Trilicum repens.
Trilicum repens. (B. & H.) Cf. quicken, sb. 8.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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An obsolete Irish English name for the meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis, a small brown bird common on Irish moorland and grassland. The name is derived from Irish Gaelic and was used in older Irish natural history writing. Now entirely replaced by meadow pipit in standard usage.
(obsolete, Ireland) A bird, the meadow pipit.
Trifolium pratense, meadow trefoil (Ken.).
(UK) (), a fast-growing weedy annual plant cultivated in some places and a weed elsewhere.
Trifolium pratense. Abd., Per. (G.W.), Cld. QAM.)