Word Meanings - FORK-TAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher , a tropical American flycatcher . -- Fork-tailed gull , a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the

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Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher , a tropical American flycatcher . -- Fork-tailed gull , a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite , a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite.

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• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TAILRACE
  The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. (more info) 1. See Race, n., 6.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• TAILORING
  The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• MEDIAN
  Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which
• 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,
• TAILOR
  The goldfish. Salt-water tailor , the bluefish. Bartlett. -- Tailor bird , any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• 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.
• TAILBOARD
  The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
• TAILED
  Having a tail; having a tail or tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• RAT-TAILED
  Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. Rat-tailed larva , the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See Eristalis. -- Rat-tailed serpent , the fer-de-lance. -- Rat-tailed shrew , the musk shrew.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• GILTTAIL
  A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
• CAT O' NINE TAILS
  See CAT
• SCISSORSTAIL
  A tyrant flycatcher of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• LION'S TAIL
  A genus of labiate plants ; -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• FORKTAIL
  One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.