Word Meanings - SHORTWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.

• Smallage
  A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• BIRDSMOUTH
  An interior acrow's-foot in the United States.
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Generability
  Capability of being generated.
• Generalty
  Generality.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Severalty
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
• Shorthand
  A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• BIRDSNESTBIRDSNEST
  The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of al
• Allision
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
• Generable
  Capable of being generated or produced.
• Generant
  Generative; producing
• Short-handed
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• Alliable
  Able to enter into alliance.
• BIRDSNESTING
  Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
• Alliteral
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

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