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Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

14- 30). He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes. Dryden. His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him generally popular. Macaulay.

An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt. Johnson.

ker. The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits. South. Irish touchstone (Min.), basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's Causeway.

A native or inhabitant of Troy. Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed. Finnegan's Wake (Irish song)

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. Bacon.

received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored. Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.

The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. "Blithe as shepherd at a wake." Cowper. Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth.

A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.

A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye. [Written also whaul.]

Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses. "Whally eyes." Spenser.

nees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog. (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves. (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog. -- Wolf eel (Zoöl.), a wolf fish. -- Wolf fish (Zoöl.), any one of several species…