Webster's Dictionary 1828

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IOLITE

I'OLITE, noun [Gr. a violet, and stone.] A mineral of a violet blue color, with a shade of purple or black, called also dichroit and cordierite. It occurs in regular six-sided p...

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IONIC

ION'IC, adjective [from Ionia.] The ionic order, in architecture, is that species of column named from Ionia, in Greece. It is more slender than the Doric and Tuscan, but less s...

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IPECACUANHA

IPECACUAN'HA, noun A root produced in South America. Four sorts are mentioned, gray, brown, white, and yellow. The gray, or genuine kind, is referred by Mutis to the Psychotria ...

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IRASCIBILITY

IRASCIBIL'ITYIRAS'CIBLE, adjective [Latin irascor, from ira. See Ire.]Very susceptible of anger; easily provoked or inflamed with resentment; irritable; as an irascible man; an ...

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IRASCIBLE

IRAS'CIBLE, a. [L. irascor, from ira. See Ire.]Very susceptible of anger; easily provoked or inflamed with resentment; irritable; as an irascible man; an irascible temper.

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IRASCIBLENESS

IRAS'CIBLENESS, noun [from irascible.] The quality of being irascible, or easily inflamed by anger; irritability of temper.

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IRE

IRE, noun [Latin ira, wrath. See Eng. Wrath.] Anger; wrath; keen resentment; a word chiefly used in poetry.Thus will persist, relentless in his ire

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IREFUL

I'REFUL, adjective [ire and full.] Angry; wrath; furious with anger.The ireful bastard Orleans.

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IREFULLY

I'REFULLY, adverb In an angry manner.

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IRENARCH

I'RENARCH, noun [Gr.] An officer formerly employed in the Greek empire, to preserve the public tranquillity.

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IRIDESCENCE

IRIDES'CENCE, noun Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow.

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IRIDESCENT

IRIDES'CENT, adjective [from iris.] Having colors like the rainbow.

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IRIDIUM

IRID'IUM, noun [from iris.] A metal of a whitish color, not malleable, found in the ore of platinum, and in a native allow with osmium. Its specific gravity is above 18. It take...

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IRIS

I'RIS, nounplural irises. [Latin iris iridis, the rainbow.]1. The rainbow.2. An appearance resembling the rainbow.3. The colored circle which surrounds the pupil of the eye, by ...

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IRISATED

I'RISATED, adjective Exhibiting the prismatic colors; resembling the rainbow.

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IRISED

I'RISED, adjective Containing colors like those of the rainbow.

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IRISH

I'RISH, adjective Pertaining to Ireland.I'RISH, noun A native of Ireland.1. The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

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IRISHISM

I'RISHISM, noun A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish.

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IRK

IRK, verb transitive urk. To weary; to give pain to; used only impersonally; as, it irketh me, it gives me uneasiness. It is nearly obsolete.

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IRKSOME

IRK'SOME, adjective Wearisome; tedious; tiresome; giving uneasiness; used of something troublesome by long continuance or repetition; as irksome hours; irksome toil or task.

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IRKSOMELY

IRK'SOMELY, adverb In a wearisome or tedious manner.

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IRKSOMENESS

IRK'SOMENESS, noun Tediousness; wearisomeness.

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IRON

IRON, noun i'urn, or i'rn. [Latin ferrum, for herrum. The radical elements of this word are not easily ascertained.]1. A metal, the hardest, most common and most useful of all t...

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IRON-CLAY

I'RON-CLAY, noun A substance intermediate between basalt and wacky, of a reddish brown color, and occurring massive or vesicular.

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IRONED

I'RONED, participle passive Smoothed with an iron; shackled; armed with iron.

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IRONFLINT

I'RONFLINT, noun Ferruginous quartz; a subspecies of quartz, opake or translucent at the edges, with a fracture more or less conchoidal, shining and nearly vitreous. It is somet...

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IRONHEARTED

I'RONHE'ARTED, adjective Hardhearted; unfeeling; cruel.