Thesaurus: urchin

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1. n. A hedgehog.
2. n. A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
3. n. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
4. n. A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
5. 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.
6. a. Rough; pricking; piercing.
7. n. poor and often mischievous city child
8. 1. (Zoöl.) A hedgehog. 2. (Zoöl.) 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. W. Howitt. You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband Goldsmith. 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 (Zoöl.), a diodon. Rough; pricking; piercing. [R.] "Helping all urchin blasts." Milton.
9. n:100 n. poor and often mischievous city child