English English Dictionary

Polite wit; facetiousness.

To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.

An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadae).

Of or pertaining to a city; urban.

Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.

Urceolate.

A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.

of Urceolus

Any urn-shaped organ of a plant.

A hedgehog.

A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.

Rough; pricking; piercing.

The urchin, or hedgehog.

The language more generally called Hindustanee.

The urus.

Use; practice; exercise.

To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.