Word Meanings - NINE-KILLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The northern butcher bird.

BUTCHERING
1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
NORTHERNMOST
Farthest north.
BUTCHER'S BROOM
A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
NORTHERN
1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
BUTCHERLY
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.
BUTCHERLINESS
Butchery quality.
BUTCHER
orig., slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; 1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. 2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with
NORTHERNER
1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner.
NORTHERNLY
Northerly. Hakewill.
BUTCHERY
1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like