Word Meanings - RURALES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.

Related words: (words related to RURALES)

• WINGY
  1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• WINGLET
  A bastard wing, or alula. (more info) 1. A little wing; a very small wing.
• GOSSAMERY
  Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• WINGMANSHIP
  Power or skill in flying. Duke of Argyll.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• WING-LEAVED
  Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
• WING-FOOTED
  1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton. Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• GOSSAMER
  goose summer, from its downy appearance, or perh. for God's summer, cf. G. mariengarr gossamer, properly Mary's yarn, in allusion to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the E. word alluded to a legend that the gossamer was the remnant of the Virgin Mary's
• WINGLESS
  Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird , the apteryx.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• WING-HANDED
  Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• TWINGE
  OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
• ZWINGLIAN
  Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• OVERWING
  To outflank. Milton.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• SPUR-WINGED
  Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose , any one of several species of long-legged African geese of the genus Plectropterus and allied genera, having a strong spur on the bend of the wing, as the Gambo goose and
• KNOWING
  1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
• INGROWING
  Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• SWINGE
  See SPENSER