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Ignition – Ice-fall

Ignition

The modern motor possesses electrical system, the object of which is to explode the compressed charge by causing a periodical spark in the cylinder. This system is the "Ignition."

Insulation

On electrical circuits it is necessary, in order to prevent a leakage and dissipation of current, to separate the conductor from surrounding objects by means of insulation.

Rubber, glass, vulcanite, air, &c., form a group of the best insulators. Water is an enemy to insulation.

In-Fighting

-Fighting at close quarters.

Ist of January

of the year preceding the commencement of the season of running. See also sapling.

Rick. Old term for wrench (q.v.)

Innings

The stay of a side or an individual at the wickets.

Late cut. A cut (q.v.) which sends the ball considerably behind the wickets.

In-turn

A twist given to the stone, which causes it to describe a curve to the right.

Iceland Falcon

- Falco islandicus. Another variety of the ger-falcon.

Imp

To mend the broken feathers of a hawk.

Intermewed.- (1) A hawk is intermewed from the first exchange of her coat until she becomes a white hawk. (Latham and Campbell.) (2) Of a hawk that has been moulted in confinement. (Lascelles and Salvin.) Jack.-Male of the merlin.

Iron

A club with an iron head, used chiefly for approaching the hole and for lifting the ball over obstacles.

Ice

Is called soft when the snow of which it is composed has not become solidified; hard, or black, when it is perfectly homogeneous.

Ice-cap

The permanent covering of a given area by ice or snow.

Ice-fall

A much crevassed part of a glacier, usually caused by the glacier descending steeply over a rocky bed.

Ice-tongue.- A projection of ice at the foot of a glacier.