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Girder :: Girder (n.) One who girds; a satirist.

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

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

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

Shamrock :: Shamrock (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

Fairish :: Fairish (a.) Tolerably fair.

Satirist :: Satirist (n.) One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire..

Ogham :: Ogham (n.) A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc..

Hetairism :: Hetairism (n.) Alt. of Hetaris.

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..

Acre :: Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English..

Hiberno-celtic :: Hiberno-Celtic (n.) The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

Fenian :: Fenian (n.) A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland..

Dorsiventral :: Dorsiventral (a.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral..

Hibernianism :: Hibernianism (n.) An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.

Orris :: Orris (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.

Irian :: Irian (a.) Of or pertaining to the iris.

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

Gladiate :: Gladiate (a.) Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus..

Irideous :: Irideous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceae), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others..

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