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An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

The sea holly. See Eryngo.

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified. [Written also Erinnys.]

A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europæus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon…

To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate. Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino. Dr. H. More.

My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. "Erin mavournin." Campbell.

e from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. -- Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina). -- New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.

oöl.), a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.