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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: iciness - i.d. bracelet</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="iciness"> iciness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being icy; extreme coldness. Ex. (Figurative.) The iciness of his tone made everyone think he was unfriendly. </DL> <A NAME="icing"> icing, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mixture of sugar and some liquid, with white of egg or other ingredients, used to cover cakes; frosting. </DL> <A NAME="icionparlefrancais"> ici on parle francais,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) French is spoken here. </DL> <A NAME="icker"> icker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) an ear of corn. </DL> <A NAME="icky"> icky, adjective, ickier, ickiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD> 1. unpleasantly sticky; messy. <DD> 2. unpleasant; obnoxious. Ex. icky grownups who have long conversations ... about free will, duty, and syllogisms (Harper's). <DD> 3. (Figurative.) oversentimental; cloying. Ex. icky lyrics. adv. ickily. noun ickiness. </DL> <A NAME="ickypoo"> icky-poo, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) icky. </DL> <A NAME="icn"> ICN (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> International Council of Nurses. </DL> <A NAME="icon"> icon, noun, pl. icons, icones.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a picture or image of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint, venerated as sacred in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Icons are usually painted on wood or ivory. <DD> 2. a picture; image; figure; statue. <DD> 3. a picture or drawing representing a command to a computer, as for example the picture of a garbage can representing the command to erase a file. Ex. When the user inserts a program disk into the computer, [there] appears on the computer's display screen ... an icon, or sketch, of each program on the disk (Howard Bierman). <DD> Also, ikon, eikon. </DL> <A NAME="iconic"> iconic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with an icon; like an icon. <DD> 2. following a conventional style in art. adv. iconically. </DL> <A NAME="iconical"> iconical, adjective. =iconic.</DL> <A NAME="iconize"> iconize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make an idol of; venerate uncritically. Ex. In the land of his birth Lenin has been iconized and transmogrified into a sugary shibboleth (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="iconoclasm"> iconoclasm, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the attacking of cherished beliefs or traditional institutions regarded as based on error or superstition. <DD> 2. the doctrine or act of breaking or destroying images. </DL> <A NAME="iconoclast"> iconoclast, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions which he thinks are wrong or foolish. Ex. I have become a reformer, and, like all reformers, an iconoclast ... I shatter creeds and demolish idols (George Bernard Shaw). <DD> 2. a person opposed to worshiping images or who breaks or destroys them. <DD> 3a. a Protestant who practiced or approved of the destruction of church images in the 1500's and 1600's, especially a Protestant in the Netherlands. <DD> b. one of a sect in the Greek Orthodox Church of the 700's and 800's opposed to the use and worship of images. </DL> <A NAME="iconoclastic"> iconoclastic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with iconoclasts or iconoclasm. Ex. Even the most iconoclastic young scholar hesitates to say anything unfavorable about a large foundation (New Yorker). adv. iconoclastically. </DL> <A NAME="iconograph"> iconograph, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a drawing, engraving, or other picture for illustrating a book or other publication. </DL> <A NAME="iconographic"> iconographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of iconography having to do with symbolic representation. Ex. Let me give an example of iconographic triumph and disaster from one painter in one place: Titian in Venice (Harper's). adv. iconographically. </DL> <A NAME="iconographical"> iconographical, adjective. =iconographic.</DL> <A NAME="iconography"> iconography, noun, pl. -phies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the illustration of a subject by means of drawings or figures. <DD> 2. a book or work in which this is done. <DD> 3. the art of representing persons ideas, or objects by pictures, images, or the like. Ex. In Christian iconography, the dove represents the Holy Ghost (New Yorker). noun iconographer. </DL> <A NAME="iconolatry"> iconolatry, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the worship of images. </DL> <A NAME="iconological"> iconological, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with iconology. </DL> <A NAME="iconology"> iconology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the branch of knowledge concerned with pictorial or sculptural representations. <DD> 2. icons collectively. <DD> 3. symbolical representation; symbolism. noun iconologist. </DL> <A NAME="iconophile"> iconophile, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lover or connoisseur of pictures, engravings, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="iconophilism"> iconophilism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a liking for pictures, engravings, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="iconoscope"> iconoscope, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an early kind of cathode-ray tube used in television cameras, which made television transmission possible. It consists of a vacuum tube enclosing a photosensitive screen on which the optical image is focused for scanning by a cathode-ray beam. </DL> <A NAME="iconostasis"> iconostasis, noun, pl. -ses.