Word Meanings - SWORDBILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A humming bird having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.

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• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HUMMEL
  To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• HUMMER
  A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.
• 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.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• HUMMOCKY
  Abounding in hummocks.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HUMMOCKING
  The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
• 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.
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• EXCEEDABLE
  Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• THUMMIE
  The chiff-chaff.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.