IRREVERSIBLENESS — IVYED NWAD IRREVERSIBLENESS.1
IRREVERSIBLENESS, n. State of being irreversible. NWAD IRREVERSIBLENESS.1
IRREVERSIBLY, adv. In a manner which precludes a reversal or repeal. NWAD IRREVERSIBLY.1
IRREVOCABLE, a. [L. irrevocabilis; in and revocabilis, revoco; re and voco, to call.] Not to be recalled or revoked; that cannot be reversed, repealed or annulled; as an irrevocable decree, sentence, edict or doom; irrevocable fate; an irrevocable promise. NWAD IRREVOCABLE.1
IRREVOCABLY, adv. Beyond recall; in a manner precluding repeal. NWAD IRREVOCABLY.1
IRREVOKABLE, a. [in and revokable.] NWAD IRREVOKABLE.1
Not to be recalled; irrevocable. NWAD IRREVOKABLE.2
IRREVOLUBLE, a. That has no revolution. [Not used.] NWAD IRREVOLUBLE.1
IRRIGATE, v.t. [L. irrigo; in and rigo, to water.] NWAD IRRIGATE.1
1. To water; to wet; to moisten; to bedew. NWAD IRRIGATE.2
2. To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon it and spread over it. NWAD IRRIGATE.3
IRRIGATED, pp. Watered; moistened. NWAD IRRIGATED.1
IRRIGATING, ppr. Watering; wetting; moistening. NWAD IRRIGATING.1
IRRIGATION, n. The act of watering or moistening. NWAD IRRIGATION.1
1. In agriculture, the operation of causing water to flow over lands for nourishing plants. NWAD IRRIGATION.2
IRRIGUOUS, a. [L. irriguus. See Irrigate.] NWAD IRRIGUOUS.1
1. Watered; watery; moist. NWAD IRRIGUOUS.2
The flowery lap NWAD IRRIGUOUS.3
Of some irriguous valley spreads her store. NWAD IRRIGUOUS.4
2. Dewy; moist. NWAD IRRIGUOUS.5
IRRISION, n. s as z. [L. irrisio, irrideo; in and ridio, to laugh.] The act of laughing at another. NWAD IRRISION.1
IRRITABILITY, n. [from irritable.] Susceptibility of excitement; the quality of being easily irritated or exasperated; as irritability of temper. NWAD IRRITABILITY.1
1. In physiology, one of the four faculties of the sensorium, by which fibrous contractions are caused in consequence of the irritations excited by external bodies. NWAD IRRITABILITY.2
Irritability differs from sensibility; the most irritable parts of the body not being at all sensible, and vice versa. The heart is endued with the greatest irritability. NWAD IRRITABILITY.3
IRRITABLE, a. [from irritate.] Susceptible of excitement, or of heat and action, as animal bodies. NWAD IRRITABLE.1
1. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as an irritable temper. NWAD IRRITABLE.2
2. In physiology, susceptible of contraction, in consequence of the appulse of an external body. NWAD IRRITABLE.3
In general, there is nothing irritable in the animal body, but the muscular fibers. NWAD IRRITABLE.4
IRRITANT, a. Irritating. NWAD IRRITANT.1
IRRITANT, n. That which excites or irritates. NWAD IRRITANT.2
IRRITATE, v.t. [L. irrito; in and ira, wrath.] NWAD IRRITATE.1
1. To excite heat and redness in the skin or flesh of living animal bodies, as by friction; to inflame; to fret; as, to irritate a wounded part by a coarse bandage. NWAD IRRITATE.2
2. To excite anger; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate. Never irritate a child for trifling faults. The insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. NWAD IRRITATE.3
3. To increase action or violence; to highten excitement in. NWAD IRRITATE.4
Air, if very cold, irritateth the flame. NWAD IRRITATE.5
4. To cause fibrous contractions in an extreme part of the sensorium, as by the appulse of an external body. NWAD IRRITATE.6
IRRITATED, pp. Excited; provoked; caused to contract. NWAD IRRITATED.1
IRRITATING, ppr. Exciting; angering; provoking; causing to contract. NWAD IRRITATING.1
IRRITATION, n. The operation of exciting heat, action, and redness in the skin or flesh of living animals, by friction or other means. NWAD IRRITATION.1
1. The excitement of action in the animal system by the application of food, medicines and the like. NWAD IRRITATION.2
2. Excitement of anger or passion; provocation; exasperation; anger. NWAD IRRITATION.3
3. In physiology, an exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensorium residing in the muscles or organs of sense, in consequence of the appulses of external bodies. NWAD IRRITATION.4
Irritation is the effect of a stimulus applied to an irritable part. NWAD IRRITATION.5
