Irish

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to Ireland or its people, language, or culture.
2. n. The people of Ireland.
3. n. See Irish Gaelic.
4. n. See Irish English.
5. n. Informal Fieriness of temper or passion; high spirit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining to Ireland, or to the people of Ireland, an island lying west of Great Britain and forming part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
2. Pertaining to the Celtic inhabitants (the Gaels) of Scotland; Erse.
3. Irish embroidery of any sort.
4. n. plural The inhabitants of Ireland. The aboriginal Celtic race of Ireland. See Celt.
5. n. The language of the native Celtic race in Ireland. It is in age and philological value the most important language of the Celtic family, though its antiquity and importance have been much exaggerated by tradition and patriotism. The alphabet is an adaptation of the Latin. As heretofore printed, the letters, like the socalled Anglo-Saxon letters, are usually made to resemble a conventionalized form of the Latin alphabet in use in Britain in the early middle ages. Gaelic is a comparatively recent form of the Irish spoken by the Celts of Scotland. It differ but slightly from the Irish of the same age. Modern Irish is greatly corrupted in pronunciation, as compared with the Old Irish; but it retains in great part the old orthography. As a living speech it is fast going out of use.
6. n. English as spoken by natives of Ireland, with characteristic peculiarities (the “Irish brogue”). In an extreme form (“broad Irish”) English Irish has some Celtic features; but some peculiarities, for example baste, spake, for beast, speak, etc., are merely former English uses retained in Ireland but changed in England.
7. n. An old game similar to backgammon, but more complicated. Halliwell. Compare after game at Irish, under after-game.
8. n. Abbreviated Irish
9. Wrathful; choleric.

Wiktionary

1. n. The Goidelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
2. n. as plural The Irish people.
3. n. obsolete A board game of the tables family.
4. n. US Temper; anger, passion.
5. n. whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
6. adj. Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
7. adj. Pertaining to the Irish language.
8. adj. Nonsensical, daft or complex.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.
2. n. The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.
3. n. The language of the Irish; also called Irish Gaelic or the Hiberno-Celtic.
4. n. An old game resembling backgammon.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the Celtic language of Ireland
2. n. people of Ireland or of Irish extraction
3. n. whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley
4. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people