ICA'RIAN, adjective [from Icarus, the son of Daedalus, who fled on wings to escape the resentment of Minos, but his flight being too high was fatal to him, as the sun melted the wax that cemented his wings.]

Adventurous in flight; soaring too high for safety, like Icarus.

ICE, noun

1. Water or other fluid congealed, or in a solid state; a solid, transparent, brittle substance, formed by the congelation of a fluid, by means of the abstraction of the heat necessary to preserve its fluidity, or to use language, congealed by cold.

2. Concreted sugar.

To break the ice is to make the first opening to any attempt; to remove the first obstructions or difficulties; to open the way.

ICE, verb transitive To cover with ice; to convert into ice

1. To cover with concreted sugar; to frost.

2. To chill; to freeze.

ICEBERG, noun [ice and a hill.] A hill or mountain of ice, or a vast body of ice accumulated in valleys in high northern latitudes.

This term is applied to such elevated masses as exist in the valleys of the frigid zones; to those which are found on the surface of fixed ice; and to ice of great thickness and highth in a floating state. These lofty floating masses are sometimes detached from the icebergs on shore, and sometimes formed at a distance from any land. They are found in both the frigid zones, and are sometimes carried towards the equator as low as 40 degrees.

ICEBLINK, noun A name given by seamen to a bright appearance near the horizon, occasioned by the ice, and observed before the ice itself is seen.

ICEBOAT, noun A boat constructed for moving on ice.

ICEBOUND, adjective In seaman's language, totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing.

ICEBUILT, adjective Composed of ice.

1. Loaded with ice.

ICEHOUSE, noun [ice and house.] A repository for the preservation of ice during warm weather; a pit with a drain for conveying off the water of the ice when dissolved, and usually covered with a roof.

ICEISLE, noun iceile. [ice and isle.] A vast body of floating ice, such as is often seen in the Atlantic, off the banks of Newfoundland.

ICELANDER, noun A native of Iceland.

ICELAND'IC, adjective Pertaining to Iceland; and as a noun, the language of the Icelanders.

Iceland spar, calcarious spar, in laminated masses, easily divisible into rhombs, perfectly similar to the primitive rhomb.

ICEPLANT, noun A plant of the genus Mesembryanthemem, sprinkled with pellucid, glittering, icy pimples.

ICESPAR, noun A variety of feldspar, the crystals of which resemble ice.

ICHNEU'MON, noun [Latin from the Gr. to follow the steps, a footstep; a follower of the crocodile.]

An animal of the genus Viverra, or weasel kind. It has a tail tapering to a point, and its toes are distant from each other. It inhabits Egypt, Barbary and India. It destroys the most venomous serpents, and seeks the eggs of the crocodile, digging them out of the sand, eating them and destroying the young. In India and Egypt, this animal is domesticated and kept for destroying rats and mice.

Ichneumon-fly, a genus of flies, of the order of hymenopters, containing several hundred species. These animals have jaws, but no tongue; the antennae have more than thirty joints, and are kept in continual motion. The abdomen is generally petiolated, or joined to the body by a pedicle. These animals are great destroyers of caterpillars, plant-lice and other insects, as the ichneumon is of the eggs and young of the crocodile.

ICHNOGRAPH'IC

ICHNOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective [See Ichnography.] Pertaining to ichnography; describing a ground- plot.

ICHNOGRAPH'ICAL, a. [See Ichnography.] Pertaining to ichnography; describing a ground- plot.

ICHNOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a footstep, and to describe.] In perspective, the view of any thing cut off by a plane parallel to the horizon, just at the base of it, a ground-plot.

I'CHOR, noun [Gr.] A thin watery humor, like serum or whey.

1. Sanious matter flowing from an ulcer.

I'CHOROUS, adjective Like ichor; thin; water; serous.

1. Sanious.

ICH'THYOCOL

ICHTHYOCOL'LA, noun [Gr. a fish, and glue.] Fish-glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of fish.

ICH'THYOLITE, noun [Gr. a fish, and a stone.] Fossil fish; or the figure or impression of a fish in rock.

ICHTHYOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to ichthyology.

ICHTHYOL'OGIST, noun [See Ichthyology.] One versed in ichthyology.

ICHTHYOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a fish, and discourse.] The science of fishes, or that part of zoology which treats of fishes, their structure, form and classification, their habits, uses, etc.

ICHTHYOPH'AGOUS, adjective [Gr. fish, and to eat.] Eating or subsisting on fish.

ICHTHYOPH'AGY, noun [supra.] The practice of eating fish.

ICHTHYOPHTHAL'MITE, noun [Gr. a fish, and an eye.] Fish-eyestone. [See Apophyllite.]

I'CICLE, noun A pendent conical mass of ice, formed by the freezing of water or other fluid as it flows down an inclined plane, or collects in drops and is suspended. In the north of England, it is called ickle.

I'CINESS, noun The state of being icy, or of being very cold.

1. The state of generating ice.

I'CING, participle present tense Covering with concreted sugar.

I'CON, noun [Gr. an image, to resemble.] An image or representation. [Not in use.]

ICON'OCLAST, noun [Gr. an image, and a breaker, to break.] A breaker or destroyer of images; a name which Catholics give to those who reject the use of images in religious worship.

ICONOCLAS'TIC, adjective Breaking images.

ICONOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. an image, to describe.] The description of images or ancient statues, busts, semi-busts, paintings in fresco, mosaic works, and ancient pieces of miniature.

ICONOL'ATER, noun [Gr. an image, and a servant.] One that worships images; a name given to Romanists.

ICONOL'OGY, noun [Gr. an image, and a discourse.] The doctrine of images or representations.

ICOSAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. twenty, and seat, basis.] Having twenty equal sides.

ICOSAHE'DRON, noun [supra.] A solid of twenty equal sides.

In geometry, a regular solid, consisting of twenty triangular pyramids, whose vertices meet in the center of a sphere supposed to circumscribe it, and therefore have their highths and bases equal.

ICOSAN'DER, noun [Gr. twenty, and a male.] In botany, a plant having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

Note - A writer on botany has suggested that as the proper character of plants of this class is the insertion of the stamens in the calyx, it might be expedient to denominate the class, Calycandria.

ICOSAN'DRIAN, noun Pertaining to the class of plants, Icosandria, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

IC'TERIC

ICTER'ICAL, adjective [Latin ictericus, from icterus, jaundice.] Affected with the jaundice.

1. Good in the cure of the jaundice.

IC'TERIC, noun A remedy for the jaundice.

ICTER'ICAL, a. [L. ictericus, from icterus, jaundice.] Affected with the jaundice.

ICTERI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin icterus, jaundice.] Yellow; having the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

I'CY, adjective [from ice.] Abounding with ice; as the icy regions of the north.

1. Cold; frosty; as icy chains.

2. Made of ice.

3. Resembling ice; chilling.

Religion lays not an icy hand on the true joys of life.

4. Cold; frigid; destitute of affection or passion.

5. Indifferent; unaffected; backward.