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An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

The time at which cooks first crow; the early morning.

A fish; the goldsinny.

The act of pulling, or attracting.

joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.

he company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle. Shak.

The lapwing.

That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a fou…

In a flowing manner.

Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. [R.] W. Nichols.

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

See Advancing-edge, above.

See Advancing-surface, above.

With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.

Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak.

In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.