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Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.

An inhabitant of an island.

Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.

Peninsula. [Obs.] Knolles.

Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives.

chen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

r Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curca…

ing weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

ul birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.