Word Meanings - KILLDEEKILLDEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small American plover (Ægialitis vocifera). Note: It is dark grayish brown above; the rump and upper tail coverts are yellowish rufous; the belly, throat, and a line over the eyes, white; a ring round the neck and band across the breast, black.

• Blackheart
  A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.
• Vociferating
  of Vociferate
• Black Monday
  Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
• Whitecoat
  The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.
• Blacktail
  A fish; the ruff or pope.
• Whitening
  of Whiten
• Breast-high
  High as the breast.
• Whitewashed
  of Whitewash
• Brown bill
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Roundabout
  Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• Blackball
  A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
• Round-shouldered
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
• ROUNDBACKED
  Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
• Blackening
  of Blacken
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Black-hearted
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.

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