Word Meanings - VADANTES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.

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• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• SWIMMINGNESS
  Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
• WADMOL
  A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by
• WADDIE
  See WADDY
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• WADER
  Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wades.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• WADDLE
  To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her
• SWIMMING
  1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
• WAD
  Woad.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• WADING
  a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. See Wader, 2.
• WADDLINGLY
  In a waddling manner.
• WADSET
  A kind of pledge or mortgage.
• WAD; WADD
  An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. Plumbago, or black lead.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• EXTENSIVENESS
  The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• HOWADJI
  1. A traveler. 2. A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• FREE-SWIMMING
  Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
• TWADDY
  Idle trifling; twaddle.
• SWADDLER
  A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT