Word Meanings - SWALLOWTAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck (Zoöl.), the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull (Zoöl.), an Arctic gull (Xema furcata), which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite (Zoöl.), the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth (Zoöl.), a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings.

• Forktail
  One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Swallowtail
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• Tailoress
  A female tailor.
• Uniting
  of Unite
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Fork-tailed
  Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Swallow-tailed
  Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
• Tailpiece
  A piece at the end; an appendage.
• FORKTAILED
  Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two speci
• Swallowwort
  See Celandine.
• Tailpin
  The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
• Unitedly
  In an united manner.
• HAVIER
  A castrated deer. Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport.

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