Word Meanings - SPRIGTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.

• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• PINTAILED
  Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Pintail
  A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.

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