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Inisle :: Inisle (v. t.) To form into an island; to surround.

Isle :: Isle (v. t.) To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island..

Upas :: Upas (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas..

Cheroot :: Cheroot (n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco..

Sapan Wood :: Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood..

Siren :: Siren (n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction..

Hebridian :: Hebridian (a.) Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland..

Eyot :: Eyot (n.) A little island in a river or lake. See Ait.

Pahi :: Pahi (n.) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

Cluster :: Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands..

Islet :: Islet (n.) A little island.

Maroon :: Maroon (v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

Kurilian :: Kurilian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso..

Barbadoes :: Barbadoes (n.) A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc..

Laputan :: Laputan (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy..

Kill :: Kill (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc..

Island :: Island (n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent..

Lory :: Lory (n.) Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers..

Micronesians :: Micronesians (n. pl.) A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans..

Nutmeg :: Nutmeg (n.) The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics..

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