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- Ionic - a. - Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
- Ionic - a. - Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
- Ionic - a. - Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
- Ionic - n. - A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
- Ionic - n. - A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
- Ionic - n. - The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
- Ionic - n. - Ionic type.
- Modillion - n. - The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.
- Fascia - n. - A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.
- Horn - n. - The Ionic volute.
- Bolster - n. - The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- Dialect - n. - The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
- Ionic - n. - The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
- Scamillus - n. - A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
- Supercolumniation - n. - The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.
- Ionic - n. - A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
- Coussinet - n. - That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
- Ionic - a. - Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
- Mode - n. - The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
- Composite - v. t. - Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.