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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.]

r traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

A bacterial vaccine.

The act of one who badgers.

A train of artillery for siege operations.

1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

Beery condition.

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of…

Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.