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<p><b>3.</b> <def>As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.</def>

<h1>I-</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I-</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>prefix.</tt> <def>See <er>Y-</er>.</def>

<h1>I</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>pron.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>poss.</tt> <er>My</er> <tt>(?)</tt> or <er>Mine</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>object.</tt> <er>Me</er> <tt>(?)</tt>. <plu>pl. <tt>nom.</tt> <plw>We</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>poss.</tt> <plw>Our</plw> <tt>(?)</tt> or <plw>Ours</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>object.</tt> <plw>Us</plw> <tt>(?)</tt>.</plu>]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>i</ets>, <ets>ich</ets>, <ets>ic</ets>, AS. <ets>ic</ets>; akin to OS. & D. <ets>ik</ets>, OHG. <ets>ih</ets>, G. <ets>ich</ets>, Icel. <ets>ek</ets>, Dan. <ets>jeg</ets>, Sw. <ets>jag</ets>, Goth. <ets>ik</ets>, OSlav. <ets>az'</ets>, Russ. <ets>ia</ets>, W. <ets>i</ets>, L. <ets>ego</ets>, Gr. <?/, <?/, Skr. <ets>aham</ets>. &root;179. Cf. <er>Egoism</er>.]</ety> <def>The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.</def>

<h1>Iamatology</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am`a*tol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, medicine + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.</def>

<h1>Iamb</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I"amb</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>iambe</ets>. See <er>Lambus</er>.]</ety> <def>An iambus or iambic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Iambic</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am"bic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>iambicus</ets>, Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>iambique</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; <as>as, an <ex>iambic</ex> foot</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; <as>as, an <ex>iambic</ex> verse; <ex>iambic</ex> meter. See <er>Lambus</er>.</as></def>

<h1>Iambic</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am"bic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An iambic foot; an iambus.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A verse composed of iambic feet.</def>

<note>&hand; The following couplet consists of iambic verses.</note>

<blockquote>Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame In keen | <b>iam-</b> | <b>bics</b>, but | mild an- | agram. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.</def>

<h1>Iambical</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am"bic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Iambic.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<h1>Iambically</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am"bic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.</def>

<h1>Iambize</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am"bize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Iambus</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*am"bus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Iambi</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, E. <plw>Iambuses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>iambus</ets>, Gr. <?/; prob. akin to <?/ to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. <ets>jacere</ets> to throw. Cf. <er>Jet</er> a shooting forth.]</ety> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in <i>&acr;m\'bens</i>, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as <i>invent</i>; an iambic. See the Couplet under <er>Iambic</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Ianthina</h1> <Xpage=723>

<hw>I*an"thi*na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Ianthin\'91</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, E. <plw>Ianthinas</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>ianthinus</ets> violet-blue, Gr. <?/; <?/ violet + <?/ flower.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any gastropod of the genus <spn>Ianthina</spn>, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also <altname>purple shell</altname>, and <altname>violet snail</altname>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>janthina</asp>.]</altsp>

<note>&hand; It floats at the surface by means of a raft, which it constructs by forming and uniting together air bubbles of hardened mucus. The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus.</note>