Word Meanings - HAMMERKOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bird of the Heron family; the umber.

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• HERONSHAW
  A heron.
• 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
• UMBERY
  Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.
• UMBER
  A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not
• HERONSEW
  A heronshaw. Chaucer.
• HERONER
  A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.
• HERON
  Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron is remarkable for its directly ascending
• HERONRY
  A place where herons breed.
• LUMBERMAN
  One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• CUMBER
  To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would
• CLUMBER
  A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
• ACHERONTIC
  Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
• SLUMBERER
  One who slumbers; a sleeper.
• ACHERON
  A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• LUMBER STATE
  Maine; -- a nickname.
• UNENCUMBER
  To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
• PLUMBER
  One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
• SCUMBER
  To void excrement. Massinger.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.