01 n. A hedgehog.
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A hedgehog.(Zool.)
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A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
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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.” — W. Howitt.“You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband?” — Goldsmith.
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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.
Phrases & compounds
Urchin fish —
a diodon.