IPage 5
- English Word Ice Definition To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
- English Word Ice plant Definition A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass.
- English Word Ice-built Definition Composed of ice.
- English Word Ice-built Definition Loaded with ice.
- English Word Iceberg Definition A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
- English Word Icebird Definition An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar.
- English Word Icebound Definition Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast.
- English Word Iced Definition of Ice
- English Word Iced Definition Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.
- English Word Iced Definition Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake.
- English Word Icefall Definition A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.
- English Word Iceland moss Definition A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.
- English Word Iceland spar Definition A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.
- English Word Icelander Definition A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
- English Word Icelandic Definition Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
- English Word Icelandic Definition The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken.
- English Word Iceman Definition A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
- English Word Iceman Definition One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.
- English Word Icemen Definition of Iceman
- English Word Icequake Definition The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.