Bed rock
() The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Country
(adv.) A tract of land |
Country
(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. |
Country
(adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region |
Country
(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. |
Country
(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn. |
Country
(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs. |
Country
(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city |
Country
(a.) Destitute of refinement |
Country
(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. |
Country-base
(n.) Same as Prison base. |
Country-dance
(n.) See Contradance. |
Country seat
() A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. |
Eel-mother
(n.) The eelpout. |
Mother
(n.) A female parent |
Mother
(n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything |
Mother
(n.) An old woman or matron. |
Mother
(n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc. |
Mother
(n.) Hysterical passion |
Mother
(a.) Received by birth or from ancestors |
Mother
(v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter |
Mother
(n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation. |
Mother
(v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar. |
Mother-in-law
(n.) The mother of one's husband or wife. |
Mother-naked
(a.) Naked as when born. |
Mother-of-pearl
(n.) The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells |
Mother-of-thyme
(n.) An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum) |
Native
(a.) Arising by birth |
Native
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth |
Native
(a.) Born in the region in which one lives |
Native
(a.) Original |
Native
(a.) Conferred by birth |
Native
(a.) Naturally related |
Native
(a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements |
Native
(a.) Found in nature |
Native
(n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to |
Native
(n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. |
Parent
(n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring |
Parent
(n.) That which produces |
Rock
(n.) See Roc. |
Rock
(n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
| parent | an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained |
| native | indigenous plants and animals |
| rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock
careen
sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
country-dance
country dancing
contredanse
contra danse
contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
| cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
| cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
| rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
| rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python
rock snake
Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake
Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
| Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
| Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
| mother hen | a hen with chicks |
Greek partridge
rock partridge
Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove
rock pigeon
Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby
rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
koala
koala bear
kangaroo bear
native bear
Phascolarctos cinereus | sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat, feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark |
native cat
Dasyurus viverrinus | carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania |
rock crab
Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster
langouste
rock lobster
crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle
rock barnacle
Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper
crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
Mother Carey's chicken
Mother Carey's hen
Oceanites oceanicus | medium-sized storm petrel |
pika
mouse hare
rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel
Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax
rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
rock bass rock sunfish
Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass
rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind
Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty
Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel
butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
| country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
CPU board
mother board | the main circuit board for a computer |
Mother Hubbard
muumuu | a woman's loose unbelted dress |
rock bit
roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden
rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
| mother's milk | milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth |
common sense
good sense
gumption
horse sense
sense mother wit | sound practical judgment, Common sense is not so common, he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples, fortunately she had the good sense to run away |
| mother | a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation, necessity is the mother of invention |
fundamentals
basics
fundamental principle
basic principle
bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
| rock opera | albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art, first appeared in the s |
| rock concert | a performance of rock music |
| native language | the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood |
mother tongue
maternal language
first language | one's native language, the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
country music
country and western
C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
rock 'n' roll
rock'n'roll
rock-andoll
rock and roll
rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
progressive rock
art rock | a style of rock music that emerged in the s, associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms, intended for listening and not dancing |