Word Meanings - RASORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

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• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• PEACOCK
  The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DOMESTICANT
  Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
• RASORES
  An order of birds; the Gallinæ. Note: Formely, the word Rasores was used in a wider sense, so as to include other birds now widely separated in classification.
• DOMESTICALLY
  In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
• PEACOCK THRONE
  1. A famous throne formerly of the kings of Delhi, India, but since 1739, when it was carried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia ; -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.
• DOMESTICAL
  Domestic. Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.
• DOMESTICATOR
  One who domesticates.
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• DOMESTICITY
  The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
• GALLINACEOUS
  Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.
• DOMESTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were
• UNDOMESTICATE
  To make wild or roving.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach