Word Meanings - SWINEPIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The European redwing.

Related words: (words related to SWINEPIPE)

• REDWOOD
  A gigantic coniferous tree of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Cæsalpinia Sappan, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman
• REDWING
  A European thrush . Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. A North American passerine bird of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• REDWEED
  The red poppy . Dr. Prior.
• EUROPEANIZE
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.
• REDWITHE
  A west Indian climbing shrub with slender reddish branchlets.
• CONCERT OF EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONCERT
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the Eastern Question.
• INDO-EUROPEAN
  Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo- European or Aryan family. The common origin
• HUNDREDWEIGHT
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds