Word Meanings - FRINGILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

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• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• BRAMBLING
  The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• CONICALITY
  Conicalness.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• BRAMBLY
  Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.