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Goemin :: Goemin (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

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..

Iris :: Iris (n.) The rainbow.

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.

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..

Megaceros :: Megaceros (n.) The Irish elk.

Hibernian :: Hibernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish..

Synecphonesis :: Synechia (n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens..

Paddy :: Paddy (n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

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

Iriscope :: Iriscope (n.) A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.

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

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

Irishmen :: Irishmen (pl. ) of Irishma.

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..

Kafir :: Kafir (n.) One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.

Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A satirist.

Iris :: Iris (n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2..

Spalpeen :: Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.

Empiristic :: Empiristic (a.) Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic..

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