Word Meanings - AVICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rearing and care of birds.

Related words: (words related to AVICULTURE)

• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• REARMOST
  Farthest in the rear; last.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• REARER
  One he, or that which, rears.
• REARWARD
  The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively. Shak.
• REARRANGE
  To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.
• REARDORSE; REARDOSS
  A reredos.
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• REAR
  Early; soon. Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear! Gay.
• REARGUE
  To argue anew or again.
• REARRANGEMENT
  The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• DREAR
  Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
• OVEREARNEST
  Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
• AREAR
  To raise; to set up; to stir up.
• PREARM
  To forearm.
• UPREAR
  To raise; to erect. Byron.
• FOREARM
  To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.
• DREARINESS
  1. Sorrow; wretchedness. 2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
• ARREARAGE
  That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.
• DREARING
  Sorrow. Spenser.
• DREARY
  dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan 1. Sorrowful; distressful. " Dreary shrieks." Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden.
• DREARILY
  Gloomily; dismally.