Emily Dickinson Lexicon

I'RON-CLAD, a.

Clad in iron. Scott.

I'RON-CLAY, n.

A substance intermediate between basalt and wacke, of a reddish brown color, and occurring massive or vesicular. Cyc.

I'RON-ED, pp.

Smoothed with an iron; shackled; armed with iron.

I'RON-FIL-INGS, n. [plur.]

Fine particles of iron made by filing or rasping.

I'RON-FLINT, n.

Ferruginous quartz; a subspecies of quartz, opake or translucent at the edges, with a fracture more or less conchoidal, shining, and nearly vitreous. It is sometimes in very minute and perfect six-sided prisms, terminated at both extremities by six-sided pyramids. It occurs also in masses, and in small grains. Its varieties are red, yellow, and greenish. Cleaveland.

I'RON-FOUND-ER, n.

One who makes iron castings.

I'RON-FOUND-ER-Y, n.

The place where iron castings are made.

I'RON-FRAM-ED, a.

Having an iron or firm frame.

I'RON-HAND-ED, a.

Having hands hard as iron. Dwight.

I'RON-HEART-ED, a.

Hardhearted; unfeeling; cruel.

I-RON'IC-AL, a. [Fr. ironique. See Irony.]

Expressing one thing and meaning another. An ironical expression is often accompanied with a manner of utterance which indicates that the speaker intends to be understood in a sense directly contrary to that which the words convey.

I-RON'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By way of irony; by the use of irony. A commendation may be ironically severe.

I'RON-ING, ppr.

Smoothing with an iron; shackling.

I'RON-IST, n.

One who deals in irony. Pope.

I'RON-MOLD, n.

A spot on cloth made by applying rusty iron to the cloth when wet.

I'RON-MON-GER, n.

A dealer in iron wares or hardware.

I'RON-SHEATH-ED, a.

Sheathed with iron. Scott.

I'RON-SHOD, a.

Shod with iron.

I'RON-SICK, a.

In seaman's language, a ship is said to be ironsick, when her bolts and nails are so much corroded or eaten with rust that she has become leaky. Encyc.

I'RON-SID-ED, a.

Having iron sides, or very firm sides. Forby.

I'RON-SMITH, n.

A worker in iron; an artisan who makes and repairs utensils of iron – a much more proper term than blacksmith.

I'RON-STONE, n.

An ore of iron.

I'RON-WOOD, n.

The popular name of some species of a genus of trees called Sideroxylon; so called from their hardness. Also the popular name of Ostrya Virginica, sometimes called Hop-Hornbeam, a tree of the United States.

I'RON-WORK, n.

A general name of the parts or pieces of a building which consist of iron; any thing made of iron.

I'RON-WORKS, n. [plur.]

The works or establishment where pig-iron is wrought into bars, &c.