资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Scurrit \Scur"rit\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
the lesser tern ({Sterna minuta}). [Prov. Eng.]
2. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in
contempt.
This weak and writhled shrimp. --Shak.
{Opossum shrimp}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Opossum}.
{Spector shrimp}, or {Skeleton shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), any
slender amphipod crustacean of the genus {Caprella} and
allied genera. See Illust. under {L[ae]modopoda}.
{Shrimp catcher} (Zo["o]l.), the little tern ({Sterna
minuta}).
{Shrimp net}, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net
dragged over the fishing ground.
Fairy \Fair"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden.
{Fairy bird} (Zo["o]l.), the Euoropean little tern ({Sterna
minuta}); -- called also {sea swallow}, and {hooded tern}.
{Fairy bluebird}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Bluebird}.
{Fairy martin} (Zo["o]l.), a European swallow ({Hirrundo
ariel}) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on
overhanging cliffs.
{Fairy} {rings or circles}, the circles formed in grassy
lawns by certain fungi (as {Marasmius Oreades}), formerly
supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances.
{Fairy shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), a European fresh-water phyllopod
crustacean ({Chirocephalus diaphanus}); -- so called from
its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions.
The name is sometimes applied to similar American species.
{Fairy stone} (Paleon.), an echinite.