urticate

i. ort. [URTICA.] A. In trans.: To act so as to annoy or irritate. "He not only urticates , he hurts."-G. A. Sala: America Revisited , i. 271. B. Trans.: To annoy, to irritate. "While he urticates you, he utters a low crooning murmur."-G. A. Sala: America Revisited , i. 270. ur-ti-cat-ing, pr . par . or adject . [URTICATE.] Stinging like a nettle; pertaining to urtication. urticating-cells, s . pl . Thread-cells. [CNIDE.] ûr-ti-ca-tion, s. [Lat. urtica a nettle.] The stinging of nettles, or a similar stinging; the whipping of a benumbed or paralytic limb with nettles to restore its feeling. u-rû bû, s. [Native name.] Ornithology: Cathartes iota (or atrata ), from the Southern States of the Union and Central South America. It is often confounded with the Turkey buzzard (q. v.), from which, however, it may be readily distinguished by the absence of the ring of feathers round the throat. General color black; head and naked part of neck bluish-black with warts and a few hair-like feathers. Called also Black Vulture and Zopilote. ür'-ŭs, s. [Lat. See def.] Zool. & Palæont .: A kind of ox, the Bos urus of Cæsar (De Bello Gallico , vi. 28), now called Bos primi genius . It differs from the Aurochs (q. v.) in its larger size, the double curvature of its horns, . It existed from the Pleistocene almost to historic times, always diminishing in size, and Prof. Boyd Dawkins thinks it may not be specifically distinct from Bos taurus. (Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., xxiii. 392-401.) [Bos, Ox, REEM.] "It proves that the urus was living in Britain as late as the Bronze Age." - Dawkins : Early Man in Britain , ch. x. û-ru-shi, s . [See def.] The Japanese name of the varnish or lacquer tree, Rhus vernix , or verni cifera . ür-us-ite, s. [After the Urus plateau, Tscheleken Island, Caspian Sea; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min .: A hydrated sulphate of soda and sesquioxide of iron, probably related to sider on a trite (q. v.), but needing further examination. ur-vą, s. [Mod. Lat., from native name.] Zool .: Crab-Mungoos; a sub-genus of Herpestes, with one species, Urva cancrivora , from India. It is nearly three feet in length, of which the tail occupies about a third. A narrow stripe of white hairs runs from the shoulders, contrasting very decidedly with the grayish-brown tint of the fur; there are some very faintly marked darker bars on the body, and the tail is marked with three or four faint transverse bars; feet and legs of uniform dark tint. Its habits are aquatic, and it feeds on frogs and crabs.