1. An island. [Poetic] Imperial rule of all the seagirt isles. Milton.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects.
ISLE
Isle, v. t.
Defn: To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island. [Poetic] Isled in sudden seas of light. Tennyson.
ISLET
Is"let, n. Etym: [OF. islette (cf. F. îlot), dim. of isle.]
Defn: A little island.
-ISM -ism. Etym: [F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr.
Defn: A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
ISM
Ism, n. Etym: [See ism, above.]