Antirenter :: Antirenter (n.) One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.

Direness :: Direness (n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

Eirenarch :: Eirenarch (n.) A justice of the peace; irenarch.

Eirenic :: Eirenic (a.) Pacific. See Irenic.

Entireness :: Entireness (n.) The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge..

Entireness :: Entireness (n.) Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.

Entireness :: Entireness (n.) Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.

Entireness :: Entireness (pl. ) of Entiret.

Hairen :: Hairen (a.) Hairy.

Inquirent :: Inquirent (a.) Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning.

Irenarch :: Irenarch (n.) An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace.

Irenic :: Irenic (a.) Alt. of Irenica.

Irenical :: Irenical (a.) Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful.

Irenicon :: Irenicon (n.) A proposition or device for securing peace, especially in the church..

Irenics :: Irenics (n.) That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology.

Lepidosiren :: Lepidosiren (n.) An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko..

Sempervirent :: Sempervirent (a.) Always fresh; evergreen.

Siren :: Siren (n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An enticing, dangerous woman..

Siren :: Siren (n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive.

Siren :: Siren (n.) A mermaid.

Siren :: Siren (n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Siren :: Siren (a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song..

Sirene :: Sirene (n.) See Siren, 6..

Sirenia :: Sirenia (n. pl.) An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera..

Sirenian :: Sirenian (n.) Any species of Sirenia.

Sirenical :: Sirenical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive..

Sirenize :: Sirenize (v. i.) To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

Virent :: Virent (a.) Green; not withered.

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