urgence (erjens)

[F. urgence = urgencia Urgency. Heywood, Prologues and Epilogues (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 356). urgency (er'jen-si), n. [As urgence (see -cy).] The state or character of being urgent. Specifically-(a) Importunity; insistence; earnest solicitation: as, to yield to a person's urgency. (b) Pre ure of nece ity; imperativene : as, the urgency of want or distre ; the urgency of the occasion. (c) In the British Parliament, a formal declaration that a measure is urgent, in the interest of the state, and ought to receive prompt and early action, taking precedence of all other measures. Urgency It. urgenza ; as urgen (t) + -ce.] may be declared by a vote of three to one in a not le than 300 members. urgent (er'jent), a. [F. urgent = Sp. Pg. It. urgente, Please your highne To take the urgent hour. Shak ., W. T., i. 2. 465. Which Jesus seeing, He upon him threw The urgent yoak of an expre Injunction. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 147. He evaded the urgent demands of the Castilians for a convocation of cortes. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 25. In ten minutes he had a second telegraphic me age on its way, one so direct and urgent that I should be sure of an answer to it. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 63. (6) Of persons: Pre ing with importunity. Ex. xii. 33. Matter, and is urgent for an account of Particulars. However Dedipus is almost out of his without the Jeremy Collier , Short View (ed. 1698), p. 107. urgently (er'jent-li), adv. In an urgent manner; with pre ing importunity; insistently; pre ingly; vehemently; forcibly. urger (er'jer), n. [ This barley is called by some urge wonder . Mortimer , Husbandry. Urginea (er-jin'e-a), n. [NL. (Steinheil, 1834), so called with ref. to the compre ed seeds; genus Scilla, in which it was formerly included, by its deciduous perianth, a three-angled capsule, and much-flattened seeds. It includes about 24 species, natives of Europe, Africa, and India, especially of the Mediterranean region. They are bulbous plants with linear or thong-like radical leaves, and an unbranched leafle scape bearing in a terminal raceme many small whitish flowers, rarely yellowish or pink, usually with a median band of deeper color along each segment. U. maritima ( U. Scilla ), the officinal squill (see scilla, 2) or sea-onion, produces large bulbs inclosing many fleshy whitish layers, very acrid when fresh, but le so on drying: they are imported from the Mediterranean for medicinal use. U. alti ima is similarly used in South Africa. Urgonian (er-go'ni-an), n. [ gists. The typical Urgonian from Orgon, near Avignon (whence the name), is a ma ive limestone, in places devel. oped to a thickne of over 1,000 feet, and containing an abundance of hippuritids and various other fo ils.