Definition of eric

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Eric (n.) A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.

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Carapato :: Carapato (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast..
Blackfeet :: Blackfeet (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers..
Number :: Number (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
Niagara Period :: Niagara period () A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology..
Snapper :: Snapper (n.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America..
Glyceric :: Glyceric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin..
Water Speedwell :: Water speedwell () A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
Perichordal :: Perichordal (a.) Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal..
Minnow :: Minnow (n.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys..
Savine :: Savine (n.) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana..
Choleric :: Choleric (a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
Desmodont :: Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire..
Octylene :: Octylene (n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids..
Brontotherium :: Brontotherium (n.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix..
Deathbird :: Deathbird (n.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
Lambdacism :: Lambdacism (n.) The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American..
Sphery :: Sphery (a.) Round; spherical; starlike.
Paramo :: Paramo (n.) A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift..
Catbird :: Catbird (n.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat..
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