Word Meanings - BIRDSEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
Related words: (words related to BIRDSEED)
- CAGED
Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." Shak. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - CANARY BIRD
A small singing bird of the Finch family , a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - OTHERNESS
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - CAGE
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 5. The box, bucket, - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - CANARY
1. Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. 2. Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. Canary grass, a grass of the genus Phalaris , producing the seed used as food for canary birds. -- Canary stone , a yellow - CAG
See KEG - CAGIT
A king of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands. - FEEDING
1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. 2. That which is eaten; food. 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle. - OTHERGATES
In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - MILLET
The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica. Note: Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. -- Egyptian - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - CAGOT
One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts . They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths. - FEED
f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2. - PICCAGE
Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth. (more info) Law) - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - ENCAGE
To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak. (more info) Etym: - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - STALL-FEED
To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox. - MOTHER'S DAY
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who - STEPMOTHER
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage. - DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.