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Bank note
unknown · 78% connection
Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Bill
noun · 78% connection
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Billhook
noun · 78% connection
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Bison
noun · 78% connection
The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which form…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Bunting
noun · 78% connection
A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Conical
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Conirostres
n. pl. · 78% connection
A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Content
noun · 78% connection
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Contents
noun · 78% connection
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Cop
noun · 78% connection
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Crossbill
noun · 78% connection
A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Dart
noun · 78% connection
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Dentirostral
adjective · 78% connection
Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Excise
noun · 78% connection
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Ferae
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
Grallae
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, birds, short, conical, pointed.
