Word Meanings - BIRDSNESTBIRDSNEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of algæ. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass. See Illust. under Edible. 3. (Bot.)

• Mixtilineal
  Alt. of Mixtilinear
• Undergrub
  To undermine.
• Understratum
  The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.
• Resembled
  of Resemble
• Underkingdom
  A subordinate or dependent kingdom.
• Undertime
  The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening.
• Smalls
  See Small, n., 2, 3.
• Undermanned
  Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.
• Underworked
  of Underwork
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Underaction
  Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.
• Undernime
  To receive; to perceive.
• ALLICEALLIS
  The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.
• Composer
  One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.
• Underbuilder
  A subordinate or assistant builder.
• Underpraise
  To praise below desert.
• UNDERPROPPER
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• Founding
  of Found
• Undercreep
  To creep secretly or privily.
• Undersay
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction.

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