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- Urchin - n. - A hedgehog.
- Urchin - n. - A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
- Urchin - n. - A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
- Urchin - n. - A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
- Urchin - 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.
- Urchin - a. - Rough; pricking; piercing.
- Turban-shell - n. - A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
- Galerite - n. - A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
- Piper - n. - A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
- Unkempt - a. - Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
- Echinus - n. - A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
- Tow-head - n. - An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.