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Iron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. -- n.

Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.

Containing two stones or nutlets.

See Ey, an egg.

The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted. -- Gyr"en*ceph"a*lous, a.

Having but a single stone or kernel.

A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe. Gray.

Same as Pyrena.

Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain. -- n.

A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.

See Siren. [R.]

corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer. -- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectioni…

One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

elope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

hee concentering all their precious beams. Milton. All is concentered in a life intense. Byren.

A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.

marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.