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  • English Word It Definition As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
  • English Word Ita palm Definition A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.
  • English Word Itacism Definition Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reu/hlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.
  • English Word Itacist Definition One who is in favor of itacism.
  • English Word Itacolumite Definition A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.
  • English Word Itaconic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids.
  • English Word Itala Definition An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).
  • English Word Italian Definition Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
  • English Word Italian Definition A native or inhabitant of Italy.
  • English Word Italian Definition The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.
  • English Word Italianate Definition To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize.
  • English Word Italianate Definition Italianized; Italianated.
  • English Word Italianism Definition A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.
  • English Word Italianism Definition Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
  • English Word Italianize Definition To play the Italian; to speak Italian.
  • English Word Italianize Definition To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate.
  • English Word Italianized Definition of Italianize
  • English Word Italianizing Definition of Italianize
  • English Word Italic Definition Relating to Italy or to its people.
  • English Word Italic Definition Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
  • English Word Italic Definition An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
  • English Word Italicism Definition A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.
  • English Word Italicism Definition The use of Italics.
  • English Word Italicize Definition To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.
  • English Word Italicized Definition of Italicize
  • English Word Italicizing Definition of Italicize
  • English Word Italics Definition of Italic
  • English Word Itch Definition To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
  • English Word Itch Definition To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
  • English Word Itch Definition 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.