Italicism
(I*tal"i*cism) n.
1. A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.
2. The use of Italics.
Italicize
(I*tal"i*cize) v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Italicized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Italicizing ] To print in Italic
characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too
much.
Ita palm
(I"ta palm`) (Bot.) A magnificent species of palm growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its
fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.
Itch
(Itch) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Itched (icht); p. pr. & vb. n. Itching.] [OE. icchen, &yoghicchen, AS.
giccan; akin to D. jeuken, joken, G. jucken, OHG. jucchen.]
1. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
My mouth hath itched all this long day.
Chaucer. 2. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears. "An itching palm."
Shak.
Itch
(Itch), n.
1. (Med.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic
mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
2. Any itching eruption.
3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; — called also
scabies, psora, etc.
4. A constant irritating desire.
An itch of being thought a divine king.
Dryden. Baker's itch.
See under Baker. - - Barber's itch, sycosis. — Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the
hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers. — Grocer's itch, an itching eruption,
being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (Tyrogluphus sacchari). — Itch insect (Zoöl.), a
small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing
the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append. — Itch mite. (Zoöl.) Same as Itch insect, above.
Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox. — Sugar baker's itch, a
variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin. — Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the
hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.
Itchiness
(Itch"i*ness) n. The state of being itchy.
Itchless
(Itch"less), a. Free from itching.
Itchy
(Itch"y) a. Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation. Cowper.
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ite
(-ite) [From Gr. .]
1. A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently
used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.