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pron. [ poss. My r Mine object. Me <it>pl.it> nom. We poss. Our r Ours object. Us ] [ OE. i, ich, ic, AS. ic; akin to OS. & D. ik, OHG. ih, G. ich, Icel. ek, Dan. jeg, Sw. jag, Goth. ik, OSlav. az', Russ. ia, W. i, L. ego, Gr. 'egw`, 'egw`n, Skr. aham. &radic;179. Cf. Egoism. ] The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

prefix. See Y-. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ <it>orit> }. [ OE. y-, i-, AS. ge-, akin to D. & G. ge-, OHG. gi-, ga-, Goth. ga-, and perhaps to Latin con-; originally meaning, together. Cf. Com-, Aware, Enough, Handiwork, Ywis. ] A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive. Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use. [ 1913 Webster ]

That no wight mighte it see neither yheere. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither to ben yburied nor ybrent. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some examples of Chaucer's use of this prefix are; ibe, ibeen, icaught, ycome, ydo, idoon, ygo, iproved, ywrought. It inough, enough, it is combined with an adjective. Other examples are in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ] Spenser and later writers frequently employed this prefix when affecting an archaic style, and sometimes used it incorrectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indoleacetic acid, a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots. [ Acronym ]
Syn. -- indoleacetic acid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, medicine + -logy. ] (Med.) Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. iambe. See Lambus. ] An iambus or iambic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. iambicus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. iambique. ] 1. (Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Pros.) (a) An iambic foot; an iambus. (b) A verse composed of iambic feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The following couplet consists of iambic verses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame
In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon. [ 1913 Webster ]