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.
I"ta palm` (?). (Bot.) A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia
flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and
buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.
Itch (ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Itched (cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Itching.]
[OE. icchen, icchen, 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, 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.