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Word Meanings - CHIRRUP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:

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  • CAROLING
    A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.
  • CAROLINE
    A coin. See Carline.
  • TRILLION
    According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced
  • CHIRPER
    One who chirps, or is cheerful.
  • WARBLE
    1. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. Gay. 3. To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. "Birds on the branches warbling." Milton. 3. To sing with sudden
  • CHANTERELLE
    A name for several species of mushroom, of which one is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
  • CHANTEY
    A sailor's song. May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea Kipling.
  • CAROLUS
    An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
  • CHANTING
    Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon , an African falcon . The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.
  • WHISTLER
    The hoary, or northern, marmot . (more info) 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound. The ring ousel. The widgeon. The golden-eye. The golden plover and the gray plover.
  • CAROLINIAN
    A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
  • CHIRRUP
    To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
  • CAROL; CARROL
    A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.
  • CHANTICLEER
    A cock, so called from the clearness or loundness of his voice in crowing. (more info) Roman du Renart ; chanter to chant + clair clear.
  • TRILL
    A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake. (more info) 1. A sound, of consonantal character,
  • CAROLINA PINK
    See PINKBOOT
  • WHISTLE
    1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves
  • WHISTLEWING
    The American golden-eye.
  • WARBLER
    Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidæ, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler , and sedge warbler are well-known species. (more info) 1. One who, or
  • TRILLING
    A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals. (more info) 1. One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.
  • TROCHANTER
    One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
  • TROCHANTERIC
    Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
  • BACCHANTE
    1. A priestess of Bacchus. 2. A female bacchanal.
  • INTRENCHANT
    Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
  • MERCHANTRY
    1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
  • UNMERCHANTABLE
    Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is unsalable. McElrath.
  • TRENCHANT
    1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
  • BACCHANT
    1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.
  • BROCHANTITE
    A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
  • INCHANT
    See ENCHANT

 

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