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IRON'DEQUAT, called in fome maps Ge Rundegut, a 
gulf or bay on the fouth-fide of the Lake Ontario, four 
miles eaft of Walker’s, at the mouth of GenelTee rivers. 
IRONGRAY', a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Kircudbright: fixteen miles eaft of Kircudbright. 
IRON'ICAL, adj. [ironique , Fr. from ireny. ] Expreff- 
ing one thing and meaning another; fpeaking by contra¬ 
ries—In this fallacy may be comprifed all ironical mif- 
takes, or expreftions receiving inverted fignifications. 
Brown. —I take all your ironical civilities in a literal (enfe, 
and fhall expert them to be literally performed. Swift. 
IRON'ICALLY, adv. By the ufe of irony.—Socrates 
was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wife ft 
man of Greece, which he would turn from himfelf ironi¬ 
cally, faying, There could be nothing in him to verify the 
oracle, except this, that he was not wife, and knew it; 
and others were not wife, and knew it not. Bacon. 
The dean, ironically grave, 
Still fhunn’d the fool, and lafh’d the knave. Swift. 
IRON'ICALNESS,/] The quality of being ironical. 
I'RONING, f. The procefs of fmoothing linen with an 
iron. 
I'RONY, adj. [from iron. ] Made of iron ; partaking of 
iron.—The force they are under is real, and that of their 
fate but imaginary : it is not ftrange if the irony chains 
have more lolidity than the contemplative. Hammond. 
I'RONY,/ lironie, Fr.] A mode of fpeech in which 
the meaning is contrary to the words: as, Bolingbroke was 
a holy man. —So grave a body, upon fo folemn an occafion, 
fhould not deal in irony, or explain their meaning by con¬ 
traries. Swift. 
IROQUOI'S, a confederacy of Indian nations fo called 
by the French. Formerly they were called the Five Na¬ 
tions, five only being joined in that alliance ; but they 
now confift of fix nations, and call themlelves Agamufcki- 
■cni, that is, the United People. Some call them Mingos ; 
others Maquais. Thefe fix nations are the Mohawks, 
Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas, Cayugas, and Tufcaroras. 
The latter joined the confederacy feventy years ago. 
In the American war, they were our allies, and in 
1779 were entirely defeated by the troops of Congrefs, 
and their towns all deftroyed. They now live on grounds 
called the State Refervations, which are intermediate 
fpaces fettled on all fides by white people. In their pre- 
fent cramped fituation, they cannot keep together a great 
■while. They will probably quit the United States, and 
retire over the lakes Ontario and Erie. All the Mohawks 
■and the greater part of the Cayugas, have already removed 
into Canada. The number of fouls in all the fix nations 
•was, in 1796, 4058. The Stockbridge and Brotherton 
Indians, who now live among them, added, make the 
whole number, 4508 ; of whom 760 live in Canada, the reft 
in the United States. By a treaty made in 1794, between 
the United States on the one part, and the Six Nations 
and their Indian friends refiding with them on the other 
part, it was ftipulated that “ the fum of 4500 dollars 
fhould be expended annually and for ever, in purchafing 
clothing, domeftic animals, implements of hufbandry, 
and other utenfils, and in compenfating ufeful artificers 
who fhall refide among them, and be employed for their 
benefit.” This allowance is under the direftion of a fu- 
perintendant, and is not diftributed for any private pur- 
pofes. It is apportioned among them according to their 
numbers; in order to which, there is annually taken an 
exact cenfus of all thefe nations. In 1796, the Friends, 
commonly called Quakers, in their benevolence arid zeal 
to promote the welfare of thefe Indians, railed a fund to 
fupport a number of their fociety, who offered to go and 
refide among them, with a view to promote their civili¬ 
zation, moral improvement, and real welfare. A com¬ 
mittee of their fociety was appointed to accompany thefe 
friends to humanity ; and they were aftually on the fpot, 
and commenced their work of charity, in July 1798. The 
State of New York have taken thefe Indians under their 
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proteflion, and appointed commiffioners to take care that 
they receive no wrong from interefted individuals. 
