English Dictionary: Erfrischungsbar | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ear-bored \Ear"-bored`\, a. Having the ear perforated. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ear-piercer \Ear"-pier`cer\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The earwig. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hare's-tail \Hare's"-tail`\ (-t[amac]l`), n. (Bot.) A kind of grass ({Eriophorum vaginatum}). See {Cotton grass}, under {Cotton}. {Hare's-tail grass} (Bot.), a species of grass ({Lagurus ovatus}) whose head resembles a hare's tail. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eurafric \Eur*af"ric\, Eurafrican \Eur*af"ri*can\, a. [Europe + Afric, African.] 1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. (Zo[94]geography) Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eurafric \Eur*af"ric\, Eurafrican \Eur*af"ri*can\, a. [Europe + Afric, African.] 1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. (Zo[94]geography) Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muskwood \Musk"wood`\, n. [So called from its fragrance.] (Bot.) (a) The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family ({Moschoxylum Swartzii}). (b) The wood of an Australian tree ({Eurybia argophylla}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pelican \Pel"i*can\, n. [F. p[82]lican, L. pelicanus, pelecanus, Gr. [?], [?], [?], the woodpecker, and also a water bird of the pelican kind, fr. [?] to hew with an ax, akin to Skr. para[cced]u.] [Written also {pelecan}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus {Pelecanus}, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored. Note: The American white pelican ({Pelecanus erythrorhynchos}) and the brown species ({P. fuscus}) are abundant on the Florida coast in winter, but breed about the lakes in the Rocky Mountains and British America. 2. (Old Chem.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation. Note: The principle is still employed in certain modern forms of distilling apparatus. {Frigate pelican} (Zo[94]l.), the frigate bird. See under {Frigate}. {Pelican fish} (Zo[94]l.), deep-sea fish ({Eurypharynx pelecanoides}) of the order {Lyomeri}, remarkable for the enormous development of the jaws, which support a large gular pouch. {Pelican flower} (Bot.), the very large and curiously shaped blossom of a climbing plant ({Aristolochia grandiflora}) of the West Indies; also, the plant itself. {Pelican ibis} (Zo[94]l.), a large Asiatic wood ibis ({Tantalus leucocephalus}). The head and throat are destitute of feathers; the plumage is white, with the quills and the tail greenish black. {Pelican in her piety} (in heraldry and symbolical art), a representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her breast in order to nourish her young with her blood; -- a practice fabulously attributed to the bird, on account of which it was adopted as a symbol of the Redeemer, and of charity. {Pelican's foot} (Zo[94]l.), a marine gastropod shell of the genus {Aporrhais}, esp. {Aporrhais pes-pelicani} of Europe. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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