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Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs. Note: Among the best-known European species are the song thrush or throstle , the missel thrush , the European

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Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs. Note: Among the best-known European species are the song thrush or throstle , the missel thrush , the European redwing, and the blackbird. The most important American species are the wood thrush , Wilson's thrush (T. fuscescens), the hermit thrush , Swainson's thrush , and the migratory thrush, or American robin .

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• NOTUM
  The back.
• MISSEL
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• SINGLE-BREASTED
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• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
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• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• SINGLY
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• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
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  The song thrush.
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
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  See GENUS
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  One who alliterates.
• NOTTURNO
  See NOCTURNE
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
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• HYPNOTIC
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• DALLIANCE
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• INNUMEROUS
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  A renewed alliance.
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