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Word Meanings - NINE-KILLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The northern butcher bird.

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  • BUTCHERING
    1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
  • NORTHERNMOST
    Farthest north.
  • BUTCHER'S BROOM
    A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
  • NORTHERN
    1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
  • BUTCHERLY
    Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.
  • BUTCHERLINESS
    Butchery quality.
  • BUTCHER
    orig., slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; 1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. 2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with
  • NORTHERNER
    1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner.
  • NORTHERNLY
    Northerly. Hakewill.
  • BUTCHERY
    1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like

 

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