Ichorous, a. Serous, watery, thin.
Ichthyocol, Ichthyocolla, n. Isinglass, fish-glue, carlock.
Icing, n. Frosting, concreted sugar (for coating cake).
Iconoclasm, n. Image-breaking.
Iconoclast, n. Image-breaker.
Icterus, n. (Med.) Jaundice.
Icy, a.
- 1. Glacial.
- 2. Cold, chilling, frosty, intensely cold.
- 3. Frigid, indifferent, cold-hearted.
Idea, n.
- 1. [In the Platonic philosophy.] Archetype (conceived of as existing from eternity), pattern, model, exemplar,
form, essence (common to many individual things and represented by a general term), creative or self-
active ideal.
- 2. [In the Kantian philosophy.] Supreme principle of pure reason, regulative first principle, highest unitary
principle of thought. [There are three such,the Self, the Cosmic Force, and God.]
- 3. [In the Hegelian philosophy.] Supreme principle, the Absolute, the Self-existent, as the unity of subject
and object, God.
- 4. Universal concept, conception, notion, general or universal conception.
- 5. Object of thought, image in the mind, mental representation of an object, image in reflection, memory,
or imagination.
- 6. Impression, apprehension, thought, fancy, conceit.
- 7. Opinion, belief, supposition, judgment, sentiment.
- 8. Guiding conception, organizing conception, formative notion, regulative principle.