Italicize (v. t. & i.) To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.
Ita palm () 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.
Itched (imp. & p. p.) of Itch
Itching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Itch
Itch (v. i.) To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
Itch (v. i.) To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
Itch (n.) 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.
Itch (n.) Any itching eruption.
Itch (n.) A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
Itch (n.) A constant irritating desire.
Itchiness (n.) The state of being itchy.
Itchless (a.) Free from itching.
Itchy (a.) Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation.
-ite () A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.
-ite () A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing.
-ite () A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, etc.
Item (adv.) Also; as an additional article.
Item (n.) An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill.
Item (n.) A hint; an innuendo.
Item (n.) A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
Itemed (imp. & p. p.) of Item
Iteming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Item
Item (v. t.) To make a note or memorandum of.
Itemize (v. t.) To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad.
Iter (n.) A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.
Iterable (a.) Capable of being iterated or repeated.
Iterance (n.) Iteration.
Iterant (a.) Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo.
Iterate (a.) Uttered or done again; repeated.
Iterated (imp. & p. p.) of Iterate
Iterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Iterate
Iterate (v. t.) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
Iterate (adv.) By way of iteration.
Iteration (n.) Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
Iterative (a.) Repeating.
Ithyphallic (a.) Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.
Itineracy (n.) The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.
Itinerancy (n.) A passing from place to place.
Itinerancy (n.) A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty.
Itinerant (a.) Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
Itinerant (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.
Itinerantly (adv.) In an itinerant manner.
Itinerary (a.) Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.
Itineraries (pl. ) of Itinerary
Itinerary (a.) An account of travels, or a register of places and distances as a guide to travelers; as, the Itinerary of Antoninus.
Itinerated (imp. & p. p.) of Itinerate
Itinerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Itinerate
Itinerate (v. i.) To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.
-itis () A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis.
Its () Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It.
Itself (pron.) The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself.
Ittria (n.) See Yttria.
Ittrium (n.) See Yttrium.
Itzibu (n.) A silver coin of Japan, worth about thirty-four cents.
Iulidan (n.) One of the Iulidae, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.
Iulus (n.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.
Ivan Ivanovitch () An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.
I've () Colloquial contraction of I have.
-ive () An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.
Ivied (a.) Overgrown with ivy.
Ivoride (n.) A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.
Ivories (pl. ) of Ivory
Ivory (n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
Ivory (n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
Ivory (n.) Any carving executed in ivory.
Ivory (n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.
Ivorytype (n.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype.
Ivies (pl. ) of Ivy
Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.
Iwis (adv.) Indeed; truly. See Ywis.
Ixia (n.) A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.
Ixodes (n.) A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.
Ixodian (n.) A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidae.
Ixtle (n.) Alt. of Ixtli
Ixtli (n.) A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber.
Izard (n.) A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.
-ize () A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.
Izedi (n.) One of an Oriental religious sect which worships Satan or the Devil.
Izedism (n.) The religion of the Izedis.
Izzard (n.) See Izard.
Izzard (n.) The letter z; -- formerly so called.