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. See under Dry. -- Sap sucker (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to o…

palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers. (Pici).

Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, the scansorial foot.

cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another. [R.] Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ).

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. [Prov. Eng.]

d by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.

An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip. [U. S.]

The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

Specky. [Obs.] hapman.

A woodpecker. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] Sherwood.

A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A woodpecker. See Speight. [Obs.]

The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

The green woodpecker.

A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker.

ficer having charge of the survey of the public lands of a land district. [U.S.] Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.). -- Surveyor's compass. See Circumferentor. -- Surveyor's level. See under Level.

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]

olonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. -- Tree jobber (Zoöl.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] -- Tree kangaroo. (Zoöl.) See Kangaroo. -- Tree lark (Zoöl.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tree lizard (Zoöl.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards (Dendrosauria) comprising the chameleons. -- Tree…