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

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

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.

Planxty :: Planxty (n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character..

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants..

Anglo- :: Anglo- () A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish..

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

Disestablishment :: Disestablishment (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament..

Brogue :: Brogue (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.

Irishism :: Irishism (n.) A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.

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

Banshie :: Banshie (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house..

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

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..

Swaddling :: Swaddler (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

Bogtrotter :: Bogtrotter (n.) One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

Fairish :: Fairish (a.) Tolerably fair.

Bandle :: Bandle (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.

Gairish :: Gairish (n.) Alt. of Gairish/nes.

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