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blackbird
(encz) | blackbird,kos n: [zoo.] |
Blackbird
(gcide) | Blackbird \Black"bird\, n.
1. Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. [Cant,
pejorative]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called
also Kanaka. [Australia, pejorative]
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Blackbird
(gcide) | Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), v. i.
to engage in the slave trade. [Colloq.]
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Blackbird
(gcide) | Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), n. (Zool.)
In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing
bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given
to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow
blackbird; the Agel[ae]us ph[oe]niceus, or red-winged
blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See
Redwing.
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blackbird
(wn) | blackbird
n 1: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or
predominantly black [syn: New World blackbird,
blackbird]
2: common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl,
merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, {Turdus
merula}] |
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blackbirds
(mass) | blackbirds
- kosí |
blackbirds
(encz) | blackbirds,kosi n: pl. [zoo.] Radka D. |
crow blackbird
(encz) | crow blackbird, n: |
red-winged blackbird
(encz) | red-winged blackbird, |
ring blackbird
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rusty blackbird
(encz) | rusty blackbird, n: |
Blackbird
(gcide) | Blackbird \Black"bird\, n.
1. Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. [Cant,
pejorative]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called
also Kanaka. [Australia, pejorative]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), v. i.
to engage in the slave trade. [Colloq.]
[PJC]Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), n. (Zool.)
In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing
bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given
to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow
blackbird; the Agel[ae]us ph[oe]niceus, or red-winged
blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See
Redwing.
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Blackbirder
(gcide) | Blackbirder \Black"bird*er\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd*[~e]r), n.
A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] --F. T. Bullen.
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Blackbirding
(gcide) | Blackbirding \Black"bird*ing\, n.
1. The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as
slaves.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands
near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar
plantations. [Australia]
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Crow blackbird
(gcide) | Crow \Crow\, n. [AS. cr[=a]we a crow (in sense 1); akin to D.
kraai, G. kr[aum]he; cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow. So named from
its cry, from AS. cr[=a]wan to crow. See Crow, v. i. ]
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1. (Zool.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus,
having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It
has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
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Note: The common crow of Europe, or carrion crow, is {Corvus
corone}. The common American crow is {Corvus
Americanus}. See Carrion crow, and Illustr., under
Carrion.
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2. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron
used as a lever; a crowbar.
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Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Unto my cell. --Shak.
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3. The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
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4. The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
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Carrion crow. See under Carrion.
Crow blackbird (Zool.), an American bird ({Quiscalus
quiscula}); -- called also purple grackle.
Crow pheasant (Zool.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal.
It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal.
Crow shrike (Zool.), any bird of the genera Gymnorhina,
Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Australia.
Red-legged crow. See Crough.
As the crow flies, in a direct line.
To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a
difference or grievance (with any one).
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marsh blackbird
(gcide) | Redwing \Red"wing`\ (-w?ng`), n. (Zool.)
A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts
are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush.
(b) A North American passerine bird ({Agelarius
ph[oe]niceus}) of the family Icteridae. The male is
black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered
with orange, on each wing. Called also {redwinged
blackbird}, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and
swamp blackbird.
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Pied blackbird
(gcide) | Pied \Pied\, a. [From Pie the party-colored bird.]
Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored;
spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." --Burton. "Meadows trim with
daisies pied." --Milton.
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Pied antelope (Zool.), the bontebok.
Pied-billed grebe (Zool.), the dabchick.
Pied blackbird (Zool.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus
Turdulus.
Pied finch (Zool.)
(a) The chaffinch.
(b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
Pied flycatcher (Zool.), a common European flycatcher
(Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.
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redwinged blackbird
(gcide) | Redwing \Red"wing`\ (-w?ng`), n. (Zool.)
A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts
are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush.
(b) A North American passerine bird ({Agelarius
ph[oe]niceus}) of the family Icteridae. The male is
black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered
with orange, on each wing. Called also {redwinged
blackbird}, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and
swamp blackbird.
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Ring blackbird
(gcide) | Ring \Ring\, n. [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G.
ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf.
Russ. krug'. Cf. Harangue, Rank a row,Rink.]
A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a
circular line or hoop.
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2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other
precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the
ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a
wedding ring.
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Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer.
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The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. --Shak.
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3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports
are performed; an arena.
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Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring,
Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. --E.
Smith.
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4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence,
figuratively, prize fighting. "The road was an
institution, the ring was an institution." --Thackeray.
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5. A circular group of persons.
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And hears the Muses in a ring
Aye round about Jove's alter sing. --Milton.
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6. (Geom.)
(a) The plane figure included between the circumferences
of two concentric circles.
(b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or
other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an
axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other
figure.
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7. (Astron. & Navigation) An instrument, formerly used for
taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring
suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through
which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the
graduated inner surface opposite.
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8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the
spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
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9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a
selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute
offices, obtain contracts, etc.
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The ruling ring at Constantinople. --E. A.
Freeman.
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Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See {Ring
mail}, below, and Chain mail, under Chain.
Ring blackbird (Zool.), the ring ousel.
Ring canal (Zool.), the circular water tube which surrounds
the esophagus of echinoderms.
Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zool.) See
Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster.
Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring
(dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy
it as valuable, it being worthless.
