Word Meanings - SILVERBILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• MINIACEOUS; MINACEOUS
  Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
• MINIARD
  Migniard.
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• WORLDLING
  A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
• FINCHBACKED
  Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• MINIATURIST
  A painter of miniatures.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
  Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
• AFRICANDER
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• WORLDLINESS
  The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
• INDIADEM
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• MINIATE
  Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• HAWFINCH
  The common European grosbeak ; -- called also cherry finch, and coble.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• WHYDAH BIRD; WHYDAH FINCH
  The whidah bird.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• ROSEFINCH
  Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
• PINEFINCH
  A small American bird ; -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin. The pine grosbeak.
• INTERWORLD
  A world between other worlds. Holland.