IS, verb intransitive iz. [Latin est.] The third person singular of the substantive verb, which is composed of three or four distinct roots, which appear in the words am, be, are, and is is and was coincide with the Latin esse, and Goth.wesan. In the indicative, present tense, it is thus varied; I am, thou art, he, she, or it, is; we, ye or you, they, are. In writing and speaking, the vowel is often dropped; as, he's gone; there's none left.
IS'ABEL, noun isabel yellow is a brownish yellow, with a shade of brownish red.
ISAGOG'IC'ICAL, adjective Introductory.
IS'AGON, noun [Gr. equal, and an angle.] A figure whose angles are equal.
IS'ATIS, noun In zoology, the arctic fox or Canis lagopus.
ISCHIAD'IC, adjective [Latin ischiadicus, from ischias, the sciatica, from ischium, the hip.] Pertaining to the hip. The ischiadic passion or disease is ranked by Cullen with rheumatism. It is a rheumatic affection of the hip joint. It is called also sciatica. It is sometimes seated in the tendinous expansion which covers the muscles of the thigh, but its most common seat is in the muscles, or in the capsular ligament, and it is then either rheumatic or gouty.
ISCHURET'IC, adjective [See Ischury.]
Having the quality of relieving ischury.
ISCHURET'IC, noun A medicine adapted to relieve ischury.
IS'CHURY, noun [Gr. to stop, and urine.]
A stoppage or suppression of urine.
IS'ERIN
IS'ERINE, noun A mineral of an iron black color, and of a splendent metallic luster, occurring in small obtuse angular grains. It is harder than feldspar, and consists of the oxyds of iron and titanium, with a small portion of uranium.
IS'ERINE, n. A mineral of an iron black color, and of a splendent metallic luster, occurring in small obtuse angular grains. It is harder than feldspar, and consists of the oxyds of iron and titanium, with a small portion of uranium.
ISH, a termination of English words, is, in Sax. isc. Dan.isk, G. isch; and not improbably, it is the termination esque, in French, as in grotesque, It.esco, in grotesco, and the Latin termination of the inceptive verb, as in fervesco. Annexed to English adjectives, ish denotes diminutive, or a small degree of the quality; as whitish, from white; yellowish, from yellow.
ISH annexed to names forms a possessive adjective; as in Swedish, Danish, English.
ISH annexed to common nouns forms an adjective denoting a participation of the qualities expressed by the noun; as foolish, from fool; roguish, from rogue; brutish, from brute. This is the more common use of this termination.
I'SICLE, a pendant shoot of ice, is more generally written icicle. [See Ice and Icicle.]
I'SINGLASS, noun i'zinglass. [that is, ise or ice-glass.]
A substance consisting chiefly of gelatin, of a firm texture and whitish color, prepared from the sounds or air-bladders of certain fresh water fishes, particularly of the huso, a fish of the sturgeon kind, found in the rivers of Russia. It is used as an agglutinant and in fining wines.
IS'LAMISM, noun The true faith, according to the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism.
ISLAND, noun i'land. [This is an absurd compound of isle and land, that is, land-in-water land, or ieland-land. There is no such legitimate word in English, and it is found only in books. The genuine word always used in discourse is our native word, Sax.ealong, D.G. eiland.]
1. A tract of land surrounded by water.
2. A large mass of floating ice, is called an island of ice.
I'SLANDER, noun i'lander. An inhabitant of an ieland.
ISLE
ILE, noun ile. [Latin insula.]
1. A tract of land surrounded by water, or a detached portion of land embosomed in the ocean, in a lake or river.
The isles shall wait for his law. Isaiah 42:4.
2. A passage in a church. [See Aisle.]
ISLET, noun i'let. A little ieland.
ISOCH'RONAL
ISOCH'RONOUS, adjective [Gr. equal, and time.] Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times.
An isochronal line, is that in which a heavy body is supposed to descend without acceleration.
Isochronal vibrations of a pendulum are such as are performed in the same space of time.
ISOCH'RONOUS, a. [Gr. equal, and time.] Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times.
An isochronal line, is that in which a heavy body is supposed to descend without acceleration.
