Ironton
a city and county-seat of Lawrence co., O.; on the Ohio river, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton and the Norfolk and Western railroads; 127 miles S. of Columbus. It contains a Memorial Hall, Masonic and Odd Fellows' Halls, city hospital, Briggs Public Library, Kelley and Riverview Parks, electric street railroad and lighting plants, Holly system of waterworks, National banks, and manufactories steel, nails, and other commodities. The city is the mining, manufacturing, and farming trade center for a region within a radius of 30 miles, and is at the base of a range of lofty hills containing large deposits of iron ore and bituminous coal. Pop. (1910) 13,147; (1920) 14,007.
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Ironwood (City in Gogebic co Mich)
a city in Gogebic co., Mich., on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroads; 39 miles E. of for Ashland, Wis. It is the trade center the famous Gogebic iron region. Here is the Norrie Mine, once the largest producer of iron ore in the world, and there are also other large mines. The city has a National bank, trolley line connecting with Hurley and Gile, Wis., weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 12,- 821; (1920) 15,739.
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Ironwood (Name given to various trees)
a name given to various trees from the quality of their timber. The ironwood or hop - hornbeam of America (Ostrya virginica), order Cupuliferæ, is a tree with a trunk not exceeding six inches in diameter, with very hard wood, so heavy that it sinks in water, and foliage resembling that of birch. The species of the genus Sideroxylon, known as ironwood, are natives of the tropics and also of New Zealand, the Cape, etc. The S. inerme, or smooth ironwood of the cape, has long been cultivated in the greenhouses of Europe. Diospyros Ebenum (the ebony) is also named iron wood, as is the Metrosideros vera of Java.
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Irony
a kind of ridicule which exposes errors or faults by seeming to approve, adopt, or defend them. The Socratic irony is employed in argument one speaker affects to take the when positions of the other for granted, in order adroitly to lead him into self-contradiction or obvious absurdity. Veiled sarcasm is a brief modern definition of irony.
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Irrational
in mathematics any quantity which cannot be exactly expressed by an integral number, umber, or by a vulgar fraction: thus V 2 is an irrational quantity, because we cannot write for it either an integral number or a apvulgar fraction; we may, however, proximate to it as closely as may be desired. In general, every indicated root of an imperfect power of the degree indicated is irrational. Such quantities are often called surds.
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Irritability
in anatomy, vital contractibility, the property of visibly contracting even after death, on the apstimulus. The right plication of a auricle has been found irritable for 16½ hours after death. A voluntary muscle has been found irritable 24 hours after death. In botany, excitability of an extreme character, in which an organ exhibits movements different from those commonly met with in plants. Its known causes are three-atmospheric pressure, spontaneous motion, and the contact of other bodies. Thus plants sleep, the compound leaves, where such exist, folding together; so also the sensitive plant shrinks from touch.
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Irritant
in pharmacy, that which produces irritation or excitement of any muscle, nerve, or other organ or part of the body. A pure irritant is a poison producing inflammation without corrosive action on the tissues.
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Irtish
a river of Siberia, the chief affluent of the Obi, rises at the E. end of the Altai Mountains, passes through Lake Saisan, breaks through the Altai in the W. at the bottom of a savage gorge, and flows N. W. across the steppes of Western Siberia to join the Obi, from the left, at Samarow. At that point it has a width of 2,000 yards; its total length is 1,620 miles; the area of its basin, 647,000 square miles. The important towns of Se Semipalatinsk, Omsk, and Tobolsk stand on its banks. From April to November it is navigable from its mouth as far as Lake Saisan; during the rest of the year traffic is carried on by means of sledges. Its current is gradually shifting E. Its best known tributaries are the Buchtarma and Om from the right, and the Tobol and Ishim from the left.
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Irus
a beggar of Ithaca and lover of Penelope, killed by Ulysses by a blow with his fist.
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Irving
HENRY BRODRIBB, an English actor, son of Sir Henry Irving, born in 1870 in London. He was educated at New College, Oxford, and entered the bar in 1894. He soon gave this up for the stage, where he soon became a prominent figure. He became a manager in 1902. In 1906 and 1907 he made a tour in America which was followed by tours in Australia and South Africa. Following his return from the latter, he leased the Savoy Theater. He appeared as star in many successful plays. He wrote "Life of Judge Jeffreys" (1898); "Occasional Papers" (1906); "The Trial of Mrs. Maybrick" (1913). He died in 1919.
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Irving (II)
LAWRENCE (SYDNEY BRODRIBB), an English actor and manager, son of Sir Henry Irving, born in 1872. He was educated at Marlborough College and in Paris. For three years he lived in Russia where he studied diplomacy. He left this for the stage in 1893. After tours in provincial companies, he played in his father's company from 1900 to 1904. This was followed by a tour in America. In 1912 he played leading parts in several important plays, including several Shakespearian plays. While returning to England in May, 1914, he was drowned in the "Empress of Ireland" disaster. He wrote several plays, including "Peter the Great"; "Richard Lovelace"; "The Typhoon."
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Irving (ISABEL an American actress)
ISABEL, an American actress, born in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1871. She made her first appearance on the stage in 1887, and within a short time had become the leading woman at the Lyceum Theater in New York and in John Drew's Company. For several years she played leading parts in England. She played as leading woman and as star in many important plays. In 1889 she married William H. Thompson.
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