"Planxty" is a word in ENGLISH
An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a
mournful character.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or …
Read the complete definitionA piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English …
Read the complete definitionA combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish.
Read the complete definitionAn Irish measure of two feet in length.
Read the complete definitionA supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one …
Read the complete definitionAn Irish serving woman or girl.
Read the complete definitionOne who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
Read the complete definitionA company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living …
Read the complete definitionAn ancient Irish or Scotch judge.
Read the complete definitionIn old Irish law. A judge. 1 Bl. Comm. 100. Brehons, (breitkeamhuin,) judges
Read the complete definitionA dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.
Read the complete definitionA small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
Read the complete definitionor CHAMBER DEACONS. In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; …
Read the complete definitionIn Irish practice. The pay-ment of wages in land, the rent being work-ed out in labor at a money valuation, …
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support …
Read the complete definitionA term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompense which a murderer was judicially con-demned to …
Read the complete definitionAn Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
Read the complete definitionA member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in …
Read the complete definitionA champion, hero, giant This word, in the plural, is generally used to signify invaders or foreign spoilers. The modern …
Read the complete definitionThe seas surrounding Eng-land. These were divided into the western, including the Scotch aud Irish; the North? ern, or North …
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