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A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.
A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building.
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v. t.
A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.
a.
Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.
v. t.
To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.
n.
Isle.
n.
An islet in a river.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.
adv.
Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
n.
An island.
a.
Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.
n.
A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.
n.
A little island.
n.
The language spoken in the Isle of Man. See Manx.
a.
Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.
n.
A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
n.
A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, debris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, // 255-261.
n.
A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects.
n.
See Aisle.
n.
The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.
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