Isochronal vibrations of a pendulum are such as are performed in the same space of time.
IS'OLATE, verb transitive To place in a detached situation; to place by itself; to insulate.
IS'OLATED, participle passive or adjective Standing detached from others of a like kind; placed by itself or alone.
IS'OLATING, participle present tense Placing by itself or detached like an isle.
ISOMORPH'ISM, noun [Gr. like, and form.] The quality of a substance by which it is capable of replacing another in a compound, without an alteration of its primitive form.
ISOMORPH'OUS, adjective Capable of retaining its primitive form in a compound.
IS'ONOMY, noun [Gr. equal, and law.]
Equal law; equal distribution of rights and privileges.
ISOPERIMET'RICAL, adjective [See Isoperimetry.]
Having equal boundaries; as isoperimetrical figures or bodies.
ISOPERIM'ETRY, noun [Gr. equal, around, and measure.]
In geometry, the science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.
ISOS'CELES, adjective [Gr. equal, and leg.] Having two legs only that are equal; as an isosceles triangle.
ISOTHERM'AL, adjective [Gr. equal, proper, and heat.] Having an equal degree of heat, or a like temperature.
ISOTON'IC, adjective [Gr. equal, and tone.] Having equal tones. The isotonic system, in music, consists of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.
IS'RAELITE, noun A descendant of Israel or Jacob; a Jew.
ISRAELIT'IC
ISRAELI'TISH, adjective Pertaining to Israel.
ISRAELI'TISH, a. Pertaining to Israel.
IS'SUABLE, adjective [from issue.] That may be issued. In law, an issuable term, is one in which issues are made up.
ISSUE, noun ish'u.
1. The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out of any inclosed place; egress; applied to water or other fluid, to smoke, to a body of men, etc. We say, an issue of water from a pipe, from a spring, or from a river; an issue of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows; an issue of people from a door or house.
2. A sending out; as the issue of an order from a commanding officer or from a court; the issue of money from a treasury.
3. Event; consequence; end or ultimate result. Our present condition will be best for us in the issue
4. Passage out; outlet.
To God the Lord belong the issues from death. Psalms 68:20.
5. Progeny; a child or children; offspring; as, he had issue a son; and we speak of issue of the whole blood or half blood. A man dies without issue
6. Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements or other property. A conveyed to B all his right to a term for years, with all the issues, rents and profits.
7. In surgery, a fontanel; a little ulcer made in some part of an animal body, to promote discharges.
8. Evacuation; discharge; a flux or running. Leviticus 12:7. Matthew 9:20.
9. In law, the close or result of pleadings; the point of matter depending in suit, on which the parties join, and put the case to trial by a jury.
10. A giving out from a repository; delivery; as an issue of rations or provisions from a store, or of powder from a magazine.
IS'SUE, verb intransitive
1. To pass or flow out; to run out of any inclosed place; to proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; blood issues from wounds; sap or gum issues from trees; light issues from the sun.
2. To go out; to rush out. Troops issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
3. To proceed, as progeny; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee--2 Kings 20:18.
4. To proceed; to be produced; to arise; to grow or accrue; as rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
5. In legal pleadings, to come to a point in fact of law, on which the parties join and rest the decision of the cause. Our lawyers say, a cause issues to the court or to the jury; it issues in demurrer.
6. To close; to end. We know not how the cause will issue
IS'SUE, verb transitive To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue money from a treasury, or notes from a bank.
1. To send out; to deliver from authority; as, to issue an order from the department of war; to issue a writ or precept.
2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions from a store.
IS'SUED, participle passive Descended; sent out.
IS'SUELESS, adjective Having no issue or progeny; wanting children.
IS'SUING, participle present tense Flowing or passing out; proceeding from, sending out.
IS'SUING, noun A flowing or passing out.
1. Emission; a sending out, as of bills or notes.
ISTHMUS, noun ist'mus. [Latin] A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland. Such is the Neck, so called, which connects Boston with the main land at Roxbury. But the word is applied to land of considerable extent, between seas; as the isthmus of Darien, which connects North and South America, and the isthmus between the Euxine and Caspian seas.