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  • Indian arrowroot
    /ìnjan árwut/ [DIE idem, MCC Indian arrow idem; cf. AROOT] n, the arrowroot plant, Maranta arundinacea, which produces an edible
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  • in-and-out
    [from weaving] n. a style of plaiting STRAW1 (Wyannie Malone Museum display), (Andros, Long)
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  • Inagua
    /ináhgwa/ [this name is found on the 1523 Turin map (Curry 1928:26), suggesting a Lucayan origin (ibid 20); however, according
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  • in-a
    /ína/ [cf. Atlantic ina, na in (Hancock 1969: 65) and Haitian nã and Papiamentu na idem; cf. Port. na in
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  • in
    prep. [note that the early form na (cf. IN-A) was a general locative prep. corresponding to 'in, on, onto, at'
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  • I'm, I am
    [probably by analogy of he's he is, he has; cf. US dial. South "I'm a good mind to (do something)"
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  • ill-convenient
    [OED, now vulgar; also Scots CSD, US dial. ADD] adj. inconvenient: My mother said it was an ill-convenient time to
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  • Ilathera
    [cf. ELEUTHERIA ] n., Obs. an eighteenth-century name for Eleuthera, a major island of the Bahamas: 1731 The islands of
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  • ijittimy
    See JITNEY 3.
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  • ingranant
    cf. Trin. igronant annoyed (Ottley 16); cf. IGNORANCE] adj. mentally retarded: Being igranant is the first stage of being crazy
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