Word Meanings - GODWIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidæ. The European black-tailed godwit , the American marbled godwit , the Hudsonian godwit , and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• BILLIARDS
  A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• BILLON
  An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.
• BILLINGSGATE
  1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language. 2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• TAILRACE
  The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. (more info) 1. See Race, n., 6.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• BILLETHEAD
  A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
• BILLFISH
  A name applied to several distinct fishes: The garfish and allied species. The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast . The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. The American fresh-water
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• BLACK-JACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
  An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• SNIPEBILL
  1. A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings. 2. A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• TORSIBILLTY
  The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.