Word Meanings - LIMICOLAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.

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• SNIPEBILL
  1. A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings. 2. A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• SNIPE
  Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidæ, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. Note: The common, or whole, snipe and the great, or double, snipe , are the most important European species.
• GRALLAE
  An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACIVE
  Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. Thackeray.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• CURLEW
  A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. Note: The common European curlew is N. arquatus. The long-billed (N. longirostris), the Hudsonian , and the Eskimo curlew (N. borealis, are American species. The
• GRALLATORIAL; GRALLATORY
  Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.
• GRALLOCH
  Offal of a deer. -- v. t.
• GRALLATORES
  See GRALLæ
• GRALLINE
  Of or pertaining to the Grallæ.
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• SNIPEFISH
  The bellows fish. A long, slender deep-sea fish with a slender beak.
• SHORE
  imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
• JACKSNIPE
  A small European snipe ; -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe. A small American sandpiper ; -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• INTEGRALLY
  In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.
• GUTTERSNIPE
  A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. A curbstone broker.
• LARAMIE GROUP
  An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character.
• POTSDAM GROUP
  A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.