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   Iraqi Kurdistan
         n 1: the part of Kurdistan that is in northwestern Iraq

English Dictionary: irresistibly by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Iris kochii
n
  1. iris of northern Italy having deep blue-purple flowers; similar to but smaller than Iris germanica
    Synonym(s): German iris, Iris kochii
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish capital
n
  1. capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic
    Synonym(s): Dublin, Irish capital, capital of Ireland
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish coffee
n
  1. sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and whipped cream
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish Gaelic
n
  1. the Celtic language of Ireland [syn: Irish, {Irish Gaelic}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish gorse
n
  1. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
    Synonym(s): gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish Sea
n
  1. an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish setter
n
  1. an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat
    Synonym(s): Irish setter, red setter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish soda bread
n
  1. round loaf made with soda and buttermilk; often containing caraway seeds and raisins
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish stew
n
  1. meat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish strawberry
n
  1. small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor
    Synonym(s): strawberry tree, Irish strawberry, Arbutus unedo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish whiskey
n
  1. whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley [syn: Irish, Irish whiskey, Irish whisky]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Irish whisky
n
  1. whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley [syn: Irish, Irish whiskey, Irish whisky]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Iroquois
n
  1. any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
  2. a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
    Synonym(s): Iroquoian, Iroquois, Iroquoian language
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Iroquois League
n
  1. a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
    Synonym(s): Iroquois League, League of Iroquois, Five Nations, Six Nations
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irresistibility
n
  1. the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist
    Synonym(s): irresistibility, irresistibleness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irresistible
adj
  1. impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
    Synonym(s): irresistible, resistless
    Antonym(s): resistible
  2. overpoweringly attractive; "irresistible beauty"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irresistible impulse
n
  1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid; "he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident"
    Synonym(s): compulsion, irresistible impulse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irresistibleness
n
  1. the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist
    Synonym(s): irresistibility, irresistibleness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
irresistibly
adv
  1. incapable of being resisted; "the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man"
    Synonym(s): overwhelmingly, overpoweringly, irresistibly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iricism \I"ri*cism\, n.
      Irishism. [R.] --Jeffrey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
  
      {Spanish bayonet} (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
            alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
            also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
            United States and mexico. Called also {Spanish daggers}.
           
  
      {Spanish bean} (Bot.) See the Note under {Bean}.
  
      {Spanish black}, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
            --Ure.
  
      {Spanish broom} (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
            junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
  
      {Spanish brown}, a species of earth used in painting, having
            a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
            sesquioxide of iron.
  
      {Spanish buckeye} (Bot.), a small tree ({Ungnadia speciosa})
            of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
            having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
  
      {Spanish burton} (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
            blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two
            single blocks. --Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
  
      {Spanish chalk} (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
            because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
  
      {Spanish cress} (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({lepidium
            Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.
  
      {Spanish curiew} (Zo[94]l.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
           
  
      {Spanish daggers} (Bot.) See {Spanish bayonet}.
  
      {Spanish elm} (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
            Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.
  
      {Spanish feretto}, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
            calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
           
  
      {Spanish flag} (Zo[94]l.), the California rockfish
            ({Sebastichthys rubrivinctus}). It is conspicuously
            colored with bands of red and white.
  
      {Spanish fly} (Zo[94]l.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
            the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
            {Blister beetle} under {Blister}, and {Cantharis}.
  
      {Spanish fox} (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
  
      {Spanish grass}. (Bot.) See {Esparto}.
  
      {Spanish juice} (Bot.), licorice.
  
      {Spanish leather}. See {Cordwain}.
  
      {Spanish mackerel}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) A species of mackerel ({Scomber colias}) found both in
            Europe and America. In America called {chub mackerel},
            {big-eyed mackerel}, and {bull mackerel}.
      (b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
            yellow round spots ({Scomberomorus maculatus}), highly
            esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
            erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
            Mackerel.
  
      {Spanish main}, the name formerly given to the southern
            portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
            coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
            ships from the New to the Old World.
  
      {Spanish moss}. (Bot.) See {Tillandsia}.
  
      {Spanish needles} (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
            bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
  
      {Spanish nut} (Bot.), a bulbous plant ({Iris Sisyrinchium})
            of the south of Europe.
  
      {Spanish potato} (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
            {Potato}.
  
