Word Meanings - CHAFFINCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Copperplate
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Sweetbread
  Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
• Sweet-sop
  A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
• Variety
  The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Coppersmith
  One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Sweet-breasted
  Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
• Sweetwater
  A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Callow
  Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
• Copper works
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
• Sweetbrier
  A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

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