Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121

Warning: Undefined array key "meanings" in /home2/munaflpd/selfpubguru/code/plugin/words/index.php on line 121
Word Meanings - BROWNBILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database - A bill or halberd of the 16th - selfpublishingguru.com
bell notificationshomepageloginNewPostedit profile

Word Meanings - BROWNBILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database - A bill or halberd of the 16th - selfpublishingguru.com

Word Meanings - BROWNBILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. Grose.

  • Hookey
    See Hockey.
  • Black-jack
    A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
  • Spiked
    of Spike
  • Blackness
    The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
  • BLACKBROWED
    Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.
  • Blackwash
    A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
  • BLACKPUDDING
    A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.
  • Brown thrush
    A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
  • HALBERDSHAPED
    Hastate.
  • Calligraphist
    A calligrapher
  • Callosum
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • Black bass
    An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.
  • Cuttle bone
    The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
  • Black-faced
    Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
  • Blackfeet
    A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
  • Hooklet
    A little hook.
  • Black lead
    Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
  • Spikebill
    The hooded merganser.
  • Blackpoll
    A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
  • BLACKBURNIANWARBLER
    A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

Search word meanings:

Back to top