Search the Dictionary

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

An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

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.

Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.

Darwinism.

The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.

State of being dewy.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

With the wind.

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.

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.

nsume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.