Birdcall: alternatives and connections

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid…

Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird's-eye…

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A law or rule.

An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, b…

A prater; an idle talker.

A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resoun…

Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

A man employed in decoying wild fowl.

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.

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An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. S…

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning so…

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable…