Part 6092

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything regarded as resembling an island; <as>as, an <ex>island</ex> of ice</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Isle</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 2.</def>

<cs><col>Islands of the blessed</col> <fld>(Myth.)</fld>, <cd>islands supposed to lie in the Western Ocean, where the favorites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting joy.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Is"land</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.</def>

<i>Shelley.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To furnish with an island or with islands; <as>as, to <ex>island</ex> the deep</as>.</def>

<i>Southey.</i>

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<hw>Is"land*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An inhabitant of an island.</def>

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<hw>Is"land*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands.</def>

<i>Cotgrave.</i>

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<hw>Isle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Obs</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Aisle</er>.</def>

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<hw>Isle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>isle</ets>, F. <ets>\'8cle</ets>, L. <ets>insula</ets>; cf. Lith. <ets>sala</ets>. Cf. <er>Insulate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An island.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>Imperial rule of all the seagirt <b>isles</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects.</def>

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<hw>Isle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Isled</b> in sudden seas of light. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Islet</h1> <Xpage=791>

<hw>Is"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>islette</ets> (cf. F. <ets>\'8clot</ets>), dim. of <ets>isle</ets>.]</ety> <def>A little island.</def>

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<hw>-ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[F. -<ets>isme</ets>, or L. -<ets>ismus</ets>, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>A suffix indicating an <i>act</i>, a <i>process</i>, the <i>result of an act or a process</i>, a <i>state</i>; also, a <i>characteristic</i> (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); <as>as, bapt<ex>ism</ex>, galvan<ex>ism</ex>, organ<ex>ism</ex>, hypnot<ex>ism</ex>, social<ex>ism</ex>, sensual<ex>ism</ex>, Anglic<ex>ism</ex></as>.</def>

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