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A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.] How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher.

Pertaining to electrostatics.

That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.

Without a beak.

Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.

Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.

A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.

lation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. Shak.

g with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray.

The golden plover.

To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. Pepys.

A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.

Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.