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th holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [Written also pilliewinkles.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The golden-eye.

A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius phoeniceus) of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-…

To win again, or win back. The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning. Fuller.

Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

Scale-winged.

a. & n. from Screw, v. t. Screwing machine. See Screw machine, under Screw.

A wing shell (Avicula).

(Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.

Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.

A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.

Same as Sewen.

That which is sewed with the needle. Sewing horse (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. -- Sewing machine, a machine for sewing or stitching. -- Sewing press, or Sewing table (Bookbinding), a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to whi…

The quality or state of being shadowy.

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.

Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.