Addle-headed
(a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
Beetle-headed
(a.) Dull |
Blackburnian warbler
() A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast. |
Bluff-headed
(a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
Buckler-headed
(a.) Having a head like a buckler. |
Buffle-headed
(a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo |
Burying ground
() Alt. of Burying place |
Chestnut
(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. |
Chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. |
Chestnut
(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut. |
Chestnut
(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England). |
Chestnut
(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals. |
Chestnut
(n.) An old joke or story. |
Chestnut
(a.) Of the color of a chestnut |
Clear-headed
(a.) Having a clear understanding |
Cool-headed
(a.) Having a temper not easily excited |
Dog-headed
(a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog |
Double-headed
(a.) Having two heads |
Dunder-headed
(a.) Thick-headed |
Feather-headed
(a.) Giddy |
Flat-headed
(a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Giddy-headed
(a.) Thoughtless |
Ground
(imp. & p. p.) of Grind |
Gross-headed
(a.) Thick-skulled |
Ground
(n.) The surface of the earth |
Ground
(n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. |
Ground
(n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface |
Ground
(n.) Land |
Ground
(n.) The basis on which anything rests |
Ground
(n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another |
Ground
(n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief. |
Ground
(n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied |
Ground
(n.) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle. |
Ground
(n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached |
Ground
(n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody. |
Ground
(n.) The tune on which descants are raised |
Ground
(n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit. |
Ground
(n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids |
Ground
(n.) The pit of a theater. |
Ground
(v. t.) To lay, set, or run, on the ground. |
Ground
(v. t.) To found |
Ground
(v. t.) To instruct in elements or first principles. |
Ground
(v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit. |
Ground
(v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5) |
Ground
(v. i.) To run aground |
Ground
() imp. & p. p. of Grind. |
Hard-headed
(a.) Having sound judgment |
Headed
(imp. & p. p.) of Head |
Headed
(a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties) |
Headed
(a.) Formed into a head |
grounder
ground ball
groundball
hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground |
| ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
dark ground illumination
dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
| ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
| warbler | a small active songbird |
Old World warbler
true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
| wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
sedge warbler
sedge bird
sedge wren reedbird Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa |
| wren warbler | small Asiatic and African bird, constructs nests like those of tailorbirds |
New World warbler
wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
parula warbler
northern parula
Parula americana | small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast, of eastern North America |
Wilson's warbler
Wilson's blackcap
Wilsonia pusilla | yellow wood warbler with a black crown |
| flycatching warbler | any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing |
Cape May warbler
Dendroica tigrina | North American wood warbler, olive green and yellow striped with black |
yellow warbler
golden warbler
yellowbird Dendroica petechia | yellow-throated American wood warbler |
Blackburn
Blackburnian warbler
Dendroica fusca | black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat |
Audubon's warbler
Audubon warbler
Dendroica auduboni | common warbler of western North America |
myrtle warbler
myrtle bird
Dendroica coronata | similar to Audubon's warbler |
blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
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 |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
ground-shaker
seismosaur | huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America |
ground snake
Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightlyinged terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |
eastern ground snake
Potamophis striatula
Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
| 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 |
ground rattler
massasauga Sistrurus miliaris | small pygmy rattlesnake |
| ground roller | Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
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 |
ground beetle
carabid beetle | predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects |
ground squirrel
gopher spermophile | any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds, often destroy crops |
mantled ground squirrel
Citellus lateralis | common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America, resembles a large chipmunk |
flickertail
Richardson ground squirrel
Citellus richardsoni | of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada |
Arctic ground squirrel
parka squirrel
Citellus parryi | large ground squirrel of the North American far north |
eastern chipmunk
hackee
striped squirrel
ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
| chestnut | a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse |
| liver chestnut | a solid dark brown horse |
barren ground caribou
Rangifer arcticus | of tundra of northern Canada, in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus |
ground sloth
megathere | gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America |
| chestnut | a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg |
air-to-ground missile
air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
anchor
ground tackle | a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving |
flat coat
ground
primer priming primer coat
priming coat
undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
gaffsail
gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
| ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |
| ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
| ground bait | bait scattered on the water to attract fish |
| ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
| ground control | a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a groundontrolled approach to landing |