Hythe
one of the Cinque Ports of England. In 1295 the French made a descent on Hythe, but were decisively repulsed.
I I, i, the ninth letter and the third vowel in the English alphabet. It has two principal sounds: (1) a long sound, long sound , as in bind, find, and in all words of one syllable ending in e, as in fine, wine, etc.; (2) a short sound, as in fin, bill, fill , etc.
Besides these it has also three minor sounds: (1) as in dirk, first, etc.; (2) the French sound, as in intrigue, machine, etc.; and (3) the consonantal sound of y, when followed by a vowel, in Christian , million, etc. With a and e, i makes several digraphs, as in wail, neigh, field, seize, friend; with o it forms a proper diphthong, as in oil.
A, i, and u are by philologists called the primitive vowels, and from them all the various vowel sounds in the Aryan language have been developed. As a prefix , i was used in Middle English to represent the A. S. ge as in iwis = gewiss. IACCHUS (yak'us), the Eleusinian name of Bacchus. a city of IALYSUS (yal'ē-sus), Rhodes, founded by the Phœnicians. Its history goes back to about 1300 B. C. and it is alluded to by Pindar .
IAMBIC (ē-am'bik or i-am'bik), in prosody a foot consisting of one short and one long syllable, or one unaccented and one accented. The iambic meter having been originally, according to Aristotle, employed in satirical poems, satirical poems , the term "iambics" came to be used as equivalent to a satire or lampoon.
IANTHE (i-an'the), a mythology, a girl of Crete, who married Iphis; one of the Oceanides; one of the Nereides.
IAN MACLAREN. See WATSON, JOHN. eye-pedicel on each side, but no actual eye. Four species are known, all recent, from the Atlantic Ocean and the Coral Sea. Ianthina fragilis is found in nearly every sea, and has helped to extend the range of other species parasitic on its shell.
IAPETUS (yap'e-tus), regarded by the ancient Greeks as the father of the human race, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Atlas and Prometheus, is supposed to be the Japheth of Genesis. In astronomy, the name given to the earth or outside satellite of Saturn, discovered in 1671 by J. D. Cassini. It revolves round Saturn in a period of about 7912 days.