Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The leading and name-giving genus of birds of the family Irrisoridæ, founded by Lesson in 1831.
- noun [lowercase] Any bird of the genus Irrisor or family Irrisoridæ: as, the black irrisor; the Namaqua irrisor.
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He was _subdolus diabolicarum cogitationum faber_, and _irrisor et atheos_ to boot.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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