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Gairish/ness :: Gairish/ness (n.) Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness..

Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..

Seg :: Seg (n.) The gladen, and other species of Iris..

Quirister :: Quirister (n.) A chorister. See Chorister.

Rapparee :: Rapparee (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary..

Osiris :: Osiris (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis..

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.

Albino :: Albino (n.) A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll..

Iritis :: Iritis (n.) An inflammation of the iris of the eye.

Irishman :: Irishman (n.) A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian.

Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..

Brehon :: Brehon (n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.

Fading :: Fading (n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song..

Poteen :: Poteen (n.) Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry..

Water Flag :: Water flag () A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.

Memoirist :: Memoirist (n.) A writer of memoirs.

Cornea :: Cornea (n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Iridian :: Iridian (a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow.

Whall :: Whall (n.) A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.

Irishry :: Irishry (n.) The Celtic people of Ireland.

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