Word Meanings - WHITEEYE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.

• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• Indian
  Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
• SINGLEBREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• Singhalese
  Same as Cingalese.
• WHITEFRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Singletree
  The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
• WORLDLYMINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• White friar
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Indianeer
  An Indiaman.
• SINGLEFOOT
  An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i. Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a s
• Singingly
  With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.
• WHITEFRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• Singly
  Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

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