Ibadan – Igasurine
Ibadan
a city of Africa in Nigeria.
The chief industry is agriculture. Pop. is about 150,000.
Ibague
or IBAQUE (ē-bägä), a town of the Republic of Colombia, department of Tolima, about 70 miles W. of Bogota. Pop. about 25,000.
Ibos
African tribes on the shores of the Gulf of Guinea and around the great delta of the river Niger. They speak a language called Ibo, which is akin to the Ewe and the Tshi. The entire population probably approaches 5,000,000. The towns or settlements of Lakoja, Asaba, Akassa, Bonny, are in this region.
Ibrahim
sultan of the Turks, son of Achmet; succeeded his brother Achmet IV. in 1640. He besieged and took the capital of Candia from the Venetians in 1644; but his cruelties and debaucheries were so great that the soldiers strangled him in 1649.
Iceland Moss
in botany, Cetraria islandica, formerly called Lichen islandicus. It is found in small quantities on the ground in exposed places in Scotland. It is slightly bitter as well as mucilaginous. An aqueous decoction of it, when cooled, makes a thick jelly. It is used as a tonic and nutrient.
Iceland Spar
a transparent calespar, or calcite, CaCO3; it may be split along its cleavage-planes into an obtuse rhombohedron and is doubly refracting.
Ichthyol
a medicine prescribed for its effect upon the alimentary canal and the general system. Its basis is a bituminous mineral rich in fish fossils.
ICHTHYOLOGY (ik-the-ol'ō-jē), the science which treats of fishes. See FISH.
ICHTHYOPSIDA (ik-the-op'sē-dä), one of the three great primary divisions of the Vertebrata (the others being Sauropsida and Mammalia), comprising the fishes and amphibia.
Idaho Falls
a city of Idaho, the
Ide
a fish of the carp family, the Leuciscus idus, found in rocky lakes of Northern Europe. It is a good table fish.
Ideal Realism
a name for the teachings of an eclectic branch of the Kantian school, who attempted to build ficing Kant's realistic postulates to his idealistic teachings, or conversely giving up the latter in favor of the former.
Schleiermacher, Ulrici, and Trendelenburg were of this section of Kantists.
Ides
in the ancient Roman calendar, land as "mental deficiency or extreme stupidity depending upon malnutrition
Igasurine
an alkaloid discovered in 1853 by Desnoix, in the motherliquors from which strychnine and brucine had been precipitated by lime. It crystallizes in fe feathery groups of white silky needles, which have the bitter taste poisonous properties of strychnine and brucine. It resembles brucine in its behavior toward reagents.