IROQUOI'S RIV'ER, or Sorrel River, the outlet of 
Lake Champlain, which, after a courfe of about fixty-nine 
miles north, runs into the river St. Lawrence, in lat. 46. 10. 
and Ion. 72. 25. W. Sorrel Fort, built by the French, is 
at the weftern point of the mouth of this river. 
I'ROUS, adj. Angry; pafTionate Chaucer. 
IR'PEAL, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
IR'PIN, a river of Ruftia, which formerly formed the 
boundary-line between -that part of the palatinate of Kiev 
which was added to Ruffia and that which was left to 
Poland, and runs into the Dnieper above Kiev. 
IRRA'DIANCE, or Irra'diancy, /. [Fr. of irradio, 
Lat.] Emiftion of rays or beams of light upon any objeft. 
—The principal affeflion is its tranflucency : the irradiancy 
and fparkling, found in many gems, is not difcoverable 
in this. Brown. —Beams of light emitted : 
Love not the heav’nly fpirits ? Or do they mix 
Irradiance virtual, or immediate touch ? Milton. 
To IRRA'DIATE, v. a. To adorn with light emitted 
upon it; to brighten.—When he thus perceives that thefe 
opacous bodies do not hinder the eye from judging light 
to have an equal plenary diffufion through the whole 
place it irradiates, he can have no difficulty to allow air, 
that is diaphanous, to be every where mingled with light. 
Digby on Bodies. —To enlighten ; to illumine; to illumi¬ 
nate : 
Shine inward, and the mind through all her pow’rs 
Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all milt from thence 
Purge and difperfe. Milton. 
To animate by heat or light.—Ethereal or folar heat mull 
digelt, influence, irradiate, and put thofe more Ample 
parts of matter into motion. Hale. —To decorate with 
Ihining ornaments: 
No weeping orphan favv his father’s ftore 
Our Ihrines irradiate, or imblaze the floor. Pope. 
IRR A'DIATING, f. The aft of animating with light. 
IRRADIA'TION, f. The aft of emitting beams of 
light.—Jf light were a body, it fhould drive away the air, 
which is likewife a body, wherever it is admitted ; for, 
within the whole fphere of the irradiation of it, there is no 
point but light is found. Digby on Bodies. —Illumination ; 
intelleftual light.—The means of immediate union of 
thefe intelligible objefts to the underltanding, are fome- 
times divine and fupernatural, as by immediate irradiation 
or revelation. Hale. 
IRRA'TIONAL, adj. [irrationa/is, Lat.] Void of rea- 
fon ; void of underltanding ; wanting the difcourfive fa¬ 
culty : 
Thus began 
Outrage from lifelefs things : but difcord firft 
Daughter of fin, among th’ irrational 
Death introduc’d. Milton. 
Ahfurd ; contrary to reafon.—I fhall quietly fubmit, not 
wilhing fo irrational a thing as that every body fhould be 
deceived. Pope. 
IRR ATIONAL'ITY, f. Want of reafon. 
IRR A'TION ALLY, adv. Without reafon ; abfurdly, 
IRR A'TION ALNESS,/ Irrationality. Scott. 
IRRECLA'IMABLE, adj. Not to be reclaimed; not 
to be changed to the better.—As for obftinate, irreclaim¬ 
able, profeffed enemies, we mull expeft their calumnies 
will continue. AddiJ'on. 
IRRECONCI'LABLE, adj. Not to he recalled to 
kindnefs; not to be appealed.—A weak unequal faflion 
may animate a government; but when it grows equal in 
ftrength, and irreconcilable by animolity, it cannot end 
without fome crifis. Temple. 
Wage eternal war. 
Irreconcilable to our grand foe. Milton. 
Not to be made confillent: it has with or to. —As fhe was 
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