Defn: To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.
ITA PALM
I"ta palm`. (Bot.)
Defn: A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.
ITCH
Itch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Itched; p. pr. & vb. n. Itching.] Etym:
[OE. icchen, , AS. giccan; akin to D. jeuken, joken, G. jucken, OHG.
jucchen.]
1. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected. My mouth hath itched all this long day. Chaucer.
2. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears. "An itching palm." Shak.
ITCH
Itch, n.
1. (Med.)
Defn: An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
2. Any itching eruption.