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Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [R.] Woodward.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

mal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

ailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony. Macaulay.

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

n. He had just time to get in and clap to the door. Locke Clap an extinguaisher upon your irony. Lamb.

ons, not the essence of this virtue [charity]. Addison. The essence of Addison's humor is irony. Courthope.

Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark.

One who uses irony.

A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt. Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Milton.

rikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! Landor.

Sustentation. [R. or Colloq.] In fine images, in sustention, in irony, they surpass anything that Burke ever wrote. J. Morley.

A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language. "Worst of all wightes." Chaucer. Every wight that hath discretion. Chaucer. Oh, say me true if thou wert mortal wight. Milton.