Word Meanings - BARREDOWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Colored
  of Color
• Color sergeant
  See under Sergeant.
• BREASTHIGH
  High as the breast.
• Breastheight
  The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.
• Brownback
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Coloring
  of Color
• BREASTPLOWBREASTPLOUGH
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Breast-high
  High as the breast.
• Brown bill
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Large-acred
  Possessing much land.
• BROWNBILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hook
• American
  Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

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