Word Meanings - PRESSIROSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a tribe of wading birds including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.

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• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• WADMOL
  A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COMPRESSIVE
  Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
• WADDIE
  See WADDY
• WADER
  Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wades.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• WADDLE
  To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her
• WAD
  Woad.
• WADING
  a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. See Wader, 2.
• WADDLINGLY
  In a waddling manner.
• WADSET
  A kind of pledge or mortgage.
• WAD; WADD
  An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. Plumbago, or black lead.
• COMPRESSIBILITY
  The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
• WADDING
  1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. 2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
• COMPRESSION PROJECTILE
  A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and
• COMPRESSOR
  Anything which serves to compress; as: A muscle that compresses certain parts. An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• HOWADJI
  1. A traveler. 2. A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.
• TWADDY
  Idle trifling; twaddle.
• SWADDLER
  A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.
• INCOMPRESSIBILITY
  The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees.