1. (n.) A mischievous boy\.

2. (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

3. (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

4. (n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

5. (n.) 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.

6. (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

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