Word Meanings - WHITE-EYE - 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. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.
- Whiteside
The golden-eye. - Callosum
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - 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 - Whitesmith
One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. - 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.
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