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.
URCHIN
Ur"chin, a.
Defn: Rough; pricking; piercing. [R.] "Helping all urchin blasts."
Milton.
URCHON
Ur"chon, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The urchin, or hedgehog.
URDU
Ur"du, n. Etym: [Hind. urdu.]
Defn: The language more generally called Hindoostanee.
URE Ure, n. Etym: [OE. ure, OF. oevre, ovre, ouvre, work, F. oeuvre, L. opera. See Opera, Operate, and cf. Inure, Manure.]