Word Meanings - REDTHROAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small Australian singing bird . The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

Related words: (words related to REDTHROAT)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SINGLY
  1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• SING-SING
  The kob.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• SINGSTER
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• CENTERING
  See 6
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• SINGHALESE
  See CINGALESE
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• SINGINGLY
  With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North .
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SINGULT
  A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. Spenser. W. Browne.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• BLUETHROAT
  A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• DECREASING
  Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• CHASING
  The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• NEESING
  Sneezing. "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• DISGUISING
  A masque or masquerade.