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A large edible fish of the family Cirrhitidæ, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. (more info) 1. One who sounds a trumpet. 2. One who proclaims,

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A large edible fish of the family Cirrhitidæ, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. (more info) 1. One who sounds a trumpet. 2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. These men are good trumpeters. Bacon. Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik. A variety of the domestic pigeon. An American swan which has a very loud note.

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• EDIBLENESS
  Suitableness for being eaten.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• TASMANIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically , in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. See the Note under Eucalyptus.
• TRUMPET
  A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• HIGHLY
  In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• TRUMPET-SHAPED
  Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
• TRUMPETWOOD
  A tropical American tree of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
• ESTEEMER
  One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. The proudest esteemer of his own parts. Locke.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• TRUMPETING
  A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.
• NATIVELY
  By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
• NATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being native.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• INCREDIBLENESS
  Incredibility.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.