Word Meanings - WHITEHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The blue-winged snow goose. The surf scoter.

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• WINGY
  1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• GOOSERY
  1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• WINGLET
  A bastard wing, or alula. (more info) 1. A little wing; a very small wing.
• GOOSEWINGED
  Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
• GOOSEFISH
  See ANGLER
• GOOSEWING
  One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
• GOOSE EGG
  In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg.
• SCOTER
  Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia. Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the velvet, or double, scoter . The common American species are the velvet,
• WINGMANSHIP
  Power or skill in flying. Duke of Argyll.
• GOOSEBERRY
  Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly
• GOOSE-RUMPED
  Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.
• WING-LEAVED
  Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
• WING-FOOTED
  1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton. Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike
• WINGLESS
  Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird , the apteryx.
• WING-HANDED
  Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
• WING
  1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity. Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms. Pope. Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours. Longfellow. 2. To supply with wings or sidepieces. The main battle,
• GOOSE
  gans, Icel. gas, Dan. gaas, Sw. g, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. hamsa. sq. root233. Cf. Gander, Gannet, Ganza, 1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied
• WING-SHELL
  Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• TWINGE
  OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
• WAY-GOOSE
  See 2
• ZWINGLIAN
  Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• OVERWING
  To outflank. Milton.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• SKEELDUCK; SKEELGOOSE
  The common European sheldrake.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• MONGOOSE; MONGOOS
  A species of ichneumon , native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose
• SPUR-WINGED
  Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose , any one of several species of long-legged African geese of the genus Plectropterus and allied genera, having a strong spur on the bend of the wing, as the Gambo goose and
• KNOWING
  1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
• CARGOOSE
  A species of grebe ; the crested grebe.