2. A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence;
the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also,
a body of persons who thus discharge official duty.
I*tin"er*ant (?), a. [LL. itinerans, -antis, p. pr. of itinerare to
make a journey, fr. L. iter, itineris, a walk, way, journey. See
Errant, Issue.] Passing or traveling about a country; going or
preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant
preacher; an itinerant peddler.
The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's
palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses
which he continually made.
Blackstone.
I*tin"er*ant, a. One who travels from place to place, particularly a
preacher; one who is unsettled.
Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town.
Hudibras.
I*tin"er*ant*ly, adv. In an itinerant manner.
I*tin"er*a*ry (?), a. [L. itinerarius: cf. F. itinéraire. See
Itinerant.] Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on
a journey.
It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.
Bacon.
I*tin"er*a*ry, n.; pl. Itineraries (#). [L. itinerarium: cf. F.
itinéraire. See Itinerary, a.] An account of travels, or a register of
places and distances as a guide to travelers; as, the Itinerary of
Antoninus.
I*tin"er*ate (?). v. i. [imp. & p. p. Itinerated (#); p. pr. & vb. n.
Itinerating (#).] [LL. itineratus, p. p. of itinerari, itinerare. See
Itinerant.] To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from
place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching,
lecturing, etc.
-i"tis (?), [Gr. &?;, orig, fem. adjective suffix.] A suffix used in
medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis;
bronchitis, phrenitis.
Its (?). Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It.
It*self" (?), pron. The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing
is good in itself; it stands by itself.
Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or
poor.
Locke.
It"tri*a (?), n. [NL.] See Yttria.
It"tri*um (?), n. [NL.] See Yttrium.
It"zi*bu (?), n. [Jap. ichibu.] (Numis.) A silver coin of Japan, worth
about thirty-four cents. [Written also itzebu, ichebu, itcheboo, etc.]
I*u"li*dan (?), n. [See Iulus.] (Zoöl.) One of the Iulidæ, a family of
myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.
||I*u"lus (?), n. [L., down, Gr. &?; down, centipede.] (Zoöl.) A genus
||of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of
||numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of
||short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.
||
I*van" I*van"o*vitch (?). An ideal personification of the typical
Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for
the typical Englishman.
I've (?). Colloquial contraction of I have.
-ive (?). [L. -ivus.] An adjective suffix signifying relating or
belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active,
conclusive, corrective, diminutive.
I"vied (?), a. [From Ivy.] Overgrown with ivy.
I"vo*ride (?), n. A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used
as a substitute for it.
I"vo*ry ("v*r), n.; pl. Ivories (#). [OE. ivori, F. ivoire, fr. L.
eboreus made of ivory, fr. ebur, eboris, ivory, cf. Skr. ibha elephant.
Cf. Eburnean.]
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1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the
tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the
minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double
flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance
constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks
of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.