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-ician
- •Denoting a person proficient in or concerned with certain subjects, such
as magician, mortician.
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illuminator
- •one who decorates with gold, silver or brilliant colors, esp. manuscripts,
or the initial letters of paragraphs therein.
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illywhacker
- •Austral. sl. a professional trickster
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imam
- •a leader of prayers in a mosque
- •a title of various Muslim leaders, esp. of one succeeding Mohammed as a
leader of Islam.
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immigrant
- •one who leaves ones country to settle in another,
usually with reference to the receiving country,
(e.g. ~ to America);
cf emigrant, migrant
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imperator
- •Rom. hist. a title conferred under the Republic on a victorious
general, or under the Empire on the emperor.
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impresario
- •an organizer of public entertainments, esp. the manager of a theatrical,
operatic, or concert company.
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inceptor
- •Brit. hist. one who has taken a master's or doctor's degree at university
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incomer
- •Brit. a person who arrives to settle a place
- •an immigrant
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indentured ~
- •a person bound by indentures (contracts) to a term of servitude or apprenticeship.
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indiaman
- •naut. hist. a ship engaged in trade with India or the East Indies
- •metaphorically, a sailor serving on such.
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infant
- •a child in its earliest term of life.
- •Brit a schoolchild below the age of seven years.
- •Law a minor; a person under the age of 18 years.
- Infante (
 ~a)
- •hist in Spain and Portugal, the eldest son (daughter) not heir to the throne.
(=Usually the second eldest.)
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infantryman
- •mil. a soldier in an infantry unit;
- •a foot soldier
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interpreter
- •one who translates;
esp. one who translates speech orally.
- cf translator
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ironmaster
- •Brit a manufacturer of iron.
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ironmonger
- •Brit a dealer in hardware.
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ironside
- •a person of great bravery, courage or endurance.
- Ironsides
- •a nickname of Oliver Cromwell.
- •Cromwell's troopers in the English Civil War.
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-ist
- •one that performs a specific action: (e.g. lobbyist).
- •one that produces, makes, operates, plays or is connected with a specific thing: (e.g. novelist).
- •a specialist in a specific art, science or skill: (e.g. biologist).
- •an adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: (e.g. anarchist).
- •one that is characterized by a specific trait or quality: (e.g. romanticist).
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itinerant
- •one who performs his trade or profession by travelling from place to place,
as a tinker, butcher, minister, circuit judge, etc.
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