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cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy. -- Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham. -- Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other purposes; a calli…

s usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade. The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray.

A female professional singer.

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

A female champion. Fairfax.

nt is sung. Chanting falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon (Melierax canorus or musicus). The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.

A female chanter or singer. Milton.

ool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

A female scold. [Obs.]

t of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by pecular organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locu…

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.

The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

A female citizen. [R.]