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I. [Obs.] Chaucer.

family Viverridæ. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of In…

Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidæ, or ichneumon flies. -- n.

The ichneumon flies.

A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone. Page.

Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.

A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.

A fossil footprint; an ichnite.

Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.

Of or pertaining to ichnology.

The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.

The search for the traces of anything. [R.]

An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words

Like, or pertaining to, fishes.