy*o*col\, Ichthyocolla \Ich`thy*o*col"la\, n. [L. ichthyocolla, Gr. [?]; [?], [?], a fish + [?] glue: cf. F. ichthyocolle.] Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes. | |
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Ichthyocoprolite \Ich`thy*o*cop"ro*lite\, n. [Gr. [?], [?], a fish + E. coprolite.] (Geol.) Fossil dung of fishes. | |
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Ichthyography \Ich`thy*og"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. [?], [?] + graphy: cf. F. ichthyographie.] A treatise on fishes. | |
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Ichthyohagy \Ich`thy*oh"a*gy\, n. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. ichthyophagie.] The practice of eating, or living upon, fish. | |
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Ichthyosaur \Ich"thy*o*saur\, n. [Cf. F. ichthyosaure.] (Paleon.) One of the Ichthyosaura. | |
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d8Ichthyosaurus \[d8]Ich`thy*o*sau"rus\, n.; pl. {Ichthyosauri}. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + say^ros a lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebr[91], resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, O[94]litic, and Cretaceous formations. | |
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Ichthyosaurian \Ich`thy*o*sau"ri*an\, a. (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria. -- n. One of the Ichthyosauria. | |
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Ictic \Ic"tic\, a. [L. ictus blow.] Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. [R.] --H. Bushnell. | |
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Isatic \I*sat"ic\, Isatinic \I`sa*tin"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, isatin; as, isatic acid, which is also called trioxindol. | |
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2. (Chem.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, {Isatis tinctoria}, {Indigofera tinctoria}, {I. Anil}, {Nereum tinctorium}, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican. Note: Commercial indigo contains the essential coloring principle indigo blue or indigotine, with several other dyes; as, indigo red, indigo brown, etc., and various impurities. Indigo is insoluble in ordinary reagents, with the exception of strong sulphuric acid. {Chinese indigo} (Bot.), {Isatis indigotica}, a kind of woad. {Wild indigo} (Bot.), the American herb {Baptisia tinctoria} which yields a poor quality of indigo, as do several other species of the same genus. | |
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2. (Chem.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, {Isatis tinctoria}, {Indigofera tinctoria}, {I. Anil}, {Nereum tinctorium}, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican. Note: Commercial indigo contains the essential coloring principle indigo blue or indigotine, with several other dyes; as, indigo red, indigo brown, etc., and various impurities. Indigo is insoluble in ordinary reagents, with the exception of strong sulphuric acid. {Chinese indigo} (Bot.), {Isatis indigotica}, a kind of woad. {Wild indigo} (Bot.), the American herb {Baptisia tinctoria} which yields a poor quality of indigo, as do several other species of the same genus. | |
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d8Isatis \[d8]I"sa*tis\ (?; 277), n. [L., a kind of plant, Gr. [?] woad.] (Bot.) A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the {Isatis tinctoria}, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad. | |
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Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[be]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also {wad}, and {wade}.] 1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({Isatis tinctoria}). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. 2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. --Milton. {Wild woad} (Bot.), the weld ({Reseda luteola}). See {Weld}. {Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad. | |
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Pastel \Pas"tel\, n. [F.; cf. It. pastello. Cf. {Pastil}.] 1. A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written {pastil}.] [bd]Charming heads in pastel.[b8] --W. Black. 2. (Bot.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad ({Isatis tinctoria}); also, the dye itself. | |
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Isatogen \I*sat"o*gen\, n. [Isatin + -gen.] (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous radical, {C8H4NO2}, regarded as the essential residue of a series of compounds, related to isatin, which easily pass by reduction to indigo blue. -- {I*sat`o*gen"ic}, a. | |
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Isatogen \I*sat"o*gen\, n. [Isatin + -gen.] (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous radical, {C8H4NO2}, regarded as the essential residue of a series of compounds, related to isatin, which easily pass by reduction to indigo blue. -- {I*sat`o*gen"ic}, a. | |
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Ischiadic \Is`chi*ad"ic\, a. [L. ischiadicus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] the hip joint, hip or loin. Cf. {Sciatic}.] (Anat.) Ischial. [R.] {Ischiadic} {passion [or] disease} (Med.), a rheumatic or neuralgic affection of some part about the hip joint; -- called also {sciatica}. | |
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Ischiatic \Is`chi*at"ic\, a. (Anat.) Same as {Ishial}. | |
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Microspore \Mi"cro*spore\, n. [Micro- + spore.] (Bot.) One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as {Selaginella} and {Isoetes}, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. {Macrospore}. | |
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Isohyetose \I`so*hy"e*tose`\, a. [Iso- + Gr. "yeto`s rain.] (Phys. Geog.) Of or pertaining to lines connecting places on the earth's surface which have a mean annual rainfall. -- n. An isohyetose line. | |
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Wood tick \Wood" tick`\ (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of ticks of the genus {Ixodes} whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is {Ixodes unipunctata}. | |
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Izedism \Iz"e*dism\, n. The religion of the Izedis. |