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A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.
A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood.
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An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.
v. t.
To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
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Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands.
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A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.
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Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae.
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An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.
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An inhabitant of an island.
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A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
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Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.
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A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
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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.
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In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.
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Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
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Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios).
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Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia.
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To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
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An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
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