<DL COMPACT><DD> a screen or partition in the Eastern Orthodox Church on which icons are placed, separating the sanctuary from the main part of the church. </DL> <A NAME="icosahedral"> icosahedral, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having twenty faces. adv. icosahedrally. </DL> <A NAME="icosahedron"> icosahedron, noun, pl. -drons, -dra.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) a solid having twenty faces. </DL> <A NAME="icrc"> ICRC (no periods) or I.C.R.C.,<DL COMPACT><DD> International Committee of the Red Cross. </DL> <A NAME="ics"> -ics,<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) <DD> 1. a body of facts or principles; a system of thought; a science or field of study, as in optics, aesthetics, metaphysics, genetics. <DD> 2. a system or a method of action; art or practice, as in tactics, gymnastics, geodetics, ceramics. </DL> <A NAME="ics"> I.C.S.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (British.) Indian Civil Service. <DD> 2. (U.S.) International Correspondence School. </DL> <A NAME="icsh"> ICSH (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> interstitial cell stimulating hormone. </DL> <A NAME="icsu"> ICSU (no periods) or I.C.S.U.,<DL COMPACT><DD> International Council of Scientific Unions. </DL> <A NAME="icsw"> ICSW (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> International Council of Social Welfare. </DL> <A NAME="icteric"> icteric, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a remedy for jaundice. <DD> 2. a person affected with jaundice. <DD>adj. 1. having to do with or affected with jaundice; jaundiced. Ex. The liver was enlarged and icteric and showed typical changes of mechanical jaundice (Beaumont and Dodds). <DD> 2. used for curing jaundice. </DL> <A NAME="icterid"> icterid, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with a large group of American passerine birds, having sharp cone-shaped bills. <DD>noun an icterid bird. </DL> <A NAME="icterine"> icterine, noun, or icterine warbler,<DL COMPACT><DD> a European warbler with an olive back and lemon-colored breast. </DL> <A NAME="icterus"> icterus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =jaundice. <DD> 2. a yellowing of grain and certain other plants when exposed to excess moisture and cold. </DL> <A NAME="ictus"> ictus, noun, pl. -tuses or -tus.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Prosody.) rhythmical or metrical stress or accent. <DD> 2. (Medicine.) a fit; stroke. </DL> <A NAME="icy"> icy, adjective, icier, iciest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. like ice; very cold or slippery. Ex. the icy blasts of winter wind. (SYN) frosty, frigid. <DD> 2. having much ice; covered with ice. Ex. an icy sidewalk. <DD> 3. of ice. Ex. an icy cover on the frozen pond. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) without warm feeling; cold and unfriendly. Ex. an icy tone of voice. </DL> <A NAME="id"> id, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychoanalysis.) the source of energy of the unconscious, associated with primitive, instinctual drives for pleasure and gratification. The name was invented by Sigmund Freud. Ex. The ego ... has the difficult assignment of forcing back the id's uncivilized urges or of disguising them in such a way as to make them socially acceptable (Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr.). </DL> <A NAME="id"> I'd,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. I should. <DD> 2. I would. <DD> 3. I had. </DL> <A NAME="id"> -id (1),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) <DD> 1. structure; body, as in capsid, plasmid. <DD> 2. (one) belonging to a group, as in ichneumonid. </DL> <A NAME="id"> -id (2),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) a variant of -ide. </DL> <A NAME="id"> id.,<DL COMPACT><DD> idem. </DL> <A NAME="id"> I.D.,<DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD> 1. identification. Ex. Owners of rifles and shotguns must be 18, and need only the basic I.D. (Time). <DD> 2. (British.) Intelligence Department. <DD> 3. (U.S.) Intelligence Division (of the U.S. Army). </DL> <A NAME="ida"> Ida.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Idaho. </DL> <A NAME="ida"> IDA (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> International Development Association (an agency to provide low-cost loans to underdeveloped countries). </DL> <A NAME="idahoan"> Idahoan, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a native or inhabitant of Idaho. <DD>adj. of or having to do with Idaho. </DL> <A NAME="idb"> IDB (no periods) or I.D.B.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (in South Africa) illicit diamond buyer. <DD> 2. Inter-American Development Bank. </DL> <A NAME="idbracelet"> I.D. bracelet,<DL COMPACT><DD> a bracelet marked with a person's identification. Ex. She was wearing ... an I.D. bracelet I gave her last January for her sixteenth birthday--with her name on one side and mine on the other (Truman Capote). </DL> <A HREF="idcard.dic">NEXT</A>