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Thule :: Thule (n.) The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule..

Inch :: Inch (n.) An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc..

Sardinian :: Sardinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia..

Back :: Back (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village..

Insularity :: Insularity (n.) The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.

Fijian :: Fijian (n.) A native of the Fiji islands.

Malay :: Malay (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Nutmeg :: Nutmeg (n.) The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics..

Archipelago :: Archipelago (n.) Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

Proa :: Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known..

Gyrfalcon :: Gyrfalcon (n.) One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter..

Buddhism :: Buddhism (n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, the awakened or enlightened, in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest

Lesbian :: Lesbian (a.) Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago..

Sheathbill :: Sheathbill (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas..

Tenrec :: Tenrec (n.) A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac..

Islet :: Islet (n.) A little island.

Kurilian :: Kurilian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands.

Orcadian :: Orcadian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.

Eyet :: Eyet (n.) An island. See Eyot.

Aleutic :: Aleutic (a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands..

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