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Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. [Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader.]

Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.

A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

The sea bream. [Prov. Eng. or Irish] Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang] W. C. Russell.

Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish. -- n.

An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. Todd.

The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

plumes. Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleveland.

Of or pertaining to the iris. "Irian nerves." Dunglison.

Irishism. [R.] Jeffrey.

embling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceæ), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others.

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors. Whewell.

The act or process of cutting out a portion of the iris in order to form an artificial pupil.

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow.

Of or pertaining to the iris of the eye.

An inflammation of the iris of the eye.

d by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.

A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.

One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia. [Spelt also Caffre.] Kaffir corn (Bot.), a Cape Colony name for Indian millet.