English words for 'The friarbird.'
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noun
noun
- A frigatebird (Fregata spp.).
- A modern type of warship, equivalent in size or smaller than a destroyer, often focused on anti-submarine warfare, but sometimes general purpose.
- (fiction) A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.
- (historical) An escort warship, smaller than a destroyer, introduced in World War 2 as an anti-submarine vessel.
- (historical) A warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the line at the beginning of the development of the ironclad battleship.
- (historical) A sailing warship (of any size) built for speed and maneuverability; typically without raised upperworks, having a flush forecastle and tumblehome sides.
- (historical) A sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling and blockading duties, but not considered large enough for the line of battle.
- a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
- a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
noun
- European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
- flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail
- (Canada, US) A species of warbler native to the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla, only distantly related to Phoenicurus.
- Any of various insectivorous ground-feeding birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus. Many of the species have a red tail.
noun
- European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
- dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
- (entomology) A species of damselfly, Ceriagrion aeruginosum, of Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia, having a bright red abdomen.
- The common or European redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus.
- The red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis.
noun
- The tropicbird.
- A kind of gull, the jaeger.
- The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
- The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
- a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
noun
- 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
noun
noun
- A yardbird.
- (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.
- 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
adj
verb
- (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.
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
noun
- A weaverbird.
- A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
- Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
- An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
noun
- 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.
adj
noun
noun
- small brownish European songbird
- any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
- Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
- (UK, chiefly London) A quick-witted, lively person.
- A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
- The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
- A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
noun
- A bird, the turnstone.
- A bird, the redshank.
- A plant in the buckwheat family, the lady's thumb.
- (Caribbean, derogatory) A member of a class of impoverished white people, originally from Ireland, Scotland and the west of England, now living on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands.
noun
- A bird, the honeyguide.
- (economics) A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
- (chemistry) Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance, or the degree of a reaction.
- (crosswording) A codeword that marks the use of a specific cryptic device.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, automotive) A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.
- A meter or gauge.
- A pointer or index that indicates something.
- The needle or dial on such a meter.
- (ecology) A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
- (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction
- a signal for attracting attention
- a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
- a device for showing the operating condition of some system
noun
- The friarbirds (Philemon spp.); so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
- (informal) A position to the right and slightly behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 4 mark on a clock face)
- (In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).
- Any of several plants, of the genus Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon.
- (Only in the 12-hour clock) The start of the seventeenth hour of the day; 4:00 p.m. (16:00).
- any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon
noun
- wing of a bird
- a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- A wing.
- (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
- A moth of the genus Lithophane.
- (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
- (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
verb
- cut the wings off (of birds)
- bind the arms of
- To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- (transferred sense, figurative) To restrain; to limit.
- To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
noun
- (falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).
- A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.
- a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
noun
- (informal) A hummingbird.
- (slang) An arrest on false pretexts.
- One who hums.
- Someone who upsets or irritates others; a trouble-maker or controversial figure.
- (slang) A very energetic or lively person; a powerful lively thing.
- A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.
- (informal) A Humvee.
- A machine that runs particularly well and smoothly.
- (baseball) A fastball.
- Something that generates a lot of attention, talk, and excitement.
- (slang) Fellatio, especially when the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
- (informal) A humdinger; something or someone exceptional or outstanding of their type.
- A tantrum or fuss.
- (slang) Something that smells very bad.
- a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
noun
- A bird, the tattler.
- (music) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
- (figuratively) Something that serves to reveal something else.
- A story or fable that has a moral or message.
- (nautical) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
- (nautical) A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
- (nautical) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- (engineering) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
- An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
- someone who gossips indiscreetly
adj
noun
noun
- A frigatebird (Fregata spp.).
- A modern type of warship, equivalent in size or smaller than a destroyer, often focused on anti-submarine warfare, but sometimes general purpose.
- (fiction) A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.
- (historical) An escort warship, smaller than a destroyer, introduced in World War 2 as an anti-submarine vessel.
- (historical) A warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the line at the beginning of the development of the ironclad battleship.
- (historical) A sailing warship (of any size) built for speed and maneuverability; typically without raised upperworks, having a flush forecastle and tumblehome sides.
- (historical) A sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling and blockading duties, but not considered large enough for the line of battle.
- a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
- a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
noun
- European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
- flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail
- (Canada, US) A species of warbler native to the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla, only distantly related to Phoenicurus.
- Any of various insectivorous ground-feeding birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus. Many of the species have a red tail.
noun
- European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
- dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
- (entomology) A species of damselfly, Ceriagrion aeruginosum, of Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia, having a bright red abdomen.
- The common or European redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus.
- The red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis.
noun
- The tropicbird.
- A kind of gull, the jaeger.
- The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
- The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
- a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
noun
- 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
noun
noun
- A yardbird.
- (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.
- 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
adj
verb
- (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.
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
noun
- A weaverbird.
- A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
- Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
- An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
noun
- 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.
adj
noun
noun
- small brownish European songbird
- any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
- Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
- (UK, chiefly London) A quick-witted, lively person.
- A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
- The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
- A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
noun
- A bird, the turnstone.
- A bird, the redshank.
- A plant in the buckwheat family, the lady's thumb.
- (Caribbean, derogatory) A member of a class of impoverished white people, originally from Ireland, Scotland and the west of England, now living on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands.
noun
- A bird, the honeyguide.
- (economics) A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
- (chemistry) Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance, or the degree of a reaction.
- (crosswording) A codeword that marks the use of a specific cryptic device.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, automotive) A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.
- A meter or gauge.
- A pointer or index that indicates something.
- The needle or dial on such a meter.
- (ecology) A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
- (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction
- a signal for attracting attention
- a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
- a device for showing the operating condition of some system
noun
- The friarbirds (Philemon spp.); so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
- (informal) A position to the right and slightly behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 4 mark on a clock face)
- (In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).
- Any of several plants, of the genus Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon.
- (Only in the 12-hour clock) The start of the seventeenth hour of the day; 4:00 p.m. (16:00).
- any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon
noun
- wing of a bird
- a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- A wing.
- (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
- A moth of the genus Lithophane.
- (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
- (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
verb
- cut the wings off (of birds)
- bind the arms of
- To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- (transferred sense, figurative) To restrain; to limit.
- To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
noun
- (falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).
- A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.
- a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
noun
- (informal) A hummingbird.
- (slang) An arrest on false pretexts.
- One who hums.
- Someone who upsets or irritates others; a trouble-maker or controversial figure.
- (slang) A very energetic or lively person; a powerful lively thing.
- A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.
- (informal) A Humvee.
- A machine that runs particularly well and smoothly.
- (baseball) A fastball.
- Something that generates a lot of attention, talk, and excitement.
- (slang) Fellatio, especially when the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
- (informal) A humdinger; something or someone exceptional or outstanding of their type.
- A tantrum or fuss.
- (slang) Something that smells very bad.
- a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
noun
- A bird, the tattler.
- (music) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
- (figuratively) Something that serves to reveal something else.
- A story or fable that has a moral or message.
- (nautical) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
- (nautical) A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
- (nautical) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- (engineering) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
- An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
- someone who gossips indiscreetly
adj
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