ICHTHYOLITE
ICH'THYOLITE, noun [Gr. a fish, and a stone.] Fossil fish; or the figure or impression of a fish in rock.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ICH'THYOLITE, noun [Gr. a fish, and a stone.] Fossil fish; or the figure or impression of a fish in rock.
ICHTHYOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to ichthyology.
ICHTHYOL'OGIST, noun [See Ichthyology.] One versed in ichthyology.
ICHTHYOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a fish, and discourse.] The science of fishes, or that part of zoology which treats of fishes, their structure, form and classification, their habits, us...
ICHTHYOPH'AGOUS, adjective [Gr. fish, and to eat.] Eating or subsisting on fish.
ICHTHYOPH'AGY, noun [supra.] The practice of eating fish.
ICHTHYOPHTHAL'MITE, noun [Gr. a fish, and an eye.] Fish-eyestone. [See Apophyllite.]
I'CICLE, noun A pendent conical mass of ice, formed by the freezing of water or other fluid as it flows down an inclined plane, or collects in drops and is suspended. In the nor...
I'CINESS, noun The state of being icy, or of being very cold.1. The state of generating ice.
I'CING, participle present tense Covering with concreted sugar.
I'CON, noun [Gr. an image, to resemble.] An image or representation. [Not in use.]
ICON'OCLAST, noun [Gr. an image, and a breaker, to break.] A breaker or destroyer of images; a name which Catholics give to those who reject the use of images in religious worship.
ICONOCLAS'TIC, adjective Breaking images.
ICONOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. an image, to describe.] The description of images or ancient statues, busts, semi-busts, paintings in fresco, mosaic works, and ancient pieces of miniature.
ICONOL'ATER, noun [Gr. an image, and a servant.] One that worships images; a name given to Romanists.
ICONOL'OGY, noun [Gr. an image, and a discourse.] The doctrine of images or representations.
ICOSAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. twenty, and seat, basis.] Having twenty equal sides.
ICOSAHE'DRON, noun [supra.] A solid of twenty equal sides.In geometry, a regular solid, consisting of twenty triangular pyramids, whose vertices meet in the center of a sphere s...
ICOSAN'DER, noun [Gr. twenty, and a male.] In botany, a plant having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.Note - A writer on botany has suggested that as the proper char...
ICOSAN'DRIAN, noun Pertaining to the class of plants, Icosandria, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.
IC'TERICICTER'ICAL, adjective [Latin ictericus, from icterus, jaundice.] Affected with the jaundice.1. Good in the cure of the jaundice.IC'TERIC, noun A remedy for the jaundice.
ICTER'ICAL, a. [L. ictericus, from icterus, jaundice.] Affected with the jaundice.1. Good in the cure of the jaundice.
ICTERI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin icterus, jaundice.] Yellow; having the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.
I'CY, adjective [from ice.] Abounding with ice; as the icy regions of the north.1. Cold; frosty; as icy chains.2. Made of ice.3. Resembling ice; chilling.Religion lays not an ic...
I'CY-PEARLED, adjective Studded with spangles of ice.I'd, contracted from I would, or I had.
IDE'A, noun [Latin idea; Gr. to see, Latin video.]1. Literally, that which is seen; hence, form, image, model of any thing in the mind; that which is held or comprehended by the...
IDE'AL, adjective Existing in idea; intellectual; mental; as ideal knowledge.There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.1. Visionary; existing i...