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Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail. Note: The common European magpie is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The

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Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail. Note: The common European magpie is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie is very similar. The yellow-belled magpie inhabits California. The blue magpie inhabits Spain. Other allied species are found in Asia. The Tasmanian and Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white magpie , the black magpie , and the Australian magpie . Magpie lark , a common Australian bird , conspicuously marked with black and white; -- called also little magpie. -- Magpie moth , a black and white European geometrid moth ; the harlequin moth. Its larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes. (more info) Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita pearl, Gr. Pie magpie, and

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• WHITECAP
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• 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
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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
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• WHITE-EAR
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• BLACKWATER STATE
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• GRADUATOR
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• COMMONER
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• WHITEBLOW
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• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GALLIASS
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• PRELATIST
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• DALLIANCE
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• MAJOR GENERAL
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• KAKARALLI
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