IRRITATIVE, a. Serving to excite or irritate. NWAD IRRITATIVE.1
1. Accompanied with or produced by increased action or irritation; as an irritative fever. NWAD IRRITATIVE.2
IRRITATORY, a. Exciting; stimulating. NWAD IRRITATORY.1
IRRORATION, n. [L. irroratio.] The act of bedewing; the state of being moistened with dew. NWAD IRRORATION.1
IRRUPTION, n. [L. irruption; in and rumpo, to break or burst.] NWAD IRRUPTION.1
1. A bursting in; a breaking or sudden violent rushing into a place. Holland has been often inundated by irruptions of the sea. NWAD IRRUPTION.2
2. A sudden invasion or incursion; a sudden, violent inroad, or entrance of invaders into a place or country; as the irruption of the northern nations into France and Italy. NWAD IRRUPTION.3
IRRUPTIVE, a. Rushing in or upon. NWAD IRRUPTIVE.1
IS, v.i. iz. [L. est.] The third person singular of the substantive verb, which is composed of three or four distinct roots, which appear in the words am, be, are, and is. Is and was coincide with the Latin esse, and Goth. wesan. In the indicative, present tense, it is thus varied; I am, thou art, he, she, or it, is; we, ye or you, they, are. In writing and speaking, the vowel is often dropped; as, he’s gone; there’s none left. NWAD IS.1
ISABEL, n. Isabel yellow is a brownish yellow, with a shade of brownish red. NWAD ISABEL.1
ISAGOGICICAL, a. Introductory. NWAD ISAGOGICICAL.1
ISAGON, n. [Gr. equal, and an angle.] A figure whose angles are equal. NWAD ISAGON.1
ISATIS, n. In zoology, the arctic fox or Canis lagopus. NWAD ISATIS.1
ISCHIADIC, a. [L. ischiadicus, from ischias, the sciatica, from ischium, the hip.] Pertaining to the hip. The ischiadic passion or disease is ranked by Cullen with rheumatism. It is a rheumatic affection of the hip joint. It is called also sciatica. It is sometimes seated in the tendinous expansion which covers the muscles of the thigh, but its most common seat is in the muscles, or in the capsular ligament, and it is then either rheumatic or gouty. NWAD ISCHIADIC.1
ISCHURETIC, a. [See Ischury.] NWAD ISCHURETIC.1
Having the quality of relieving ischury. NWAD ISCHURETIC.2
ISCHURETIC, n. A medicine adapted to relieve ischury. NWAD ISCHURETIC.3
ISCHURY, n. [Gr. to stop, and urine.] NWAD ISCHURY.1
A stoppage or suppression of urine. NWAD ISCHURY.2
ISERIN, ISERINE, n. A mineral of an iron black color, and of a splendent metallic luster, occurring in small obtuse angular grains. It is harder than feldspar, and consists of the oxyds of iron and titanium, with a small portion of uranium. NWAD ISERIN.1
ISH, a termination of English words, is, in Sax. isc. Dan. isk, G. isch; and not improbably, it is the termination esque, in French, as in grotesque, It. esco, in grotesco, and the Latin termination of the inceptive verb, as in fervesco. Annexed to English adjectives, ish denotes diminutive, or a small degree of the quality; as whitish, from white; yellowish, from yellow. NWAD ISH.1
ISH annexed to names forms a possessive adjective; as in Swedish, Danish, English. NWAD ISH.2
ISH annexed to common nouns forms an adjective denoting a participation of the qualities expressed by the noun; as foolish, from fool; roguish, from rogue; brutish, from brute. This is the more common use of this termination. NWAD ISH.3
ISICLE, a pendant shoot of ice, is more generally written icicle. [See Ice and Icicle.] NWAD ISICLE.1
ISINGLASS, n. i’zinglass. [that is, ise or ice-glass.] NWAD ISINGLASS.1
A substance consisting chiefly of gelatin, of a firm texture and whitish color, prepared from the sounds or air-bladders of certain fresh water fishes, particularly of the huso, a fish of the sturgeon kind, found in the rivers of Russia. It is used as an agglutinant and in fining wines. NWAD ISINGLASS.2
ISINGLASS-STONE. [See Mica.] NWAD ISINGLASS-STONE.1
ISLAMISM, n. The true faith, according to the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism. NWAD ISLAMISM.1
ISLAND, n. i’land. [This is an absurd compound of isle and land, that is, land-in-water land, or ieland-land. There is no such legitimate word in English, and it is found only in books. The genuine word always used in discourse is our native word, Sax. ealong, D.G. eiland.] NWAD ISLAND.1
