Word Meanings - BIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. 3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. 4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of
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A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. 3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. 4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse , a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite , a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird of passage, a migratory bird. -- Bird spider , a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds. -- Bird tick , a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged. (more info) young bird. 1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal . That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds of the aier have nestes. Tyndale .
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- BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - FEATHERNESS
The state or condition of being feathery. - SHALLOP
A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails. - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - FEATHER-FEW
Feverfew. - FEATHER-VEINED
Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - FEATHER-FOIL
An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves. - ARABIAN
Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak. - MAIDENLINESS
The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness. - TARRY
Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar. - PROVIDENCE
A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in - PHENIX
A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality. - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - MAIDEN
fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. - PROVIDORE
One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe. - BLOODINESS
1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland. - HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - INVERTEBRATE
Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n. - PINFEATHERED
Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed. - SEA FEATHER
Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.