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A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.

Commonly; usually. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher. The great thieves of a state are lightly the officers of the crown. B. Jonson.

To grease. [Obs.] Bacon. Liquor fishermen's boots. Shak.

burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.

To make and occupy a nest; to nest. [Obs.] The kingfisher ... nestles in hollow banks. L'Estrange.

See Fisher, 2.

A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter. [An obs. local term in Eng.] Chapman.

ensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Fishing; fishery. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A fisherman; an angler.

A female saint. [R.] Bp. Fisher.

ge, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.

ustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura. -- Sand canal (Zoöl.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function. -- Sand coc…

supported by floats and properly secured, may be left unguarded during the absence of the fisherman. -- Set nut, a jam nut or lock nut. See under Nut. -- Set screw (Mach.), a screw, sometimes cupped or printed at one end, and screwed through one part, as of a machine, tightly upon another part, to prevent the one fro…

sed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Written also sheel, shealing, sheiling, etc.] [Scot.]

A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling. [Scot.]

er their shoulders but their shirts. Addison. She had her shirts and girdles of hair. Bp. Fisher.

An oilskin hat or southwester; -- a fisherman's name. [U. S.]

oes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

s of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.