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A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

See Semiglutin.

Inimical; hurtful. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.

Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.

An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.

Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.

A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dictionary of synonyms. C. J. Smith.

Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds.

be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. Pope.

Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidæ, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.

A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.

A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, or Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in th…

m a reducing furnace. -- Sand birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for numerous species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also shore birds. -- Sand blast, a process of engraving and cutting glass and other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet…

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid\'91.