IPage 250
- English Word Ischium Definition One of the pleurae of insects.
- English Word Ischuretic Definition Having the quality of relieving ischury.
- English Word Ischuretic Definition An ischuretic medicine.
- English Word Ischury Definition A retention or suppression of urine.
- English Word Isentropic Definition Having equal entropy.
- English Word Isethionic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid, HO.C2H4.SO3H, obtained as an oily or crystalline substance, by the action of sulphur trioxide on alcohol or ether. It is derivative of sulphuric acid.
- English Word Ishmaelite Definition A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, "His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him."
- English Word Ishmaelite Definition One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast.
- English Word Ishmaelite Definition See Ismaelian.
- English Word Ishmaelitish Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites.
- English Word Isiac Definition Pertaining to the goddess Isis; as, Isiac mysteries.
- English Word Isicle Definition A icicle.
- English Word Isidorian Definition Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century.
- English Word Isinglass Definition A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue.
- English Word Isinglass Definition A popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets.
- English Word Isis Definition The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.
- English Word Isis Definition Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.
- English Word Isis Definition One of the asteroids.
- English Word Islam Definition The religion of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islamism. Their formula of faith is: There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.
- English Word Islam Definition The whole body of Mohammedans, or the countries which they occupy.
- English Word Islamism Definition The faith, doctrines, or religious system of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islam.
- English Word Islamite Definition A Mohammedan.
- English Word Islamitic Definition Of or pertaining to Islam; Mohammedan.
- English Word Islamize Definition To conform, or cause to conform, to the religion of Islam.
- English Word Islamized Definition of Islamize
- English Word Islamizing Definition of Islamize
- English Word Island Definition A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
- English Word Island Definition Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
- English Word Island Definition See Isle, n., 2.
- English Word Island Definition To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.