Word Meanings - THUNDERBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.

• Crown-imperial
  A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
• Whiten
  To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
• Blackfish
  A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
• Gutturalness
  The quality of being guttural.
• Whitewashing
  of Whitewash
• Blackleg
  A notorious gambler.
• Markis
  A marquis.
• Yellowfish
  A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• Black Rod
  the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords.
• Singed
  of Singe
• AUSTRALIANBALLOT
  A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed b
• Singleness
  The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
• BLACKJACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.)
• Breastrail
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Singult
  A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.
• CROWNCOLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Thruster
  One who thrusts or stabs.
• SINGSING
  The kob.

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