      {Spanish red}, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
            red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
  
      {Spanish reef} (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
            jib-headed sail.
  
      {Spanish sheep} (Zo[94]l.), a merino.
  
      {Spanish white}, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
            pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
            pigment.
  
      {Spanish windlass} (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
            wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
            serve as a lever.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iris \I"ris\, n.; pl. E. {Irises}, L. {Irides}. [L. iris,
      iridis, the goddess, Gr. [?], [?], the rainbow, iris of the
      eye, the plant Iris. Cf. {Orris}.]
      1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of the rainbow, and
            swift-footed messenger of the gods. --Shak.
  
      2. The rainbow. --Sir T. Browne.
  
      3. An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of
            colors. --Tennyson.
  
      4. (Anat.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil,
            and forming the colored portion of the eye. See {Eye}.
  
      5. (Bot.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous
            or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce
            (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are
            examples. See Illust. of {Flower-de-luce}.
  
      6. (Her.) See {Fleur-de-lis}, 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irish \I"rish\, a. [AS. [?]risc, fr. [?]ras the Irish. Cf.
      {Aryan}, {Erse}.]
      Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced
      in Ireland.
  
      {Irish elk}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Elk}.
  
      {Irish moss}.
      (a) (Bot.) Carrageen.
      (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange.
  
      {Irish poplin}. See {Poplin}.
  
      {Irish potato}, the ordinary white potato, so called because
            it is a favorite article of food in Ireland.
  
      {Irish reef}, [or] {Irishman's reef} (Naut.), the head of a
            sail tied up.
  
      {Irish stew}, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces
            and stewed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irishism \I*rish"ism\, n.
      A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iroquois \Ir`o*quois"\, n. sing. & pl. [F.] (Ethnol.)
      A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly
      inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five
      Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irrecognition \Ir*rec`og*ni"tion\, n. [Pref. in- not +
      recognition.]
      A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. --Lamb.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irrecognizable \Ir*rec"og*ni`za*ble\ (?; 277), a.
      Not recognizable. --Carlyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irrecusable \Ir`re*cu"sa*ble\, a. [L. irrecusabilis; pref. ir--
      not + recusabilis that should be rejected, fr. recusare to
      reject: cf. F. irr[82]cusable.]
      Not liable to exception or rejection. --Sir W. Hamilton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irrejectable \Ir`re*ject"a*ble\, a.
      That can not be rejected; irresistible. --Boyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresistance \Ir`re*sist"ance\, n.
      Nonresistance; passive submission.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresistibility \Ir`re*sist`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
      irr[82]sistibilit[82].]
      The quality or state of being irrestible, irresistibleness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresistible \Ir`re*sist"i*ble\, a. [Pref. ir- not + resistible:
      cf. F. irr[82]sistible.]
      That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to
      opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible
      attraction.
  
               An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek
               happiness.                                             --J. M. Mason.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresistibleness \Ir`re*sist"i*ble*ness\, n.
      Quality of being irrestible.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresistibly \Ir`re*sist"i*bly\, adv.
      In an irrestible manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresistless \Ir`re*sist"less\, a.
      Irresistible. [Obs.] --Glanvill.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresuscitable \Ir`re*sus"ci*ta*ble\, a.
      Incapable of being resuscitated or revived. --
      {Ir`re*sus"ci*ta*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irresuscitable \Ir`re*sus"ci*ta*ble\, a.
      Incapable of being resuscitated or revived. --
      {Ir`re*sus"ci*ta*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Irriguous \Ir*rig"u*ous\, a. [L. irriguus. See {Irrigate}.]
      1. Watered; watery; moist; dewy. [Obs.]
  
                     The flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spreads her
                     store.                                                --Milton.
  
      2. Gently penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --J. Philips.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Iroquois, IL (village, FIPS 37712)
      Location: 40.82874 N, 87.58474 W
      Population (1990): 199 (92 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Iroquois, SD (city, FIPS 32020)
      Location: 44.36646 N, 97.84973 W
      Population (1990): 328 (154 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57353

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Iroquois County, IL (county, FIPS 75)
      Location: 40.74204 N, 87.82362 W
      Population (1990): 30787 (12819 housing units)
      Area: 2891.8 sq km (land), 4.2 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Iroquois Point, HI (CDP, FIPS 19100)
      Location: 21.32533 N, 157.98133 W
      Population (1990): 4188 (1180 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
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