A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.
Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.
Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.
Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.
Alternative letter-case form of ISIS.
The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.
Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.
[…] the numerous families of coral, which, under the form of tubular, starry, or stony stems, are denominated tubipores, madrepores, and isises.
Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).
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