Word Meanings - RINGNECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.

• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Piperidine
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Pipra
  Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridae. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.
• Blackballed
  of Blackball
• Commonitive
  Monitory.
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• Blacken
  To make or render black.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Summerstir
  To summer-fallow.
• Black-hearted
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• Neckband
  A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.
• Winter's bark
  The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• Black monk
  A Benedictine monk.
• Northeasterly
  Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.
• 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
• Blackthorn
  A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
• Northumbrian
  Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
• BROWNBILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hook
• Brownness
  The quality or state of being brown.

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