<B>Italian corn salad,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of valerian with pink flowers, found in southern Europe and grown in North America as a potherb. </DL>
<A NAME="italiangreyhound">
<B>Italian greyhound,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any small dog of a breed resembling miniature greyhounds, weighing from 6 to 10 pounds. </DL>
<A NAME="italianism">
<B>Italianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an Italian practice, trait, or idiom. <DD><B> 2. </B>Italian quality, spirit, or principles. <DD><B> 3. </B>attachment to Italy or sympathy with Italian ideas, customs, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="italianize">
<B>Italianize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make or become Italian in habits, customs, or character. noun <B>Italianization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="italianoverture">
<B>Italian overture,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) a type of baroque overture having three movements in a fast-slow-fast tempo. </DL>
<A NAME="italianryegrass">
<B>Italian ryegrass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an annual, or short-lived, perennial grass, grown in Europe and North America for pasture and hay. </DL>
<A NAME="italiansonnet">
<B>Italian sonnet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of sonnet established by Dante and Petrarch; Petrarchan sonnet. It has two parts, the first eight lines (octave) rhyming <I>abba abba</I> and the last six lines (sestet) rhyming in two's or three's, <I>cd cd cd, cde cde,</I> etc. </DL>
<A NAME="italic">
<B>italic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or in type whose letters slant to the right. <BR> <I>Ex. These words are in italic type.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an italic type, letter, or number. <BR><I>expr. <B>italics,</B> </I>type whose letters slant to the right. Italics are used to set off book titles, foreign words and expressions, and other matter from the main body of material. </DL>
<A NAME="italic">
<B>Italic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of ancient Italy, its people, or their languages. <DD><I>noun </I> a division of Indo-European languages including Latin and other ancient dialects of Italy, such as Oscan and Umbrian. </DL>
<A NAME="italicism">
<B>Italicism, </B>noun. =Italianism.</DL>
<A NAME="italicization">
<B>italicization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of italicizing. <BR> <I>Ex. The italicization is mine; but comment I have none (W. Sharp).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="italicize">
<B>italicize, </B>verb, <B>-cized,</B> <B>-cizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to print in type in which the letters slant to the right. <DD><B> 2. </B>to underline (written words) with a single line to indicate italics. We italicize expressions which we wish to distinguish or emphasize. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to use italics. </DL>
<A NAME="italo">
<B>Italo-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) <DD><B> 1. </B>of Italy; of the Italians. <BR> <I>Ex. Italophile = friend of Italy or the Italians.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>Italian and ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Italo-American = Italian and American.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="italoamerican">
<B>Italo-American, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>Italian and American. <BR> <I>Ex. Italo-American relations, an Italo-American treaty.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with Americans of Italian descent. <BR> <I>Ex. the Italo-American community.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an American of Italian descent. </DL>
<A NAME="italophile">
<B>Italophile, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a friend or admirer of Italy or the Italians. <DD><I>adj. </I> friendly to or admiring Italy, the Italians, or Italian culture. </DL>
<A NAME="itch">
<B>itch, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a prickling feeling in the skin that makes one want to scratch. <BR> <I>Ex. to have an itch from a mosquito bite.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) a restless, uneasy feeling, longing, or desire for anything. <BR> <I>Ex. People often have an itch to explore.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause a prickling feeling in the skin. <BR> <I>Ex. Mosquito bites itch.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to have a prickling feeling in the skin. <BR> <I>Ex. My nose itches.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to have an uneasy desire or craving. <BR> <I>Ex. He itched to find out our secret. Their hands had felt Queen Ino's gold, And itched for more (William Morris).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cause to itch. <BR> <I>Ex. This wool shirt itches my back.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the itch,</B> </I>a contagious disease of the skin caused by a tiny mite, accompanied by a prickling feeling; scabies. <BR> <I>Ex. There really is a special parasite which gives rise to the itch (Robert T. Hulme).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="itchingpalm">
<B>itching palm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a great desire for gain; greedy disposition. </DL>
<A NAME="itchmite">
<B>itch mite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a parasitic mite that burrows under the skin of men and animals, causing a dermatitis. </DL>
<A NAME="itchy">
<B>itchy, </B>adjective, <B>itchier,</B> <B>itchiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that itches; itching. <BR> <I>Ex. an itchy sore, itchy skin.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) restless; impatient. <BR> <I>Ex. Buyers had money to spare and, like the ordinary investors, were getting itchy fingers (Manchester Guardian Weekly). He got itchy feet, quit school at 16 and ... sailed for Canada (Maclean's).</I> adv. <B>itchily.</B> noun <B>itchiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="itchyfingered">
<B>itchy-fingered, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a restless trigger finger. <BR> <I>Ex. an itchy-fingered gunman.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=light-fingered.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Some Macy stores install dummy cameras ... in plain sight to discourage itchy-fingered customers (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<B>-ite</B> (1),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming nouns.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a native or inhabitant of ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Canaanite = a native or inhabitant of Canaan.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a descendant of ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Israelite = a descendant of Israel.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a follower or supporter of ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Trotskyite = a follower or supporter of Leon Trotsky.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>resembling, derived from, or having the property of ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Ebonite = resembling ebony.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a mineral species, or a rock substance, as in <I>hematite, humboldtite.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a fossil, as in <I>trilobite, lignite.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a segment of a part of a body, as in <I>dendrite.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a person associated with, as in <I>laborite.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>a substance of organic origin; an explosive; a commercial product, as in <I>dynamite, Bakelite.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ite">
<B>-ite</B> (2),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming nouns.) ester or salt of an acid whose name ends in <I>-ous,</I> as in <I>phosphite, sulfite, nitrite.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="item">
<B>item, </B>noun, adverb, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a separate thing or article. <BR> <I>Ex. The shopping list had twelve items on it, mostly groceries.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a piece of news; bit of information. <BR> <I>Ex. There were several interesting items in yesterday's paper.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>an admonition; warning. <BR> <I>Ex. He ... has need of an item, to caution him to take heed every moment of the day (John Bunyan).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>an intimation; hint. <DD><I>adv. </I> also; likewise (used in introducing each item of an enumeration). <DD><I>v.t. </I> to set down or enter as an item or by items. </DL>
<B>itemize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to give each item of; list by items. <BR> <I>Ex. to itemize the cost of a house. The storekeeper itemized the bill to show the price of each article.</I> noun <B>itemization.</B> noun <B>itemizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="itemveto">
<B>item veto,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a veto of only part of a bill passed by a legislature and not of the entire bill. In some states, the governor may use this veto, but the Constitution does not grant it to the President. </DL>
<B>iterate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to say again or repeatedly; repeat. <BR> <I>Ex. iterating and speaking again that which thou hast heard (Ecclesiasticus 41:23).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to do (something) over again; perform or present a second time. <BR> <I>Ex. the iterated nodes of a sea-shell (Emerson).</I> noun <B>iteration.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="iterative">
<B>iterative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>repeating; full of repetitions. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Grammar.) frequentative. adv. <B>iteratively.</B> noun <B>iterativeness.</B> </DL>
<B>Ithunn</B> or <B>Ithun, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Norse Mythology.) the goddess of spring and youth, wife of Bragi, and keeper of the gods' golden apples of youth. </DL>
<A NAME="ithyphallic">
<B>ithyphallic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having to do with the phallus carried in processions at festivals of Bacchus. <DD><B> 2. </B>grossly indecent; obscene. <DD><B> 3. </B>(in ancient prosody) of or composed in one of the meters used in hymns sung at the festivals of Bacchus, especially in lines of three trochees. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a poem in ithyphallic meter; lines of three trochees. <DD><B> 2. </B>an indecent poem. </DL>
<A NAME="itin">
<B>itin.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> itinerary. </DL>
<A NAME="itineracy">
<B>itineracy, </B>noun. =itinerancy.</DL>
<A NAME="itinerancy">
<B>itinerancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a traveling from place to place. <DD><B> 2. </B>a body of itinerant preachers or judges. <DD><B> 3. </B>official work requiring much travel from place to place, or frequent changes of residence. </DL>
