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Word Meanings - PASSERES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds , together with many other small perching birds.

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  • SINGLE-BREASTED
    Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • SINGLY
    1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
  • SING-SING
    The kob.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SINGULAR
    Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
  • SINGLE
    1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from
  • SINGLE-ACTING
    Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
  • PERCHANCE
    By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
  • SINGSTER
    A songstress. Wyclif.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • SINGLE-HANDED
    Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
  • SINGLE-HEARTED
    Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
  • SINGHALESE
    See CINGALESE
  • OTHER
    andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
  • SINGINGLY
    With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North .
  • SINGE
    A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SINGULT
    A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. Spenser. W. Browne.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • MINNESINGER
    A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
  • LOSINGLY
    In a manner to incur loss.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • DECREASING
    Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
  • PHASING CURRENT
    The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • CHASING
    The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
  • NEESING
    Sneezing. "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.

 

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