Base-court (n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house |
Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record. |
Court (n.) An inclosed space |
Court (n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary |
Court (n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority |
Court (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign |
Court (n.) Attention directed to a person in power |
Court (n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. |
Court (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice |
Court (n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. |
Court (n.) The judge or judges |
Court (n.) The session of a judicial assembly. |
Court (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. |
Court (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis |
Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery |
Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of |
Court (v. t.) To attempt to gain |
Court (v. t.) To invite by attractions |
Court (v. i.) To play the lover |
Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward |
Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts. |
Court-cupboard (n.) A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. |
Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. |
Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law. |
Court-martialed (imp. & p. p.) of Court-martial |
Court-martialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court-martial |
Court-martial (v. t.) To subject to trial by a court-martial. |
Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin. |
Court tennis () See under Tennis. |
Fair-world (n.) State of prosperity. |
World (n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens |
World (n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests |
World (n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns |
World (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one |
World (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men |
World (n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life |
World (n.) The inhabitants of the earth |
World (n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven |
World (n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity |
World-wide (a.) Extended throughout the world |
world record | the best record in the whole world |
court game | an athletic game played on a court |
royal tennis real tennis court tennis | an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court |
world war | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
world affairs international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
contempt of court | disrespect for the rules of a court of law |
court-martial | a trial that is conducted by a military court |
the way of the world the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen, the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world, she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil, he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world |
court homage | respectful deference, pay court to the emperor |
appearance appearing coming into court | formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action |
Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
World War I World War Great War First World War War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
World War II World War Second World War | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from to |
New World goldfinch goldfinch yellowbird Spinus tristis | American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer |
New World sparrow | sparrow-like North American finches |
New World flycatcher flycatcher tyrant flycatcher tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
Old World flycatcher true flycatcher flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Old World chat chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
robin redbreast robin redbreast Old World robin Erithacus rubecola | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast |
Old World warbler true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
New World warbler wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
New World chat chat | birds having a chattering call |
New World oriole American oriole oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
New World blackbird blackbird | any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black |
Old World oriole oriole | mostly tropical songbird, the male is usually bright orange and black |
Old World jay | a European jay |
New World jay | a North American jay |
Old World vulture | any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia |
New World vulture cathartid | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures |
Old World scops owl Otus scops | European scops owl |
coral snake harlequin-snake New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
Old World crayfish ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America |
Old World coot Fulica atra | a coot found in Eurasia |
Old world white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
European rabbit Old World rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus | common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere, widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs, young are born naked and helpless |
New World mouse | a variety of rodent |
Old World porcupine | terrestrial porcupine |
New World porcupine | arboreal porcupine |
Old World beaver Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
New World beaver Castor canadensis | a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida |
New World tapir Tapirus terrestris | a tapir found in South America and Central America |
Old World buffalo buffalo | any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo |
New World least weasel Mustela rixosa | of Canada and northeastern United States |
Old World least weasel Mustela nivalis | of Europe |
anteater New World anteater | any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
world human race humanity humankind human beings humans mankind man | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth, all the world loves a lover, she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women |
Old World monkey catarrhine | of Africa or Arabia or Asia, having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together |
New World monkey platyrrhine platyrrhinian | hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails |