Isthmus

is'mus, n.; pi. -muses, -ez. (Geog.) A neck or narrow strip of lnnd by which 2 continents are connected, or Dy which a peninsula is united to the main land. It, it, pron. An impersonal or neuter pronoun, usually regarded as a demonstrative, corresponding to the masc. pron. he and the fem. she, and having the same plural, they. It is used, — as a demonstrative, pointing to that about to be stated or referring to that which is well known; or, as a substitute for a noun of neuter gender, or for general terms; or, as an indefinite nominative for an impersonal verb; or, as an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb.— Its, the po e ive of It. — Itself', the neuter reciprocal pronoun. Italian, T-taKy an, a. Of, or pert, to, Italy, its inhabitants, or their language. — n. A native or naturalized inhabitant of Italy: the language of, etc. — Italic, a. Relating to Italy, — applied esp. to a kind of type in which the letters slope toward the right, — dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about 1500. — n. {Print.) Type whose face slopes to the right; anything J. J, ja, the 10th letter of the Eng. alphabet, to which it has been added in modern days, the letter i being written formerly in words where j is now used: see I.