Word Meanings - PIGEONWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it. 2. An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped. 3. A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut

Additional info about word: PIGEONWING

1. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it. 2. An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped. 3. A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing. 4. A certain fancy figure in skating. 5. A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

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• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• EXECUTOR
  1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak. 2. An executioner. Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak. authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
• EXECUTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an executive.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• PIGEONHOLE
  A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• PIGEONFOOT
  The dove's-foot geranium .
• EXECUTIVE
  Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer,
• JUMPWELD
  See T
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• EXECUTIONER
  1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
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  A place for pigeons; a dovecote.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• FANCY
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• SHAPER
  1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool,
• SHAPELY
  1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
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• COUNTERJUMPER
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• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• COEXECUTOR
  A joint executor.
• MALEXECUTION
  Bad execution. D. Webster.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• AWL-SHAPED
  Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• OVERJUMP
  To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore. Marston.