Word Meanings - GOLDEN-EYE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Commonalties
  of Commonalty
• Currencies
  of Currency
• Foundering
  of Founder
• Golden-rod
  A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.
• GOLDENROD
  A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Commonalty
  The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
• Currency
  A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
• Founderous
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
• Northern
  Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
• GOLDENSTATE
  California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Commoner
  One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
• Current
  Running or moving rapidly.
• Foundershaft
  The first shaft sunk.
• Northerner
  One born or living in the north.

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