Word Meanings - PASSERES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• KNOWNOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The party originat
• Orderlies
  of Orderly
• Perchant
  A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
• Single
  One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
• Sing-sing
  The kob.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• KNOWNOTHINGISM
  The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
• Oscines
  Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
• Percher
  One who, or that which, perches.
• Singled
  of Single
• Singsong
  Bad singing or poetry.
• Smalls
  See Small, n., 2, 3.
• OTHERGUISEOTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• Birdseed
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• Percheron
  One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
• Singling
  of Single
• Singster
  A songstress.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

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