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The state or quality of being irretrievable.

In an irretrievable manner.

Not to be returned.

An ischuretic medicine.

us base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.

A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.

A kind of loaded die. [Obs.]

A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.

A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

Typhus fever.

A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.

An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.

A hare in the first year of its age.

One who makes a libretto.

A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.

over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.

herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.…

A Masorite. [Written also Masorete, and Massorete.]