Word Meanings - EXCREATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. Cockeram.

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• HAWKED
  Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• SPITTLY
  Like spittle; slimy.
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• HAWK MOTH
  Any moth of the family Sphingidæ, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis.
• HAWKEYE STATE
  Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin.
• SPITTER
  One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
• HAWK-EYED
  Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning.
• SPITTED
  1. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit. 2. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. Bacon.
• THROATWORT
  A plant formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.
• HAWKBIT
  The fall dandelion .
• THROATY
  Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• SPITTOON
  A spitbox; a cuspidor.
• SPITTLE
  See JONSON
• THROAT
  The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. That end of a gaff which is next the mast. The angle where
• THROATING
  A drip, or drip molding.
• HAWK
  One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidæ. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade
• THROATBAND
  See THROATLATCH
• BLUETHROAT
  A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• MOHAWK
  One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• HOVER-HAWK
  The kestrel.
• DORHAWK
  The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. Booth.
• FISHHAWK
  The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
• JASHAWK
  A young hawk. Booth.
• LICK-SPITTLE
  An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.
• GOSHAWK
  Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European and the American are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk is pure white.
• SEA HAWK
  A jager gull.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• RUBYTHROAT
  Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the