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Pyrenees chamois
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izard
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Word definitions for izard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Izard \Iz"ard\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncommon English) The Pyrenean chamois.
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 13249 Housing Units (2000): 6591 Land area (2000): 580.683650 sq. miles (1503.963686 sq. km) Water area (2000): 3.336129 sq. miles (8.640533 sq. km) Total area (2000): 584.019779 sq. miles (1512.604219 sq. km) Located within: Arkansas ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Izard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George Izard (1776–1828), general in the United States Army during the War of 1812 and governor of the Arkansas Territory Carroll Izard (born 1924), an American psychologist known for his contributions ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chamois-like antelope of the Pyrenees, 1791, from French isard , Gascon isart , "perhaps of Iberian origin," or [Klein] from Basque (which has izzara "star").
Usage examples of izard.
At a little distance, was discovered a rude and dangerous passage, formed by an enormous pine, which, thrown across the chasm, united the opposite precipices, and which had been felled probably by the hunter, to facilitate his chace of the izard, or the wolf.
Franklin called Izard a man of violent passions and assured Adams that neither Lee nor Izard was liked by the French.
For their part, Lee and Izard were quick to assure Adams that Franklin was beneath contempt, expressing their views with a vehemence that astonished Adams as much as their choice of words.
But after several weeks at Passy, living together in close quarters, accompanying Franklin on his social rounds, observing the daily routine and how things were being run, Adams began to see another man than the idolized sage who, if not the villain portrayed by Lee and Izard, nonetheless gave Adams pause.
Before him, seated in a semicircle, were most of the newly elected members of the Senate, a number of whom he knew from times past, including Langdon, Ellsworth, Richard Henry Lee, Ralph Izard of South Carolina, Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, and Tristram Dalton of Massachusetts, who had been a classmate at Harvard.
I witnessed the wooing of Barny Heyward, once the husband of the lovely Lucy Izard, now a widower and a bon parti.
Izard, a wealthy South Carolinian, was a devotee of the arts who with his wife had been living in Europe for several years.