urchin, urchon, urchone, irchon, urgin, yrcheon

& a. [O. Fr. ireçon, her içon, eric on; Fr. héri on a hedgehog, as if from a Lat. ericionem, acc us. of ericio, for ericius =a hedgehog; cogu. with Gr. chér a hedgehog.] *A. As substantive: *I. Ordinary Language: 1. A name given to the hedgehog. "By a curious caprice Hindi, when it uses Arabic words, is a umed to become a new language, and is called by a new name- Urdu ; but when Punjabi or Sindhi do the same, they are not so treated."-Beames: Comp. Gram. Aryan Lang ., 1. 39. B. As adj .: Pertaining to the language so called. *üre (1), s . [O. Fr. eure, euvre ; Fr.œuvre work. Cf. manure, inure.) Use, practice. "For in the time that thieving was in ure, The gentler fled to places more secure." John Taylor: Pennile Pilgrimage. *üre (2), s . [O. Fr. eûr =lot, chance, from Lat. augurium augury (q. v.).] Chance, destiny, fortune. "So pitously gan cry On his fortune and on ure also." Lydgate: Complaint of the Black Knight. üre (3), s. [URUS.) A wild bull; the urus. "The third kind is of them that are named ures."Goldinge: Cæsar, fol. 163. *üre, v . t . [URE (1), s .) To inure; to accustom by use or practice. ür-ě-a, s. (Latinized from root of urina =urine (q. v.).] NH2 Chem.: CH4N2O.=C=O. The chief organic con NH2 stituent of urine, first obtained in an impure state by Rouelle the younger, in 1799. It is readily obtained by evaporating urine to dryne on the water-bath and exhausting the residue with alcohol; or it may be prepared synthetically by the action of ammonia upon carbonic oxy chloride. From a pure aqueous solution it crystallizes in long, flattened prisms without terminal faces, is soluble in water and alcohol, insoluble in ether, melts at 120°, and decomposes at a higher temperature. The synthesis of urea, discovered by Wohler 2. A sea-urchin (q. v.). "The urchins of the sea called echini."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. ix., ch. xxx i. organic body being obtained by artificial means. *üred, a. [URE (2), s.] Fortunate. "In my body I was well ured ."-Chaucer: Dream. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, uredinaceӕ ür-e-din-ā-çe-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. uredo (q. v.), gen. uredin (is); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceœ .] Bot.: The same as CONIOMYCETES (q. v.). (Lindley.) ür-e-din-ě-1, subst. pl. [Lat. uredo, gen it. ure din(is); Lat. masc. pl. adj. suff. -ei.] Bot.: A section of Pucciniei. Pro to spores not septate, and disposed in regular sori, or the species have two kinds of fruit. Some alleged species are undoubtedly only the secondary state of other Fungals, but there are Uredine i which appear genuine. All were formerly included under Uredo (q. v.). u-rê-dō, 8. [Lat.=a blast or blight of plants; uro to burn.] Uredo Bot.: The typical genus of Uredine i (q. v.). Pro to spores brown or yellow, composed of several layers of cells, each containing a spore. circœæ is found on Enchanter's Nightshade, and U. confluens on Mercurial is perennis . ür-e-ide, s. [Eng. ure (a); ide ] Chem. (pl.): Compounds containing the elements of a urea-salt, minus water; thus alloxan is a monuride of mesoxalic acid, being a compound of that acid with one atom of urea minus 2H2O.