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 Is·land n.
 1. A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent.  Cf. Continent.
 2. Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
 3. Zool. See Isle, n., 2.
 Islands of the blessed Myth., islands supposed to lie in the Western Ocean, where the favorites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting joy.