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Word Meanings - CASSICAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.

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  • PIPA
    The Surinam toad , noted for its peculiar breeding habits. Note: The male places the eggs on the back of the female, where they soon become inclosed in capsules formed by the thickening of the skin. The incubation of the eggs takes place in the
  • PIPERIDINE
    An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
  • ALLICIENT
    That attracts; attracting. -- n.
  • ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
    Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
  • PIPPUL TREE
    See TREE
  • PIPEVINE
    The Dutchman's pipe. See under Dutchman.
  • CONSTRUCT
    together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
  • ORIOLE
    l'oriol), fr. L. aureolus golden, dim. of aureus golden, fr. aurum Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidæ. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus
  • ALLITERAL
    Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
  • AMERICANIZATION
    The process of Americanizing.
  • PIPRA
    Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridæ. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • ALLITERATOR
    One who alliterates.
  • ALLIED
    United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
  • CRESTLESS
    Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.
  • AMERICAN
    1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
  • CREST
    A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4. 4. The upper curve of a horse's neck. Throwing the base thong
  • CONSTRUCTIVELY
    In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
  • AMERICANISM
    1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
  • PIPING
    1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift. 2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. Shak. 3. Emitting a high, shrill sound. 4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling;
  • GALLIASS
    See GALLEASS
  • EPIPLEURAL
    Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.
  • DALLIANCE
    1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
  • KAKARALLI
    A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
  • EPIPTERYGOID
    Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • EPIPHYTIC; EPIPHYTICAL
    Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte. -- Ep`i*phyt"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • REALLIANCE
    A renewed alliance.
  • IMPALLID
    To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
    See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  • HOGGER-PIPE; HOGGERPIPE
    The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.
  • CRYSTALLIZATION
    The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
  • BALLISTER
    A crossbow.
  • MISALLIED
    Wrongly allied or associated.

 

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