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Word Meanings - RACKET-TAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • SPATULATE
    Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • 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
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • RACKETY
    Making a tumultuous noise.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • 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
  • RACKET
    is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net ; or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. raha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, 1. A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together,
  • RACKET-TAIL
    Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket- shaped.
  • SHAPOO
    The oörial.
  • FEATHERSTITCH
    A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • RACKETT
    An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
  • MISHAPPEN
    To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
  • SPINDLE-SHAPED
    Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
  • DIAMOND-SHAPED
    Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
  • STRAP-SHAPED
    Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
  • AWL-SHAPED
    Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • SWORD-SHAPED
    Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
  • FIDDLE-SHAPED
    Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • PEAR-SHAPED
    Of the form of a pear.
  • EGG-SHAPED
    Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.
  • LATH-SHAPED
    Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.

 

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