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larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species. Mock nightingale. (Zoöl.) See Blackcap, n., 1 (a).

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]

expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.

Forsaken by one's love. The lovelorn nightingale. Milton.

, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American ki…

To utter in a mournful manner or voice. The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Milton.

Same as Philomela, the nightingale. [Poetic] Milton. Cowper.

The nightingale; philomel. Shak.

The nightingale. [Obs.]

A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

ch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); -- so called from its being the n…

ds its nest among reeds; -- called also sedge bird, sedge wren, night warbler, and Scotch nightingale.

natural gravity. Bp. Wilkins. The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of his plumes. L'Estrange.