Ring fence. See under Fence.
Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next
the little finger, on which the ring is placed in
marriage.
Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a
closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See
Illust. under Benzene.
Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed
upon a garment of leather or of cloth.
Ring micrometer. (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under
Micrometer.
Saturn's rings. See Saturn.
Ring ousel. (Zool.) See Ousel.
Ring parrot (Zool.), any one of several species of Old
World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck,
especially Palaeornis torquatus, common in India, and
Palaeornis Alexandri of Java.
Ring plover. (Zool.)
(a) The ringed dotterel.
(b) Any one of several small American plovers having a
dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover
(Aegialitis semipalmata).
Ring snake (Zool.), a small harmless American snake
(Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the
neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of
an orange red.
Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper.
Ring thrush (Zool.), the ring ousel.
The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend;
prize fighters, collectively.
The ring.
(a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races.
[Eng.]
(b) The prize ring.
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Skunk blackbird
(gcide) | Skunk \Skunk\, n. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian)
seganku.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores
of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two
glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid,
which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
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Note: The common species of the Eastern United States
(Mephitis mephitica) is black with more or less white
on the body and tail. The spotted skunk ({Spilogale
putorius}), native of the Southwestern United States
and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is
variously marked with black and white.
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Skunk bird, Skunk blackbird (Zool.), the bobolink; -- so
called because the male, in the breeding season, is black
and white, like a skunk.
Skunk cabbage (Bot.), an American aroid herb ({Symplocarpus
f[oe]tidus}) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest
spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves.
It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called {swamp
cabbage}.
Skunk porpoise. (Zool.) See under Porpoise.
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swamp blackbird
(gcide) | Redwing \Red"wing`\ (-w?ng`), n. (Zool.)
A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts
are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush.
(b) A North American passerine bird ({Agelarius
ph[oe]niceus}) of the family Icteridae. The male is
black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered
with orange, on each wing. Called also {redwinged
blackbird}, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and
swamp blackbird.
[1913 Webster]Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.
zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. &
Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but
not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the
seashore.
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Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
--Tennyson.
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A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing
trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only
herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming
Encyc. (E.
Edwards,
Words).
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Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing
(b) .
Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli)
of India.
Swamp hen. (Zool.)
(a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus);
-- called also goollema.
(b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis);
-- called also little swamp hen.
(c) The European purple gallinule.
Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea
viscosa} syn. Rhododendron viscosa or {Rhododendron
viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers
of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called
also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.
Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling
logs. Cf. Cant hook.
Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small
leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.
Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak
which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak
(Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus
bicolor}), swamp post oak (Quercus lyrata).
Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
Swamp partridge (Zool.), any one of several Australian game
birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied
to the European partridges.
Swamp robin (Zool.), the chewink.
Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the
genus Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves
and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet
bay}.
Swamp sparrow (Zool.), a common North American sparrow
(Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely
resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy
places.
Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.
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Swamp blackbird
(gcide) | Redwing \Red"wing`\ (-w?ng`), n. (Zool.)
A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts
are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush.
(b) A North American passerine bird ({Agelarius
ph[oe]niceus}) of the family Icteridae. The male is
black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered
with orange, on each wing. Called also {redwinged
blackbird}, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and
swamp blackbird.
[1913 Webster]Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.
zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. &
Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but
not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the
seashore.
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Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
--Tennyson.
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A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing
trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only
herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming
Encyc. (E.
Edwards,
Words).
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Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing
(b) .
Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli)
of India.
Swamp hen. (Zool.)
(a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus);
-- called also goollema.
(b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis);
-- called also little swamp hen.
(c) The European purple gallinule.
Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea
viscosa} syn. Rhododendron viscosa or {Rhododendron
viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers
of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called
also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.
Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling
logs. Cf. Cant hook.
Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small
leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.
Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak
which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak
(Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus
bicolor}), swamp post oak (Quercus lyrata).
Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
Swamp partridge (Zool.), any one of several Australian game
birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied
to the European partridges.
Swamp robin (Zool.), the chewink.
Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the
genus Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves
and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet
bay}.
Swamp sparrow (Zool.), a common North American sparrow
(Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely
resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy
places.
Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.
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Water blackbird
(gcide) | Water blackbird \Wa"ter black"bird\ (Zool.)
The European water ousel, or dipper.
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crow blackbird
(wn) | crow blackbird
n 1: long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black
plumage [syn: grackle, crow blackbird] |
european blackbird
(wn) | European blackbird
n 1: common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl,
merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, {Turdus
merula}] |
new world blackbird
(wn) | New World blackbird
n 1: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or
predominantly black [syn: New World blackbird,
blackbird] |
red-winged blackbird
(wn) | red-winged blackbird
n 1: North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings
[syn: red-winged blackbird, redwing, {Agelaius
phoeniceus}] |
ring blackbird
(wn) | ring blackbird
n 1: European thrush common in rocky areas; the male has
blackish plumage with a white band around the neck [syn:
ring ouzel, ring blackbird, ring thrush, {Turdus
torquatus}] |
rusty blackbird
(wn) | rusty blackbird
n 1: North American blackbird whose bluish-black plumage is
rusty-edged in the fall [syn: rusty blackbird, {rusty
grackle}, Euphagus carilonus] |
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