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Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.

To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. [R.] Ascham.

A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.

To play the Italian; to speak Italian. Cotgrave.

l. -- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. Francis. -- Aqua vitæ Etym: [L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh], a name given to brandy and some other…

Italian. Milton.

n, do, must, shall, and will, in English; être and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.

An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.

A lawless or blackmailing secret society, esp. among Italians. [U. S.]

; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

nt, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order thaItalian method.

The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.

or division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.

The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

ith a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open. Close borough. See under Borough. -- Close breeding. See under Breeding. -- Close communion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. -…

alled also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.