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- English Word Urchin Definition A hedgehog.
- English Word Urchin Definition A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
- English Word Urchin Definition A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
- English Word Urchin Definition A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
- English Word Urchin Definition 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.
- English Word Urchin Definition Rough; pricking; piercing.
- English Word Urchon Definition The urchin, or hedgehog.
- English Word Urdu Definition The language more generally called Hindustanee.
- English Word Ure Definition The urus.
- English Word Ure Definition Use; practice; exercise.
- English Word Ure Definition To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
- English Word Urea Definition A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.
- English Word Ureal Definition Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.
- English Word Ureameter Definition An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.
- English Word Urechitin Definition A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.
- English Word Urechitoxin Definition A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.
- English Word Uredo Definition One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement.
- English Word Uredo Definition Nettle rash. See Urticaria.
- English Word Uredospore Definition The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heter/cious, etc.
- English Word Ureide Definition Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides.