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The sordid friar bird of Australia .

SORDIDNESS
The quality or state of being sordid.
SORDID
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed
SORDIDLY
Sordidness.
FRIARLY
Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.
FRIAR
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. Augustines. Dominicans or Black Friars. White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
FRIARY
Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. Camden.
AUSTRALIAN
Of or pertaining to Australia. -- n.
CURTAL FRIAR
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.
BLACK FRIAR
A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
DISFRIAR
To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.
WHITE FRIAR
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.