Ictic
(Ic"tic) a. [L. ictus blow.] Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. [R.] H. Bushnell.
Ictus
(||Ic"tus) n. [L., fr. icere, ictum, to strike.]
1. (Pros.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.
2. (Med.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
Icy
(I"cy) a. [Compar. Icier ; superl. Iciest.] [AS. isig. See Ice.]
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty. "Icy chains." Shak. "Icy region." Boyle. "Icy
seas." Pope.
2. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.
Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection.
Motley. Icy-pearled
(I"cy-pearl`ed) a. Spangled with ice.
Mounting up in icy-pearled car.
Milton. I'd
(I'd) A contraction from I would or I had.
Id
(Id) n. (Zoöl.) A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated
variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.
Idalian
(I*da"li*an) a. Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it
was sacred. "Idalian Aphrodité." Tennyson.
Ide
(Ide) n. (Zoöl.) Same as Id.
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ide
(-ide) (Chem.) A suffix used to denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a
binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide,
phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.
Idea
(I*de"a) n.; pl. Ideas [L. idea, Gr. fr. to see; akin to E. wit: cf. F. idée. See Wit.]
1. The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of
any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
Fairfax.
Being the right idea of your father
Both in your form and nobleness of mind.
Shak.
This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination,
and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.
P. Browne. 2. A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.
L. Caroll. 3. Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the
real object that is conceived or thought of.
Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding,
that I call idea.
Locke.
