Irony

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

II. Irony ·adj Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

III. Irony ·noun Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an Antagonist.

IV. Irony ·noun 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.