Word Meanings - GODWIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

• BLACKFRIDAY
  Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and Septemb
• Bill book
  A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Billmen
  of Billman
• Family
  The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
• Blacking
  of Black
• Severalize
  To distinguish.
• Blackcoat
  A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.
• Tailoring
  of Tailor
• Blackguarding
  of Blackguard
• Valueless
  Being of no value; having no worth.
• Blackmail
  A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
• Wadset
  A kind of pledge or mortgage.
• Blacksmith
  A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
• BIRDSEYEMAPLE
  See under Maple.
• Caller
  One who calls.
• BLACKHAMBURG
  A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.
• Bill broker
  One who negotiates the discount of bills.

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