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   Irony (?), a. [From Iron.]
   
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   1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, “irony chains; irony particles”; -- In this sense iron is the more common term. [R.] Woodward.
   
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   2. Resembling iron in taste, hardness, or other physical property.
   
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   Irony (?), n. [L. ironia, Gr.  dissimulation, fr.  a dissembler in speech, fr.  to speak; perh. akin to E. word: cf. F. ironie.]
   
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   1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
   
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   2. A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.
   
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