a county of the province of Munster in Ireland, bounded on the west by that of Limerick and Clare, on the east by the county of Kilkenny and Queen's County, on the south by the county of Waterford, and on the north and north-east by King's county and the territory of the ancient O'Carols. It extends about 42 miles in length. They are sometimes of a beautiful green, sometimes coal-black; and the most remarkable are those whose fore-legs, extraordinarily long, do not touch the ground, and are moveable like antennae. In this state of perfection, the tipula being provided with proper organs, apply themselves to the propagation of the species. Those same poor insects, who in the state of larvae have escaped the voraciousness of fishes, often become, in their progress through the air, a prey to equally merciless birds.