Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
1Space and time not only affect but also are affected by everything that happens in the univ erse.
2I think he delighted, too, in shocking-givingresounding slaps on what Chaucer would quite simply call 'the bare erse.
3The Penguin Book of Hebrew erse (London, 1981), p-534-
4They were Hakon's English chaplains, and they could not understand his Erse.
5Has this language, older than Erse, older than Sanscrit, ever got translated?
6I asked one of the guides, who questioned her in Erse.
7She was dressed in tartan, and could speak nothing but Erse.
8He had by this time acquired a good deal of the Erse language.
9Yet all of our company who understood Erse, seemed charmed with the original.
10One of our guides asked her, in Erse, if a shilling was enough.
11To Sir David Dalrymple, April 4.-Erse Poetry; Gray's queries concerning Macpherson.
12She said, she taught Sir James M'Donald Erse, and would teach me soon.
13And a moment of hesitation and instant of animal Reading these sweet Erse words.
14I should say, the Erse are a very fine race.
15There is I think a kirk, in which only the Erse language is used.
16The men of Whole Erse lived in a permanent war.