Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
Aloes wood () See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood () A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Beetle-headed (a.) Dull |
Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Blue (superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker |
Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame |
Blue (superl.) Low in spirits |
Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits |
Blue (superl.) Severe or over strict in morals |
Blue (superl.) Literary |
Blue (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism |
Blue (n.) A pedantic woman |
Blue (pl.) Low spirits |
Blue (v. t.) To make blue |
Blue bonnet (n.) Alt. of Blue-bonnet |
Blue-bonnet (n.) A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap |
Blue-bonnet (n.) A plant. Same as Bluebottle. |
Blue-bonnet (n.) The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus) |
Blue book () A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. |
Blue book () The United States official "Biennial Register." |
Blue-eye (n.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia. |
Blue-eyed (a.) Having blue eyes. |
Blue-eyed grass () a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. |
Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils |
Blue jay () The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue. |
Blue-john (n.) A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes. |
Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks. |
Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
Brazil wood () The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler. |
Buffle-headed (a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo |
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Campeachy Wood () Logwood. |
Clear-headed (a.) Having a clear understanding |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Cool-headed (a.) Having a temper not easily excited |
Dove () of Dive |
Dog-headed (a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog |
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads |
Dove (n.) A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous. |
Dove (n.) A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. |
Dove-eyed (a.) Having eyes like a dove |
Dove plant () A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Dove's-foot (n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England |
Dove's-foot (n.) The columbine. |
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed |
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy |
Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
cyanobacteria blue-green algae | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll, occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats, important as phytoplankton |
bonito shark blue pointed Isurus glaucus | common blue-grey shark of southwest Pacific, sport and food fish |
blue shark great blue shark Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark, blue body shades to white belly, dangerous especially during maritime disasters |
pewee peewee peewit pewit wood pewee Contopus virens | small oliveolored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
western wood pewee Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
wood thrush Hylocichla mustelina | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands, noted for its melodious song |
wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
New World warbler wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
blue jay jaybird Cyanocitta cristata | common jay of eastern North America, bright blue with grey breast |
blue mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens | mockingbird of Mexico |
blue tit tomtit Parus caeruleus | widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head |
wood swallow swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
blue-headed vireo Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
Cooper's hawk blue darter Accipiter cooperii | bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight |
wood-frog wood frog Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
western fence lizard swift blue-belly Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
blue racer Coluber constrictor flaviventris | bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa tow-headed snake Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
wood tick American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
capercaillie capercailzie horse of the wood Tetrao urogallus | large black Old World grouse |
blue peafowl Pavo cristatus | peafowl of India and Ceylon |
dove | any of numerous small pigeons |
rock dove rock pigeon Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
wood pigeon ringdove cushat Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
mourning dove Zenaidura macroura | wild dove of the United States having a mournful call |
wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
bluewing blue-winged teal Anas discors | American teal |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
wood drake | male wood duck |
blue goose Chen caerulescens | North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter |
acanthocephalan spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
bluepoint blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
blue crab Callinectes sapidus | bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
wood ibis wood stork flinthead Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downwardurved bill, inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics |
wood ibis wood stork Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
great blue heron Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
little blue heron Egretta caerulea | small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere |
weka maori hen wood hen | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
white-headed stilt Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
Kerry blue terrier | an Irish breed of medium-sized terriers with a silky blue-grey coat |
blue fox | a variety of Arctic fox having a pale grey winter coat |
blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
wood ant Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
dry-wood termite | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil |