African
(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa. |
African
(n.) A native of Africa |
Bank bill
() In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency |
Bank bill
() In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency. |
Bill
(n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. |
Bill
(v. i.) To strike |
Bill
(v. i.) To join bills, as doves |
Bill
(n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern |
Bill
(n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle |
Bill
(n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. |
Bill
(n.) One who wields a bill |
Bill
(n.) A pickax, or mattock. |
Bill
(n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor |
Bill
(v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill. |
Bill
(n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law. |
Bill
(n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. |
Bill
(n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment |
Bill
(n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods |
Bill
(n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge |
Bill
(n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars |
Bill
(v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice. |
Bill
(v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill |
Bill book
() A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives. |
Bill broker
() One who negotiates the discount of bills. |
Bill holder
() A person who holds a bill or acceptance. |
Bill holder
() A device by means of which bills, etc., are held. |
Brown bill
() A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Crane's-bill
(n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill
(n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Duck's-bill
(a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Hedging bill
() A hedge bill. See under Hedge. |
Ivory-bill
(n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States. |
Open
(a.) Free of access |
Open
(a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like |
Open
(a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view |
Open
(a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted |
Open
(a.) Without reserve or false pretense |
Open
(a.) Not concealed or secret |
Open
(a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc. |
Open
(a.) Not settled or adjusted |
Open
(a.) Free |
Open
(a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs |
Open
(a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s. |
Open
(a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger |
Open
(a.) Produced by an open string |
Open
(n.) Open or unobstructed space |
Open
(v. t.) To make or set open |
Open
(v. t.) To spread |
Open
(v. t.) To disclose |
Open
(v. t.) To make known |
| open sesame | any very successful means of achieving a result |
| open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
open frame
break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
twin bill
doubleheader
double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
| bill | the entertainment offered at a public presentation |
| open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
| bill of review | a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it |
African clawed frog
Xenopus laevis | a tongueless frog native to Africa, established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals |
African chameleon
Chamaeleo chamaeleon | a chameleon found in Africa |
African monitor
Varanus niloticus | destroys crocodile eggs |
African crocodile
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus | a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa |
African coral snake
Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
beak
bill
neb nib
pecker | horny projecting mouth of a bird |
African grey
African gray
Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
| stork | large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage |
white stork
Ciconia ciconia | the common stork of Europe, white with black wing feathers and a red bill |
black stork
Ciconia nigra | Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below |
adjutant bird
adjutant
adjutant stork
Leptoptilus dubius | large Indian stork with a military gait |
marabou marabout
marabou stork
Leptoptilus crumeniferus | large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork, its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments |
policeman bird
black-necked stork
jabiru Xenorhyncus asiaticus | large mostly white Australian stork |
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 |
African hunting dog
hyena dog
Cape hunting dog
Lycaon pictus | a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs, now rare in settled area |
African wild ass
Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
green monkey
African green monkey
Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus | common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail |
African elephant
Loxodonta africana | an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks |
bill
peak
eyeshade
visor
vizor | a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes, he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead |
| bill billhook | a long-handled saw with a curved blade, he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree |
| fireplace hearth open fireplace | an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built, the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it, he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it, the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires |
kat
khat
qat
quat
cat Arabian tea
African tea | the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea, has the effect of a euphoric stimulant, in Yemen kat is used daily by % of adults |
open-air market
open-air marketplace
market square | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold |
| open circuit | an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows |
open-end wrench
tappet wrench | a wrench having parallel jaws at fixed separation (often on both ends of the handle) |
| open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
| open sight | rear gunsight having an open notch instead of a peephole or telescope |
| open weave | a weave in which warp threads never come together, leaving interstices in the fabric |
| open door | freedom of access, he maintained an open door for all employees |
open
surface | information that has become public, all the reports were out in the open, the facts had been brought to the surface |
open interval
unbounded interval | an interval that does not include its endpoints |
| bill of health | a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival) |
| bill | a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) |
| bill of entry | a list of goods received at a customhouse for export or import |
| bill of goods | a consignment of merchandise |
menu
bill of fare
card carte du jour
carte | a list of dishes available at a restaurant, the menu was in French |
| bill account invoice | an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered, he paid his bill and left, send me an account of what I owe |
| electric bill | a bill for money owed for electricity used |
| hotel bill | statement of charges for staying in a hotel |
medical bill
doctor's bill | statement of charges for medical services |
phone bill
telephone bill | statement of charges for telephone service |