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The European meadow pipit; a titlark. Ground tit. (Zoöl.) See Wren tit, under Wren. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera. -- Tit babbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Tri…

ble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

The meadow pipit.

ed grass (Aira cæspitosa). (c) Any kind of sedge (Carex) which forms dense tufts in a wet meadow or boggy place. -- Tussock moth (Zoöl.), the imago of any tussock caterpillar. They belong to Orgyia, Halecidota, and allied genera.

The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

The meadow saffron. Dr. Prior.

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea. Motley.

Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.

The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester. [Obs.] The whitsters in Datchet mead. Shak.

Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.

veil, that wimpled everywhere, Her head and face was hid. Spenser. With me through . . . meadows stray, Where wimpling waters make their way. Ramsay.