Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IG'NO-RANT-LY, adv.

1. Without knowledge, instruction or information. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare to you. Acts xrik.
2. Unskillfully; inexpertly. A man may mistake blunders for beauties, and ignorantly admire them.

IGNORE, v.t.

To be ignorant. [Not in use.] Bork.

IG-NOS'CI-BLE, a. [L. ignoscibilis.]

Pardonable. [Not used.]

IG-NOTE, a. [L. ignotus.]

Unknown. [Not used.]

IG-UANA, n.

1. A genus of saurian reptiles.
2. The Iguana tuberculate, the common Iguariaof South America, whose flesh is eaten and esteemed delicious.

IG-UA'NO-DON, n.

An extinct saurian reptile. The sail remains of this animal found in Tilgate forest, and at Maid- stone in England, indicate the animal to be sixty, seventy or more feet in length. Mantell.

ILE, n.

1. so written by Pope for aile, a walk or alley in a church or public building. [Not in use.]
2. An ear of corn. [Not used.]

ILE-US, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

1. The technical specific name of common colic, both in ancient and modern times.
2. Intestinal intussusception, from the hypothesis that this stato always exists in common colic.

ILEX, [L.]

In botany, the generic name of the Hollytree. Also, the Quercus ilex, or great scarlet oak.

ILI-AC, a. [L. Shwas, from ilia, the flank, or small intse tines; Gr. now, to wind.]

Pertaining to the lower bowels, or to the ileum. The Au passion ts a bad form of ileus or common colic, in which. there is inversion of the peristaltic action of the upper 1,04 of the small intestines.

IL'I-AD, n. [from Ilium, Ilion, Troy.]

An epic poem, composed, by Homer, in twenty-four books. The subject of this poem is the wrath of Achilles; in describing which, the poet exhibits the miserable effects of disunion and public dissensions. Hence the phrase, Ilias maloram, an iliad of woes or calamities, a world of disasters.

ILK, a.

The same; each. This is retained in Scottish. from the Saxon tic, each.

ILL,

prefixed to participles of the present tense, and denoting evil or wrong, may be considered as a noun governed by the participle, or as making a part of a compound word as, an ill meaning man, an ill designing man, an ill boding hour; that is, a man meaning ill, an hour boding ill. It fa more consonant, however, to the genius of our language, to treat these and similar words as compounds. In some cases as before the participles of intransitive verbs, must be considered as a part of the compound, as in ill-looking When used before the perfect participle, ill is to be considered as an adverb, or modifying word, or to be treated as s part of the compound; as in ill-bred, ill-governed, ill-fated ill-favored, ill-formed, ill-minded. In these and all similar connections, it might be well to unite the two words in compound by a hyphen. As ill may be prefixed to almost any participle, it is needless to attempt to collect a list o such words for insertion. Ill, prefixed to words beginning with 1, stands for in, as use, in the Latin language, and usually denotes a negation o the sense of the simple word, as illegal, not legal; or it denotes to or on, and merely augments or enforces the sense as in illuminate.

ILL, a. [supposed to be contracted from evil, Sax. girl this is doubtful. It is in Swedish, ills, and Dan. ade.]

1. Bad or evil, in a general sense; contrary to good, physical or moral; applied to things; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitous; as, his ways are ill; he sets an ill example.
2. Producing evil or misfortune; as, an ill star or planet.
3. Bail; evil unfortunate; as, an ill end; an ill fate.
4. Unhealthy; insalubrious; as, an ill air or climate.
5. Cross; crabbed; surly; peevish; as, nature; ill temper. 6 Diseased; disordered; sick or indisposed; applied to persons; as, the man is ill; he has been ill a long time; he is ill of a fever.
6. Diseased impaired; as, an ill state of health.
7. Discordant; harsh; disagreeable; as, an ill sound.
8. Homely; ugly; as, ill looks, or an ill countenance.
9. Unfavorable; suspicious; as when we say, this affair bears an ill look or aspect.
10. Rude; unpolished; as, ill breeding, ill manners.
11. Not in proper; not regular or legitimate; as, an ill express grammar.

ILL, adv.

1. Not well; not rightly or perfectly. He is ill at ease.
2. Not easily; with pain or difficulty. He is ill able to sustain the burden. Ill bears the sex the youthful lovers' fate, When just approaching to the nuptial state. Dryden

ILL, n.

1. Wickedness; depravity; evil. Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, Exerts itself and then throws off the ill. Dryden.
2. Misfortune; calamity; evil; disease; pain; whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success. Who can all sense of other's escape, Is but a brute at best in human shape. Tate,

ILLAB'ILE, a. [See Labile.]

Not liable to fall or err; in fallible. [Not used.] Cheyni

IL-LA-BILITY, n.

The quality of not being liable to err, fall or apostatize. [Not used.] Cheri. ILLAC'ER-A-BLE, a. [See Lacerate.] That can not be torn or rent.

IL-LAC'RY-MA-BLE, a. [L.]

Incapable of weeping.

IL-LAPSE, n. illaps'. [See Lapse.]

1. A sliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another. Norris.
2. A falling on; a sudden attack. Thomson.

IL-LAQ'UE-ATE, v.t. [L. illaquco; in and lague, to insnare; a snare.]

To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch. [Little used] More.

IL-LAQ'UE-A-TED, pp.

Insnared.

IL-LAQ-UE-A'TION, a.

1. The act of insnaring; a catching or entrapping. [Little used.] Brown.
2. A snare.

ILL-AR-RANG-ED, a.

Not well arranged.

ILL-AS-SORTED, a.

Not well assorted.