Word Meanings - PEASWEEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.

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• LAPWORK
  Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
• GREENFINCH
  1. A European finch ; -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep. 2. The Texas sparrow , in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
• LAPWING
  A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the
• PEWIT
  The lapwing. The European black-headed, or laughing, gull . See under Laughing. The pewee.