Bald eagle
() The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. |
Bold eagle
() an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. |
Cold-short
(a.) Brittle when cold |
Eagle
(n.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus) |
Eagle
(n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. |
Eagle
(n.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila. |
Eagle
(n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. |
Eagle-eyed
(a.) Sharp-sighted as an eagle. |
Eagle-sighted
(a.) Farsighted and strong-sighted |
Eagle-winged
(a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
Fin-toed
(a.) Having toes connected by a membrane |
Gier-eagle
(n.) A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus). |
Hot-short
(a.) More or less brittle when heated |
Red-short
(a.) Hot-short |
Sea eagle
() Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail |
Sea eagle
() The eagle ray. See under Ray. |
Short
(superl.) Not long |
Short
(superl.) Not extended in time |
Short
(superl.) Limited in quantity |
Short
(superl.) Insufficiently provided |
Short
(superl.) Deficient |
Short
(superl.) Not distant in time |
Short
(superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp |
Short
(superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful |
Short
(superl.) Abrupt |
Short
(superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth |
Short
(superl.) Brittle. |
Short
(superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed |
Short
(adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance |
Short
(n.) A summary account. |
Short
(n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. |
Short
(n.) Short, inferior hemp. |
Short
(n.) Breeches |
Short
(n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. |
Short
(adv.) In a short manner |
Short
(v. t.) To shorten. |
Short
(v. i.) To fail |
Short-breathed
(a.) Having short-breath, or quick respiration. |
Short-breathed
(a.) Having short life. |
Short circuit
() A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. |
Short-circuited
(imp. & p. p.) of Short-circuit |
Short-circuiting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Short-circuit |
Short-circuit
(v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance. |
Short-dated
(a.) Having little time to run from the date. |
Short-handed
(a.) Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. |
Short-jointed
(a.) Having short intervals between the joints |
Short-lived
(a.) Not living or lasting long |
Short-spoken
(a.) Speaking in a quick or short manner |
Short-waisted
(a.) Having a short waist. |
Short-winded
(a.) Affected with shortness of breath |
short sale
short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
| short covering | the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale |
whist
long whist
short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
| spread eagle | a skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line |
shortstop
short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
nap
catnap
cat sleep
forty winks
short sleep
snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
| eagle ray | powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins, usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays |
spotted eagle ray
spotted ray
Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
Circaetus
genus Circaetus | harrier eagles |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
eagle
bird of Jove | any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight |
harpy harpy eagle
Harpia harpyja | large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America |
golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos | large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck |
tawny eagle
Aquila rapax | brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia |
bald eagle
American eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
| sea eagle | any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish |
Kamchatkan sea eagle
Stellar's sea eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus | found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific |
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 |
fishing eagle
Haliaeetus leucorhyphus | of southeast Europe and central Asia |
osprey
fish hawk
fish eagle
sea eagle Pandion haliaetus | large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years |
| web-toed salamander | any of several salamanders with webbed toes and very long extensile tongues, excellent climbers that move with ease over smooth rock surfaces |
fringe-toed lizard
Uma notata | with long pointed scales around toes, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
short-horned grasshopper
acridid | grasshopper with short antennae |
odd-toed ungulate
perissodactyl
perissodactyl mammal | placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot |
even-toed ungulate
artiodactyl
artiodactyl mammal | placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot |
three-toed sloth
ai
Bradypus tridactylus | a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot |
| two-toed sloth unau unai Choloepus didactylus | relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot |
| two-toed sloth unau unai Choloepus hoffmanni | a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot |
silky anteater
two-toed anteater
Cyclopes didactylus | squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur |
| short | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
short circuit
short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| short iron | an iron with a short shaft and pitched face, for hitting short high shots |
| short line | a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances |
short pants
shorts
trunks | trousers that end at or above the knee |
| short sleeve | a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow |
stop bath
short-stop
short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
short bone
os breve | a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions |
short gastric artery
arteria gastrica breves
vasa brevis | several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach |
| short saphenous vein | a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
| short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
short list
shortlist | a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
note short letter
line billet | a short personal letter, drop me a line when you get there |
| short account | the aggregate of short sales on an open market |
| eagle | an emblem representing power, the Roman eagle |