Ilmenite
(Il"men*ite) n. [So called from Ilmen, a branch of the Ural Mountains.] (Min.) Titanic iron.
See Menaccanite.
Ilmenium
(Il*me"ni*um) n. [NL. See Ilmenite.] (Chem.) A supposed element claimed to have been
discovered by R.Harmann.
Ilvaite
(Il"va*ite) n. [From L. Ilva, the island now called Elba.] (Min.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring
in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.
I'm
(I'm) A contraction of I am.
Im-
(Im-) A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some
words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter.
Image
(Im"age) n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf.
Imagine.]
1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted,
or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a
semblance.
Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
Shak.
Whose is this image and superscription?
Matt. xxii. 20.
This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.
Shak.
And God created man in his own image.
Gen. i. 27. 2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. Chaucer.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.
Ex.
xx. 4, 5. 3. Show; appearance; cast.
The face of things a frightful image bears.
Dryden. 4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great?
Prior. 5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a
subject; usually, an extended metaphor. Brande & C.
6. (Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light
from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such
focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly
by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by
reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
Electrical image. See under Electrical. — Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
— Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor. — Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry
distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. — Image Purkinje (Physics), the image
of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. — Virtual image (Optics), a
