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Leaves oppofite, difpofed croffwife, fmooth, entire, oval, 
ending in a long point, a(h-coloured underneath, with 
ruiTet-colourcd nerves; the largeft fourteen inches long, 
and leven wide; petiole cylindric, channelled, two inches 
long, fwelling at the bafe, with two wide, (harp, decidu¬ 
ous, ftipules. Flowers terminating in a large ltraight pa¬ 
nicle, the branches of which are oppofite and fubdivided, 
and come out from between two little fcales ; each branch- 
let has three flowers, of which that in the middle is fef- 
flle; calyx purplilh, that part which borders the germ 
yellow; tube of the corolla two inches long, bright red ; 
border yellow, covered on the in tide with hairs of the 
fame colour. Fruit a fucculent red berry, (or pome,) the 
fize of a cherry, fweet, and good to eat. The wood is 
bitter. A decoction of the leaves is ufed by the Creoles 
in fomentations. It is common in the ifland of Cayenne, 
and on the continent of Guiana, flowering and bearing- 
fruit great part of the year. 
I'SET, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Tobol 
near Yalutorovfk. 
I'SETSK, a town of Rufiia, in the government of To- 
bollk, on the Ifet; forty-four miles weft-fouth-weft of 
Yalutorovfk. 
IS'GAARD, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland, 
fituated on a peninfula in the Baltic: feven miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Aarhuus. 
ISGAU'R, Isgu'ria, or Iskuriah, anciently called 
Dio/curias and Se'oajlopolis ; a town of Mingrelia, on the 
eaft coalt of the Black Sea, with a road for fhips, tole¬ 
rably good in the fumrner. In 167a, it was burned down 
by the Abcas, who were invited by the prince of Min¬ 
grelia to affift him againft the Turks: 125 miles north- 
weft of Cotatis. Lat. 43. 18. N. ion.40. 32. E. 
IS'GEL, a town of the Tyrolefe: eight miles fouth- 
weft of Landeck. 
ISH, [xyc, Sax.] A termination added to an adjeftive 
to exprefs diminution, a fmall degree, or incipient ftate 
of any quality : as, bluifh, tending to blue ; brightijh, fome- 
what bright. It is like wife fometimes the termination of 
a gentile or poffeffive adjedtive; as, Swedi/h, Danijk, the 
Danijh territories, or territories of the Danes. It likewife 
notes participation of the qualities of the ftibftantive to 
which it is added; as , fool, foolijh ■, man, manijh-, rogue, 
roguijh. 
ISH, f. in Scots law, fignifies expiry. Thus we fay, 
The ifji of a leafe. It fignifies alfo to go out; thus we 
fay. Free ifh and entry, from and to any place. 
I'SHAD, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
I'SHAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISH'BAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISH'BAK, [Heb. exhaufted.] A man’s name. 
ISHBIBE'NOB, [Heb. one that blows.] The name of 
a giant 2 Sam. 
ISHBO'SHETH, or Is'baal, fon of Saul, and his fuc- 
ceffor. Abner, Saul’s kinfinan and general, contrived to 
have Ifhboiheth acknowledged king by the greater part 
of Ifrael, while David reigned at Hebron over Judah. 
Ifhbofheth refided at Mahanaim, beyond Jordan. He 
was forty-four years of age when he began to reign, and 
he reigned two years pretty peaceably. Afterwards his 
forces had fkirmifhes with thofe of David, wherein the 
former were defeated. Saul had a concubine whofe name 
was Rizpah : Abner was reproached by Ifhbofheth with 
having been too free with her. Abner, prpvoked at this, 
Iwore he would endeavour to transfer the crown from the 
houfe of Saul to David: but during the negociation he 
was treacheroufly killed by Joab. Ifhbofheth, informed 
of Abner’s death, loft courage; and all Ifrael fell into 
great diforder. Ifhbofheth, almoft at the fame time, was 
affaflinated in his own houfe by two captains of his troops, 
who, cutting off his head, came and prelented it to David 
at Hebron, thinking to receive a confiderable reward : 
but he commanded thefe two murderers to be killed, and 
their hands-and feet to be cut off and hung near the pool 
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at HebrotJj and the head of Ifhbofheth to be placed in 
Abner’s fepuichre at Hebron. With him ended the roy¬ 
alty of Saul’s family. See 2 Sam. ii. iii. iv. 
