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r who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

f a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or perta…

is which he avouches does appear. Shak. Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser.

An Irish measure of two feet in length.

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

An Irish serving woman or girl. [Colloq.]

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

An ancient Irish or Scotch judge. Brehon laws, the ancient Irish laws, -- unwritten, like the common law of England. They were abolished by statute of Edward III.

A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. Lloyd.

upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

rplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

A secret society of Irish Fenians founded in Philadelphia in 1881.

A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.