Word Meanings - RINGDOVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.

• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Whited
  of White
• Whitefish
  Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is ab
• White-pot
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
• Whiteweed
  A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• WHITEFLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• WHITESLAVING
  The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• Cushat
  The ringdove or wood pigeon.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Whiteback
  The canvasback.
• Whiteflaw
  A whitlow.
• Whiterump
  The American black-tailed godwit.
• Whitewing
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• WHITEFOOT
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• WHITEWATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• European
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.

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