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.

• 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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