Word Meanings - HOMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

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• ABILITY
  The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• DISTANCE
  1. To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller. 2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.
• PIGEONHOLE
  A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• PIGEONFOOT
  The dove's-foot geranium .
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• PIGEONRY
  A place for pigeons; a dovecote.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• PIGEONTOED
  Having the toes turned in.
• REMARKABLE
  Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary. 'T is remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say. Prior. There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon. Shak. Syn.
• RETURN
  1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser. 2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money. 3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord
• RETURNABLE
  Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court. (more info) 1. Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
• PIGEONWING
  1. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it. 2. An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped. 3. A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut
• PIGEON-LIVERED
  Pigeon-hearted.
• CARRIER
  That which drives or carries; as: A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge
• PIGEON
  Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. Note: The common domestic pigeon, or dove, was derived from the Old World rock pigeon . It has given rise to numerous very remarkable varieties, such
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• EQUABILITY
  The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
• DEFLAGRABILITY
  The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEABILITY
  Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
• INEVITABILITY
  Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
• EFFUMABILITY
  The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TAMABILITY
  The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
• INSOCIABILITY
  The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• INHERITABILITY
  The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
• MUTABILITY
  The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.