Bank swallow
() See under 1st Bank, n. |
Crop-tailed
(a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Daggle-tailed
(a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth |
Dag-tailed
(a.) Daggle-tailed |
Draggle-tailed
(a.) Untidy |
Fan-tailed
(a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail |
Fork-tailed
(a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones |
Pin-tailed
(a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest |
Racket-tailed
(a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
Rat-tailed
(a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
Red-tailed
(a.) Having a red tail. |
Ring-tailed
(a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
Ruby-tailed
(a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
Scissors-tailed
(a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
Sea swallow
() The common tern. |
Sea swallow
() The storm petrel. |
Sea swallow
() The gannet. |
Sea swallow
() See Cornish chough, under Chough. |
Spine-tailed
(a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Stiff-tailed
(a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
Stump-tailed
(a.) Having a short, thick tail. |
Swallow
(n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. |
Swallow
(n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. |
Swallow
(n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. |
Swallow
(v. t.) To take into the stomach |
Swallow
(v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf |
Swallow
(v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple |
Swallow
(v. t.) To engross |
Swallow
(v. t.) To occupy |
Swallow
(v. t.) To seize and waste |
Swallow
(v. t.) To retract |
Swallow
(v. t.) To put up with |
Swallow
(v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing |
Swallow
(n.) The act of swallowing. |
Swallow
(n.) The gullet, or esophagus |
Swallow
(n.) Taste |
Swallow
(n.) Capacity for swallowing |
Swallow
(n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once |
Swallow
(n.) That which ingulfs |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) United by dovetailing |
Tailed
(a.) Having a tail |
Wedge-tailed
(a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate |
Wire-tailed
(a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
swan dive
swallow dive | a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water |
swallow
drink deglutition | the act of swallowing, one swallow of the liquid was enough, he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips |
green-tailed towhee
Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
| swallow | small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations |
barn swallow
chimney swallow Hirundo rustica | common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. |
cliff swallow
Hirundo pyrrhonota | North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
white-bellied swallow
tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
redtail red-tailed hawk
Buteo jamaicensis | dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
white-tailed kite
Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
zebra-tailed lizard
gridiron-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
sharp-tailed grouse
sprigtail
sprig tail
Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
| fairy swallow | fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet |
pin-tailed sandgrouse
pin-tailed grouse
Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
chimney swift
chimney swallow Chateura pelagica | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys |
| hummingbird | tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills, wings are specialized for vibrating flight |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
nail-tailed wallaby
nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
sea swallow
Sterna hirundo | common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage |
slender-tailed meerkat
Suricata suricatta | a meerkat with a thin and elongated tail |
freetail
free-tailed bat
freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
hawkmoth
hawk moth
sphingid
sphinx moth
hummingbird moth | any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed |
white-tailed jackrabbit
whitetail jackrabbit
Lepus townsendi | largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States, brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter, tail nearly always all white |
round-tailed muskrat
Florida water rat
Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
long-tailed porcupine
Trichys lipura | porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail |
Virginia deer
white tail
whitetail
white-tailed deer
whitetail deer
Odocoileus Virginianus | common North American deer, tail has a white underside |
black-tailed deer
blacktail deer
blacktail
Odocoileus hemionus columbianus | mule deer of western Rocky Mountains |
longtail weasel
long-tailed weasel
Mustela frenata | the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail |
pentail
pen-tail
pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
Madagascar cat
ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
a bassarisk
cacomistle
cacomixle
coon cat raccoon fox
ringtail ring-tailed cat
civet cat miner's cat
Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
| four-tailed bandage | a bandage consisting of a strip of cloth split in two on both ends, the central part is placed under the chin to restrict motion of the mandible and the tails are tied over the top of the head |
swallow-tailed coat
swallowtail
morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
swallow
sup | a small amount of liquid food, a sup of ale |
sinkhole
sink
swallow hole | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
celandine greater celandine
swallowwort swallow wort
Chelidonium majus | perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers |
scarlet wisteria tree
vegetable hummingbird
Sesbania grandiflora | a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers, tropical Australia and Asia, naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies |
| swallow | believe or accept without questioning or challenge, Am I supposed to swallow that story? |
accept live with
swallow | tolerate or accommodate oneself to, I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions, I swallowed the insult, She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies |
| swallow | keep from expressing, I swallowed my anger and kept quiet |