1. A tract of land surrounded by water. NWAD ISLAND.2
2. A large mass of floating ice, is called an island of ice. NWAD ISLAND.3
ISLANDER, n. i’lander. An inhabitant of an ieland. NWAD ISLANDER.1
ISLE, ILE, n. ile. [L. insula.] NWAD ISLE.1
1. A tract of land surrounded by water, or a detached portion of land embosomed in the ocean, in a lake or river. NWAD ISLE.2
The isles shall wait for his law. Isaiah 42:4. NWAD ISLE.3
2. A passage in a church. [See Aisle.] NWAD ISLE.4
ISLET, n. i’let. A little ieland. NWAD ISLET.1
ISOCHRONAL, ISOCHRONOUS, a. [Gr. equal, and time.] Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times. NWAD ISOCHRONAL.1
An isochronal line, is that in which a heavy body is supposed to descend without acceleration. NWAD ISOCHRONAL.2
Isochronal vibrations of a pendulum are such as are performed in the same space of time. NWAD ISOCHRONAL.3
ISOLATE, v.t. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself; to insulate. NWAD ISOLATE.1
ISOLATED, pp. or a. Standing detached from others of a like kind; placed by itself or alone. NWAD ISOLATED.1
ISOLATING, ppr. Placing by itself or detached like an isle. NWAD ISOLATING.1
ISOMORPHISM, n. [Gr. like, and form.] The quality of a substance by which it is capable of replacing another in a compound, without an alteration of its primitive form. NWAD ISOMORPHISM.1
ISOMORPHOUS, a. Capable of retaining its primitive form in a compound. NWAD ISOMORPHOUS.1
ISONOMY, n. [Gr. equal, and law.] NWAD ISONOMY.1
Equal law; equal distribution of rights and privileges. NWAD ISONOMY.2
ISOPERIMETRICAL, a. [See Isoperimetry.] NWAD ISOPERIMETRICAL.1
Having equal boundaries; as isoperimetrical figures or bodies. NWAD ISOPERIMETRICAL.2
ISOPERIMETRY, n. [Gr. equal, around, and measure.] NWAD ISOPERIMETRY.1
In geometry, the science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries. NWAD ISOPERIMETRY.2
ISOSCELES, a. [Gr. equal, and leg.] Having two legs only that are equal; as an isosceles triangle. NWAD ISOSCELES.1
ISRAELITE, n. A descendant of Israel or Jacob; a Jew. NWAD ISRAELITE.1
ISRAELITIC, ISRAELITISH, a. Pertaining to Israel. NWAD ISRAELITIC.1
ISOTHERMAL, a. [Gr. equal, proper, and heat.] Having an equal degree of heat, or a like temperature. NWAD ISOTHERMAL.1
ISOTONIC, a. [Gr. equal, and tone.] Having equal tones. The isotonic system, in music, consists of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones. NWAD ISOTONIC.1
ISSUABLE, a. [from issue.] That may be issued. In law, an issuable term, is one in which issues are made up. NWAD ISSUABLE.1
ISSUE, n. ish’u. NWAD ISSUE.1
1. The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out of any inclosed place; egress; applied to water or other fluid, to smoke, to a body of men, etc. We say, an issue of water from a pipe, from a spring, or from a river; an issue of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows; an issue of people from a door or house. NWAD ISSUE.2
2. A sending out; as the issue of an order from a commanding officer or from a court; the issue of money from a treasury. NWAD ISSUE.3
3. Event; consequence; end or ultimate result. Our present condition will be best for us in the issue. NWAD ISSUE.4
4. Passage out; outlet. NWAD ISSUE.5
To God the Lord belong the issues from death. Psalm 68:20. NWAD ISSUE.6
5. Progeny; a child or children; offspring; as, he had issue, a son; and we speak of issue of the whole blood or half blood. A man dies without issue. NWAD ISSUE.7
6. Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements or other property. A conveyed to B all his right to a term for years, with all the issues, rents and profits. NWAD ISSUE.8
7. In surgery, a fontanel; a little ulcer made in some part of an animal body, to promote discharges. NWAD ISSUE.9
8. Evacuation; discharge; a flux or running. Leviticus 12:7; Matthew 9:20. NWAD ISSUE.10
9. In law, the close or result of pleadings; the point of matter depending in suit, on which the parties join, and put the case to trial by a jury. NWAD ISSUE.11
10. A giving out from a repository; delivery; as an issue of rations or provisions from a store, or of powder from a magazine. NWAD ISSUE.12
ISSUE, v.i. NWAD ISSUE.13
