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Making irps. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body. [Obs.] Smirks and irps and all affected humors. B. Jonson .

A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect. "The chirp of flitting bird." Bryant.

One who chirps, or is cheerful.

Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

In a chirping manner.

To extirpate. [Obs.] It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar. Shak .

Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Evelyn.

root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne.

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Extirpative.

Extirpator. [Obs.] Bacon.

A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.

The Indian ferret.

Stock; race; family. [Obs.] Bacon.

The breeding of special stocks or races.

Stock; race; family. Blackstone.