urchins

[Ur·chin]

That young child dressed in dirty hand me downs and running rampant through city streets is an urchin. Street urchins, as they are commonly called, have a reputation for getting into trouble.

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A hedgehog.

Noun
poor and often mischievous city child


n.
A hedgehog.

n.
A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

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

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

n.
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.

a.
Rough; pricking; piercing.


Urchin

Ur"chin , n. [OE. urchon, irchon, a hedgehog, OF. ire&cced;on, eri&cced;on, herion, herichon, F. h'82risson, a derivative fr. L. ericius, from er a hedgehog, for her; akin to Gr. . Cf. Herisson.] 1. (Zo'94l.) A hedgehog. 2. (Zo'94l.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin. 3. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog. "We 'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies." Shak. 4. A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.
You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband?
5. 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. Knight. Urchin fish (Zo'94l.), a diodon.

Urchin

Ur"chin, a. Rough; pricking; piercing. [R.] "Helping all urchin blasts." Milton.

A hedgehog.

Rough; pricking; piercing.

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