I'SHI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISHI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISHI'JAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISH'MA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISH'MAEL, the fon of Abraham by Hagar, Sarah’s 
handmaid, whom fhe had perfuaded her hufband to take 
to his bed when fhe defpaired of having any, iflue herfelf, 
in order that file might be a mother by proxy, according- 
to the cuftora of that age and country. Ifhmael was bom 
in the year 1910 B. C. He was conlidered by Abraham 
as the heir of all his wealth, till a fon was promiled to 
Sarah, and (lie proved at her advanced age the mother of 
Isaac. In the life of that patriarch we have feen that 
Sarah, who entertained fears for the fafety of her fon from 
the behaviour of Ifhmael, prevailed upon Abraham to 
dlfmifs Hagar and her fon to a diftant place. Though 
we are not informed what provifion Abraham made for 
Ifhmael, any more than for the fons which he after¬ 
wards had by Keturah, yet we may fairly conclude, that he 
directed him and his mother to repair to fome particular 
fituation, where they fhould be furnifhed with the means 
of lubliftence without interfering with Ifaac’s promifed 
inheritance. On their way thither, as they palled through^ 
part of the wildernefs of Beerflieba, their water became 
exhaufted, and Ifhmael, who had fainted through excef- 
five thirft, appeared ready to expire, when his mother was 
fupernaturally directed to a fpring, which enabled them 
to recruit their ftrength and purfue their journey. They 
went to the wildernefs of Paran, which was near to Ara¬ 
bia, where Ifhmael grew to manhood, and became an 
archer, or expert hunter and warrior. When he was of a 
proper age, his mother procured him a wife out of Egypt, 
by whom he had twelve ions, who proved the heads of fo 
many cliItindt Arabian tribes. We learn no further par¬ 
ticulars concerning Ifhmael from the facred writings, ex¬ 
cepting that he joined with his brother Ifaac in paying 
the laft tribute of relpeft to the remains of their father, 
and that he died at the age of one hundred and thirty- 
feven, or in the year 1773 B. C. In the xxth volume of 
the Ancient Univerfal Hiltory, the reader may meet with 
a learned and able Differtation upon the Independency of 
the Arabs, which very happily illuftrates the prediffioa 
(fee p. 392.) concerning the pofterity of Ifhmael. Gen. 
xvi.-xxv. 
ISH'MAELITES, the defcendants of Ifhmael; dwelling 
from Havila to the wildernefs of Sur, towards Egypt, and 
thus overfpreading Arabia Petrtea; and therefore jofephus 
calls Ifhmael the founder of the Arabs. 
ISHMAI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISHMAZ'AI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISHTAN, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISH'TOB, [Hebrew'.] A man’s name. 
ISH'UAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
ISH'UAI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IS'IA, f. Feftivals obferved in honour of Ills, which 
continued nine days. It was ufual to carry veffels full of 
wheat and barley, as the goddefs was fuppofed to be the 
firft who taught mankind the ufe of corn. Thefe fefti¬ 
vals were adopted by the Romans, among whom they foon 
degenerated into licentioufnefs. They were abolifhed by 
a decree of the fenate, A. U. C. 696. They were intro¬ 
duced again, about 200 years after, by Commodus. 
IS'IAC TA'BLE. See Isis, p.403. 
ISI'ACI, priefts of the goddefs Ills. Diofcorides tells 
11s, that they bore a branch of fea-wormwood in then- 
hands inftead of olive. They fang the praifes of the god¬ 
defs twice a-day, viz. at the rifing of the fun, when they 
opened her temple; after which they begged alms the reft 
of the day ; and, returning at night, repeated their orifons, 
and fhut up the temple. Such was the life and office of 
the ifiaci 3 they never covered their feet with any thing 
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