Iris is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IRIS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give the form of a rainbow to
• (of an aperture, typically that of a lens) open or close in the manner of an iris or iris diaphragm.
• display iridescence
NOUN:
• a part of the eye
• the goddess of the rainbow, who acted as a messenger of the gods.
• The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
• The rainbow.
• An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
• The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
• A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
• See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
• plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
• muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye
• diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening
• part of the eye

Words related to IRIS

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How to use IRIS in a sentence

• There were saucers of white violets, and vases of iris and Washington lilies in Mrs.
• Why, what will it matter? Have I not lost all, except Iris? One must not be selfish.
• At the same time, Iris was quite free to manage her own affairs.
• Certainly this young schoolmaster did not know Iris, nor did he desire to discover what she was like, being wholly occupied with the study of himself.
• He came every day to the studio with Iris when she sat for her portrait.
• He was accompanied by Iris, by Lala Roy, and by Mr.
• Meanwhile the swift-footed Iris hastened down from heaven to the aid of Venus, whom she conducted to where Mars sat on the left of the battlefield, watching the conflict.
• Joyfully the aged Priam received the message of Iris, and he made haste to set out for the Grecian camp.
• Iris they bade to call Eilithyia apart from white-armed Hera, lest even then the words of Hera might turn her from her going.
• And now from Jove, with heavy tidings charged, Wind-footed Iris to the Trojans came.
• And my garden there shall be a vineyard, bordered with iris, and among the vines shall be a garden of olives, and under the olives there shall be the corn.
• Iris was laid on a couch in the messroom, and the steward summoned Mr.
• Even Iris was tempted forth by the continued sunshine.
• Iris did not know what was said, but the queer figures repeated to Coke seemed to be satisfactory.
• Philip could not imagine that they had detected him, but he feared lest Iris, in her agitation, might have moved.
• But, excepting some fruit, Iris had the wisdom to refuse other food just then.
• Iris, amid such novel surroundings, could not distinguish one noise from another.
• San Benavides, of course, was anxious to oblige Iris in this as in every other respect.
• The day wore, the sun went down, the starlit sky made beautiful a parched earth, but never a word in privacy did Iris exchange with her husband-to-be.
• All the more if the speckled iris has a dark ring to enclose it.
• They were large and well shaped, their colour a reddish brown, and if the iris was closely examined, it appeared to be composed of a great variety of tints.
• He was leant upon one knee behind a strip of iris that bordered a forest path, when suddenly he heard the crash of glass and heard a triumphant yell from the mob.
• As her hand rested upon the gate, a guard stepped from behind a bower of iris and gently opened it for her.
• I was looking anxiously for some iris roots I planted here, close to this reservoir, and which some one has trampled upon this morning.
• When present, we love, and when absent agree, I think not of Iris, nor Iris of me.
• Iris hurried away to tell her father, the great Zeus, of her loss.
• A breeze came in softly, touching her cheek like the wing of a moth and stirring the iris in a bowl by the window.
• While they went, Hera sent to Troy Iris, her messenger, in the guise of the fairest daughter of Priam.
• A circle, an inch in diameter, made of charcoal, formed an iris to a pupil, cut round and large, through the flannel.

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