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Ice-built () Loaded with ice.
Iced () Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.
Iced () Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake.
Icefall () A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.
Icelander () A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
Icelandic () Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
Icelandic () 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.
Iceland moss () 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.
Iceland spar () 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.
Icemen () of Iceman
Iceman () A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
Iceman () One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.
Ice plant () 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.
Icequake () The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
Ich () I.
Ichneumon () Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
Ichneumon () Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.
Ichneumonidan () Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidae, or ichneumon flies.
Ichneumonidan () One of the Ichneumonidae.
Ichneumonides () The ichneumon flies.
Ichnite () A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone.
Ichnographic () Alt. of Ichnographical
Ichnographical () Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.
Ichnography () A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.
Ichnolite () A fossil footprint; an ichnite.
Ichnolithology () Same as Ichnology.
Ichnological () Of or pertaining to ichnology.
Ichnology () The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.
Ichnoscopy () The search for the traces of anything.
Ichor () An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.
Ichor () A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.
Ichorhaemia () Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.
Ichorous () Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.
Ichthidin () A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.
Ichthin () A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.
Ichthulin () A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.
Ichthus () In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words /, /, / /, /, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior.
Ichthyic () Like, or pertaining to, fishes.
Ichthyocol () Alt. of Ichthyocolla
Ichthyocolla () Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.
Ichthyocoprolite () Fossil dung of fishes.
Ichthyodorulite () One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.
Ichthyography () A treatise on fishes.
Ichthyoid () Alt. of Ichthyoidal
Ichthyoidal () Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.
Ichthyolatry () Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols.
Ichthyolite () A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.
Ichthyologic () Alt. of Ichthyological
Ichthyological () Of or pertaining to ichthyology.
Ichthyologist () One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.
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