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Crake

To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

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Corncrake 76% connected

A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

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Rail 76% connected

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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Aloud adverb · 78% connection

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

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Bird's-eye adjective · 78% connection

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

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Black adjective · 78% connection

harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning … to savage mordant wi…

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Blare verb · 78% connection

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Blatant adjective · 78% connection

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

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Brown thrush unknown · 78% connection

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

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Catbird noun · 78% connection

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

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Censorious adjective · 78% connection

harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

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Chaffinch noun · 78% connection

A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper fi…

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Chatterer noun · 78% connection

A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic re…

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Discord verb · 78% connection

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they pr…

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Dissonant adjective · 78% connection

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

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Grate verb · 78% connection

To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by r…

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Gride e. i. · 78% connection

To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.

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Grim adjective · 78% connection

harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning … to savage mordant wi…

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Grit verb · 78% connection

To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

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Guidguid noun · 78% connection

A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.

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Halsening adjective · 78% connection

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.

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