1. To pass or flow out; to run out of any inclosed place; to proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; blood issues from wounds; sap or gum issues from trees; light issues from the sun. NWAD ISSUE.14
2. To go out; to rush out. Troops issued from the town and attacked the besiegers. NWAD ISSUE.15
3. To proceed, as progeny; to spring. NWAD ISSUE.16
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee-- 2 Kings 20:18. NWAD ISSUE.17
4. To proceed; to be produced; to arise; to grow or accrue; as rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock. NWAD ISSUE.18
5. In legal pleadings, to come to a point in fact of law, on which the parties join and rest the decision of the cause. Our lawyers say, a cause issues to the court or to the jury; it issues in demurrer. NWAD ISSUE.19
6. To close; to end. We know not how the cause will issue. NWAD ISSUE.20
ISSUE, v.t. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue money from a treasury, or notes from a bank. NWAD ISSUE.21
1. To send out; to deliver from authority; as, to issue an order from the department of war; to issue a writ or precept. NWAD ISSUE.22
2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions from a store. NWAD ISSUE.23
ISSUED, pp. Descended; sent out. NWAD ISSUED.1
ISSUELESS, a. Having no issue or progeny; wanting children. NWAD ISSUELESS.1
ISSUING, ppr. Flowing or passing out; proceeding from, sending out. NWAD ISSUING.1
ISSUING, n. A flowing or passing out. NWAD ISSUING.2
1. Emission; a sending out, as of bills or notes. NWAD ISSUING.3
ISTHMUS, n. ist’mus. [L.] A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland. Such is the Neck, so called, which connects Boston with the main land at Roxbury. But the word is applied to land of considerable extent, between seas; as the isthmus of Darien, which connects North and South America, and the isthmus between the Euxine and Caspian seas. NWAD ISTHMUS.1
IT, pron. [L. id.] NWAD IT.1
1. A substitute or pronoun of the neuter gender, sometimes called demonstrative, and standing for any thing except males and females, “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23. Here it is the substitute for heart. NWAD IT.2
2. It is much used as the nominative case or word to verbs called impersonal; as it rains; it snows. In this case, there is no determinate thing to which it can be referred. NWAD IT.3
In other cases, it may be referred to matter, affair, or some other word. Is it come to this? NWAD IT.4
3. Very often, it is used to introduce a sentence, preceding a verb as a nominative, but referring to a clause or distinct member of the sentence. “It is well ascertained, that the figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid.” What is well ascertained? NWAD IT.5
The answer will show: the figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid; it [that] is well ascertained. Here it represents the clause of the sentence,”the figure of the earth,” etc. If the order of the sentence is inverted, the use of it is superseded. The figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid; that is well ascertained. NWAD IT.6
It, like that, is often a substitute for a sentence or clause of a sentence. NWAD IT.7
4. It often begins a sentence, when a personal pronoun, or the name of a person, or a masculine noun follows. It is I: be not afraid. It was Judas who betrayed Christ. When a question is asked, it follows the verb; as, who was it that betrayed Christ? NWAD IT.8
5. It is used also for the state of a person or affair. NWAD IT.9
How is it with our general? NWAD IT.10
6. It is used after intransitive verbs very indefinitely and sometimes ludicrously, but rarely in an elevated style. NWAD IT.11
If Abraham brought all with him, it is not probable he meant to walk it back for his pleasure. NWAD IT.12
The Lacedemonians, at the straits of Thermopylae, when their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth. NWAD IT.13
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it. NWAD IT.14
ITALIAN, a. Pertaining to Italy. NWAD ITALIAN.1
ITALIAN, n. A native of Italy. NWAD ITALIAN.2
1. The language used in Italy, or by the Italians. NWAD ITALIAN.3
ITALIANATE, v.t. To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs. NWAD ITALIANATE.1
ITALIANIZE, v.i. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. NWAD ITALIANIZE.1
ITALIC, a. Relating to Italy or its characters. NWAD ITALIC.1
ITALICIZE, v.t. To write or print in Italic characters. NWAD ITALICIZE.1
ITALICS, n. plu. Italic letters or characters; characters first used in Italy, and which stand inclining; the letters in which this clause is printed. They are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. NWAD ITALICS.1
ITCH, n. NWAD ITCH.1
1. A cutaneous disease of the human race, appearing in small watery pustules on the skin, accompanied with an uneasiness or irritation that inclines the patient to use friction. This disease is supposed by some authors to be occasioned by a small insect, a species of Acarus, as the microscope detects these insects in the vesicles. Others suppose the pustules only form a nidus for the insects. This disease is taken only by contact or contagion. NWAD ITCH.2
2. The sensation in the skin occasioned by the disease. NWAD ITCH.3
3. A constant teasing desire; as an itch for praise; an itch for scribbling. NWAD ITCH.4
ITCH, v.i. NWAD ITCH.5
1. To feel a particular uneasiness in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part. NWAD ITCH.6
2. To have a constant desire or teasing inclination; as itching ears. 2 Timothy 4:3. NWAD ITCH.7
ITCHING, ppr. Having a sensation that calls for scratching. NWAD ITCHING.1
1. Having a constant desire. NWAD ITCHING.2
ITCHY, a. Infected with the itch. NWAD ITCHY.1
ITEM, adv. [L. item, also.] Also; a word used when something is to be added. NWAD ITEM.1
ITEM, n. An article; a separate particular in an account. The account consists of many items. NWAD ITEM.2
1. A hint; an innuendo. NWAD ITEM.3
ITEM, v.t. To make a note or memorandum of. NWAD ITEM.4
ITERABLE, a. That may be repeated. [Not used.] NWAD ITERABLE.1
ITERANT, a. [See Iterate.] Repeating; as an iterant echo. NWAD ITERANT.1
ITERATE, v.t. [L. itero, to repeat, from iter, a going.] NWAD ITERATE.1
To repeat; to utter or do a second time; as, to iterate advice or admonition; to iterate a trepass. NWAD ITERATE.2
ITERATED, pp. Repeated. NWAD ITERATED.1
ITERATING, ppr. Repeating; uttering or doing over again. NWAD ITERATING.1
ITERATION, n. [L. iteratio.] Repetition; recital or performance a second time. NWAD ITERATION.1
ITERATIVE, a. Repeating. NWAD ITERATIVE.1
ITINERANT, a. [L. iter, a way or journey.] Passing or traveling about a country; wandering; not settled; as an itinerant preacher. NWAD ITINERANT.1
ITINERANT, n. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. NWAD ITINERANT.2
ITINERARY, n. [Low L. itinerarium, from iter, a going.] NWAD ITINERARY.1
An account of travels or of the distances of places; as the itinerary of Antoninus. NWAD ITINERARY.2
ITINERARY, a. Traveling; passing from place to place, or done on a journey. NWAD ITINERARY.3
ITINERATE, v.i. [L. iter, a going; Low L. itinero.] NWAD ITINERATE.1
To travel from place to place, particularly for the purpose of preaching; to wander without a settled habitation. NWAD ITINERATE.2
ITSELF, pron. [it and self.] The neutral reciprocal pronoun, or substitute applied to things. The thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. NWAD ITSELF.1
Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. NWAD ITSELF.2
ITTRIUM, n. The undecomposable base of yttria; but better written yttrium, unless yttria should be written ittria. NWAD ITTRIUM.1
IVORY, n. [L. ebur.] The tusk of an elephant, a hard, solid substance, of a fine white color. This tooth is sometimes six or seven feet in length, hollow from the base to a certain highth, and filled with a compact medullary substance, seeming to contain a great number of glands. The ivory of Ceylon and Achem does not become yellow in wearing, and hence is preferred to that of Guinea. NWAD IVORY.1
IVORY, a. Consisting of ivory; as an ivory comb. NWAD IVORY.2
IVORY-BLACK, n. A fine kind of soft blacking. NWAD IVORY-BLACK.1
IVY, n. A parasitic plant of the genus Hedera, which creeps along the ground, or if it finds support, rises on trees or buildings, climbing to a great highth. NWAD IVY.1
IVYED, a. Overgrown with ivy. NWAD IVYED.1