Word Meanings - CORANACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Irish funeral cry , a dirge; comh with + ranaich a roaring,

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• DIRGEFUL
  Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
• ROARING FORTIES
  The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50º S.
• ROARER
  A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, roars. Specifically: A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.
• ROARING
  An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5. (more info) 1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person
• ROARINGLY
  In a roaring manner.
• IRISHISM
  A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.
• FUNERAL
  1. The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his
• DIRGE
  A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford. (more info) of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat. transl. of Psalm
• IRISH
  Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. See under Elk. -- Irish moss. Carrageen. A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white
• IRISHMAN
  A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian. Irishman's hurricane , a dead calm. -- Irishman's reef. See Irish reef, under Irish, a.
• ROAR
  1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. Spenser. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands,
• IRISHRY
  The Celtic people of Ireland. "The whole Irishry of rebels." Milton.
• IRISH AMERICAN
  A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person.
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• OUTROAR
  To exceed in roaring.
• INFUNERAL
  To inter with funeral rites; to bury. G. Fletcher.
• UPROAR
  Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
• BULL-ROARER
  A contrivance consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.
• PYROARSENATE
  A salt of pyroarsenic acid.
• PYROARSENIC
  Pertaining to or designating, an acid of arsenic analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
• GAIRISH; GAIRISHLY; GAIRISHNESS
  See GARISHNESS
• HYPEROARTIA
  An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.
• THYROARYTENOID
  Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.