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noun
- a group of birds
- a group of sheep or goats
- a church congregation guided by a pastor
- an orderly crowd
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
- A lock of wool or hair.
- Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
- A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
- Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
- A large number of people.
- (Christianity) A religious congregation.
- A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
verb
- move as a crowd or in a group
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- (transitive) To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
- (transitive) To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
- (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
- (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
noun
- A flock of herons.
- (figuratively) A prolonged assault or attack.
- The seat of a heron while looking out for prey.
- (military) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
- (US) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
- the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
verb
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- a tame parrot
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- the top of the head
- the counting of votes (as in an election)
- the part of the head between the ears
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- A pet parrot.
verb
- get the votes of
- convert into a pollard
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- vote in an election at a polling station
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- To impose a tax upon.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
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noun
noun
- A group of birds roosting together.
- The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
- (Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
- Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
- (Shetland and Orkney) Alternative form of roust (“a strong tide or current”).
- (Australian rules football) A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
- A bedroom.
- a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
- a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
verb
noun
- A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
- (fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
- Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
- Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
- grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
noun
- Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
- The name of the Latin script letter J/j.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
- The Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis.
- Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.
- crested largely blue bird
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- A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- Any large gathering of people.
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- the act of congregating
- an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
noun
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- a person who wields power and influence
- a container in which something can be shaken
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- A bird, the dotterel.
- (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- (figurative) A tendency or trend.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- breath
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (intransitive) To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- extend in curves and turns
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- arrange or coil around
- catch the scent of; get wind of
noun
- Any of various other small passerine birds.
- (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A police officer; a "tithead".
- A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
- (chiefly in the plural) A person's breast or nipple.
- A morsel; a bit.
- An animal's teat or udder.
- (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) An idiot; a fool.
- small insectivorous birds
- the small projection of a mammary gland
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
verb
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
- (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
- (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
- (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
- (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
noun
- the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
- (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
- (UK, with definite article, chiefly in phrases) Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
- (slang) A man, fellow.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) A girlfriend.
- (slang) A prison sentence.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
- (slang) An aircraft.
- An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- (slang) A satellite.
- (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A yardbird.
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noun
- The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
- (psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
- A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
- Quality of tone.
- (music) Alternative form of klang.
- a loud resonant repeating noise
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noun
- A gressorial bird.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
- (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
- A fleshy red crest of a rooster
noun
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- (by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
- The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
- (historical) The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
noun
- small gallinaceous game birds
- flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
verb
noun
- a flock of geese
- (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things, particularly one perceived as noisy, boisterous or chaotic.
- (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
- (collective, historical): A group of women.
- Short for press gaggle: an informal briefing of journalists.
verb
noun
- a group of birds
- a group of sheep or goats
- a church congregation guided by a pastor
- an orderly crowd
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
- A lock of wool or hair.
- Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
- A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
- Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
- A large number of people.
- (Christianity) A religious congregation.
- A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
verb
- move as a crowd or in a group
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- (transitive) To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
- (transitive) To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
- (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
- (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
noun
- A flock of herons.
- (figuratively) A prolonged assault or attack.
- The seat of a heron while looking out for prey.
- (military) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
- (US) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
- the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
verb
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- a tame parrot
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- the top of the head
- the counting of votes (as in an election)
- the part of the head between the ears
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- A pet parrot.
verb
- get the votes of
- convert into a pollard
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- vote in an election at a polling station
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- To impose a tax upon.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
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- A group of birds roosting together.
- The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
- (Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
- Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
- (Shetland and Orkney) Alternative form of roust (“a strong tide or current”).
- (Australian rules football) A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
- A bedroom.
- a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
- a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
verb
noun
- A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
- (fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
- Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
- Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
- grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
noun
- Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
- The name of the Latin script letter J/j.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
- The Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis.
- Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.
- crested largely blue bird
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- A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- Any large gathering of people.
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- the act of congregating
- an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
noun
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- a person who wields power and influence
- a container in which something can be shaken
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- A bird, the dotterel.
- (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- (figurative) A tendency or trend.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- breath
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (intransitive) To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- extend in curves and turns
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- arrange or coil around
- catch the scent of; get wind of
noun
- Any of various other small passerine birds.
- (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A police officer; a "tithead".
- A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
- (chiefly in the plural) A person's breast or nipple.
- A morsel; a bit.
- An animal's teat or udder.
- (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) An idiot; a fool.
- small insectivorous birds
- the small projection of a mammary gland
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
noun
- The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
- (psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
- A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
- Quality of tone.
- (music) Alternative form of klang.
- a loud resonant repeating noise
intj
verb
noun
- A gressorial bird.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
- (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
- A fleshy red crest of a rooster
noun
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- (by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
- The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
- (historical) The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
noun
- small gallinaceous game birds
- flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
verb
noun
- a flock of geese
- (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things, particularly one perceived as noisy, boisterous or chaotic.
- (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
- (collective, historical): A group of women.
- Short for press gaggle: an informal briefing of journalists.
verb
verb
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
- (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
- (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
- (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
- (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
noun
- the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
- (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
- (UK, with definite article, chiefly in phrases) Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
- (slang) A man, fellow.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) A girlfriend.
- (slang) A prison sentence.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
- (slang) An aircraft.
- An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- (slang) A satellite.
- (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A yardbird.