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Word Meanings - GOSHAWK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European and the American are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk is pure white.

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  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • WHITECAP
    The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
  • NOTUM
    The back.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • WHITE FLY
    Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • NOTHINGNESS
    1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • ACTIVITY
    The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • AMERICANIZATION
    The process of Americanizing.
  • NOTELET
    A little or short note; a billet.
  • FLIGHTER
    A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
  • NOTATION
    1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
  • ASTURIAN
    Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain. -- n.
  • WHITEWING
    The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
  • WHITEWALL
    The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
  • MONOTESSARON
    A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
  • HYPNOTIC
    1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
  • PASTURER
    One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
  • PHONOTYPY
    A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
  • REPASTURE
    Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
  • MONOTHALAMAN
    A foraminifer having but one chamber.
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • MONOTONE
    A single unvaried tone or sound.
  • HUGUENOTISM
    The religion of the Huguenots in France.
  • KNOTWEED
    See KNOT
  • ACCOURAGE
    To encourage.
  • MONOTHALMIC
    Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.

 

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