Word Meanings - ROBIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

famebright; F., fron OHG. Roudperht; ruod (in comp.; akin to AS. hr glory, fame, Goth. hr victorius) + beraht bright. See Bright, Hob a A small European singing bird , having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.

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famebright; F., fron OHG. Roudperht; ruod (in comp.; akin to AS. hr glory, fame, Goth. hr victorius) + beraht bright. See Bright, Hob a A small European singing bird , having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock. An American singing bird , having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush. Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See Indian robin, below. Beach robin , the robin snipe, or knot. See Knot. -- Blue-throated robin. See Bluethroat. -- Canada robin , the cedar bird. -- Golden robin , the Baltimore oriole. -- Ground robin , the chewink. -- Indian robin , any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera Thamnobia and Pratincola. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings. -- Magrie robin , an Asiatic singing bird (Corsycus saularis), having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings black, and the belly white. -- Ragged robin. See under Ragged. -- Robin accentor , a small Asiatic singing bird (Accentor rubeculoides), somewhat resembling the European robin. -- Robin redbreast. The European robin. The American robin. The American bluebird. -- Robin snipe. The red-breasted snipe, or dowitcher. The red-breasted sandpiper, or knot. -- Robin's plantain. See under Plantain. -- Sea robin. Any one of several species of American gurnards of the genus Prionotus. They are excellent food fishes. Called also wingfish. The name is also applied to a European gurnard. The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. -- Water robin , a redstart , native of India.

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  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• BRIGHT
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• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SINGLY
  1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
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  The kob.
• REDBREAST
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• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SINGULAR
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• CALL
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• BREASTWHEEL
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• SINGSTER
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• BREASTWORK
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• HAVE
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• GYMNASTICALLY
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• CHICKEN-BREASTED
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  In a hypercritical manner.
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