Word Meanings - WHITEBELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The American widgeon, or baldpate. The prairie chicken.

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• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• BALDPATE
  The American widgeon . (more info) 1. A baldheaded person. Shak.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• WIDGEON
  Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• PRAIRIE
  1. An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• BALDPATE; BALDPATED
  Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• CHICKEN-HEARTED
  Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.
• CHICKEN
  1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence
• PRAIRIE STATE
  Illinois; -- a nickname.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• CHICKEN POX
  A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
• WATER CHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.
• PAN-AMERICAN
  Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
  various American states; esp.: One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the
• SEA WIDGEON
  The scaup duck. The pintail duck.
• PAN-AMERICANISM
  The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.