Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ICE-LAND'IC, a.

Pertaining to Iceland; and as noun, the language of the Icelanders. Iceland spar, calcarious spar, in laminated masses, easily divisible into rhombs, perfectly similar to the primitive rhomb. Cleaveland.

ICE-LAND-MOSS, n.

A common lichen found in mountainous districts of Europe. It is a tonic and nutritive.

ICE-PLAIN, a.

A plain of ice. Coleridge

ICE'PLANT, n.

A plant of the genus Mesembryanthentum, sprinkled with pellucid, glittering watery vesicles. Encyc.

ICE'SPAR, n.

A variety of feldspar, the crystals of which resemble ice. Jameson.

ICH-NEU'MON, n. [L. from the Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, to follow the steps, {}, a footstep; a follower of the crocodile.]

An animal of the genus Viverra, or Mangusta. Its body is dotted equally all over; dirty yellow and slate color, each hair being annulated alternately with these tints; paws and muzzle black; tail long and terminated by a diverging tuft. Inhabits Egypt. It feeds on the eggs of the crocodile, mice, and all sorts of small animals. It is domesticated. Its native name is Nems. Ichneumon-fly, a genus of flies, of the order of hymenopteras containing several thousand species. The abdomen is generally petiolated, or joined to the body by a pedicle. These animals are great destroyers of caterpillars, plant-lice and other insects, as the ichneumon is of the eggs and young the crocodile. Encyc.

ICH-NEU-MON'I-LIAN, a.

Relating to the ichneumonidas, a family of predacions insects.

ICH-NO-GRAPH'IC, or ICH-NO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a. [See Ichnography.]

Pertaining to ichnography; describing a ground-plot.

ICH-NOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a footstep, and {}, to describe.]

In perspective, the view of any thing cut off by a plane parallel to the horizon, just at the base of it; a ground-plot. Encyc.

I'CHOR, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

1. A thin watery humor, like serum or whey.
2. Colorless matter flowing from an ulcer.

I'CHOR-OUS, a.

Like ichor; thin; watery; serous.

ICH'THY-O-COL, or ICH-THY-O-COL'LA, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a fish, and {foreign}, glue.]

Fish-glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of fish. Tooke

ICH-THY-OG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. {} and {}.]

A treatise on fishes.

ICH'THY-O-LITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a fish, and {}, a stone.]

Fossil fish; or the figure or impression of a fish in rock. Hitchcock.

ICH-THY-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to ichthyology.

ICH-THY-OL'O-GIST, n. [See Ichthyology.]

One verses in ichthyology.

ICH-THY-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {}, a fish, and {foreign}, discourse.]

The science of fishes, or that part of zoology which treats of fishes, their structure, form and classification, their habits, uses, &c. Encyc. Edin. Encyc.

ICH-THY-OM'AN-CY, n.

Divination by the heads of fishes.

ICH-THY-OPH'A-GIST, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a fish, and {}, to eat.]

One who eats or subsists on fish.

ICH-THY-OPH'A-GOUS, a. [Gr. {foreign}, fish, and {}; to eat.]

Eating or subsisting on fish. D'Anville.

ICH-THY-OPH'A-GY, n. [supra.]

The practice of eating fish.

ICH-THY-OPH-THAL'MITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a fish, and {foreign}, an eye.]

Fish-eye-stone. [See Apophyllite.]

ICH-THY-O-SAUR'US, n. [Gr. {}, a fish, and {}, a lizard.]

The fish-lizard, an extinct marine animal whose fossil remains are found in England, and other countries. Buckland.

ICH-THY-O'SIS, a. [Gr.]

A roughness of the skin, which becomes thick, hard and scaly.

I'CI-CLE, n. [Sax. ises-gecel, D. yskegel, ice-cone. Kegel is a cone or nine-pin.]

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 north of England, it is called ickle.