2. A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite,
from its use in writing.
3. (Chem.) A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as,
sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, etc.
Item
(I"tem) adv. [L. See Iterate.] Also; as an additional article.
Item
(I"tem) n. [From Item, adv.]
1. An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill.
2. A hint; an innuendo. [Obs.]
A secret item was given to some of the bishops . . . to absent themselves.
Fuller. 3. A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
Item
(I"tem), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Itemed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Iteming.] To make a note or memorandum
of.
I have itemed it in my memory.
Addison. Itemize
(I"tem*ize) v. t. To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad. [Local,
U. S.]
Iter
(||I"ter) n. [L. See Eyre.] (Anat.) A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles
in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.
Iterable
(It"er*a*ble) a. [L. iterabilis. See Iterate.] Capable of being iterated or repeated. [Obs.]
Iterance
(It"er*ance) n. Iteration. [Obs.]
Iterant
(It"er*ant) a. [L. iterans, p. pr. of iterare.] Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.
Iterate
(It"er*ate) a. [L. iteratus, p. p. of iterare to repeat, fr. iterum again, prop. a compar. from the
stem of is he, that; cf. L. ita so, item likewise, also, Skr. itara other, iti thus. Cf. Identity, Item.]
Uttered or done again; repeated. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.
Iterate
(It"er*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iterated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Iterating.] To utter or do a second
time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
Nor Eve to iterate
Her former trespass feared.
Milton. Iterate
(It"er*ate) adv. By way of iteration.
Iteration
(It`er*a"tion) n. [L. iteratio.] Recital or performance a second time; repetition. Bacon.
What needs this iteration, woman?
Shak. Iterative
(It"er*a*tive) a. [L. iterativus: cf. F. itératif.] Repeating. Cotgrave. — It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.
Ithyphallic
(Ith`y*phal"lic) a. [L. ithyphallicus, fr. ithyphallus, Gr. membrum virile erectum, or a figure
thereof carried in the festivals of Bacchus.] Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.
Itineracy
(I*tin"er*a*cy) n. The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.
