derringer (derinjer)

[After the inventor, an American gunsmith.] A short-barreled pistol of large caliber, very efficient at short range. derry (der'i). [Repr. Ir. doire, an oak-wood, The ancient name of London derry was Derrycalgagh, the oak-wood of Calgach. After St. Columba erected his monastery there, in 546, it was called Derry -Columkille, until James I. granted it to a company of London merchants, who named it London derry. Scotsman (newspaper). dero trema to us (der-ō-trem'a-tus), a. [Dero chorus in old songs. tremata + -ous .] Pertaining Pertaining to or having the dertht, n. An obsolete form of dearth . characters of the Derotremata.