Word Meanings - GOATSUCKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.

• NIGHTBLOOMING
  Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Chaffer
  One who chaffs.
• Generalissimo
  The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
• Generate
  To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
• Nightcap
  A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
• Nightmare
  A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Severalty
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
• NIGHTEYED
  Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. "Your night-eyed Tiberius." B. Jonson.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Chaffered
  of Chaffer
• Generalities
  of Generality
• Generation
  The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
• Nightdress
  A nightgown.
• Nightshade
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
• Allision
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

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