Antenna (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids. |
Baggage master () One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. |
Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky |
Block (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. |
Block (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. |
Block (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat. |
Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building |
Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. |
Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force |
Block (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. |
Block (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction |
Block (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. |
Block (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. |
Block (v. t.) A blockhead |
Block (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. |
Block (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress |
Block (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks |
Block (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block |
Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types. |
Block tin () See under Tin. |
Collective (a.) Formed by gathering or collecting |
Collective (a.) Deducing consequences |
Collective (a.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form |
Collective (a.) Tending to collect |
Collective (a.) Having plurality of origin or authority |
Collective (n.) A collective noun or name. |
Combined (imp. & p. p.) of Combine |
Combined (a.) United closely |
Common (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one |
Common (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together |
Common (v.) Often met with |
Common (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional |
Common (v.) Profane |
Common (v.) Given to habits of lewdness |
Common (n.) The people |
Common (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public |
Common (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons |
Common (v. i.) To converse together |
Common (v. i.) To participate. |
Common (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. |
Common (v. i.) To board together |
Common sense () See Common sense, under Sense. |
Communal (a.) Pertaining to a commune. |
Community (n.) Common possession or enjoyment |
Community (n.) A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations |
Community (n.) Society at large |
Community (n.) Common character |
Community (n.) Commonness |
Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle. |
Harbor master () An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. |
block grant | a grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs, block grants reduce federal responsibility for social welfare |
block vote | a vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents |
blocking block | the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements |
trap block | (American football) an illegal block |
combined operation | a military operation carried out cooperatively by two or more allied nations or a military operation carried out by coordination of sea, land, and air forces |
community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
common shiner silversides Notropis cornutus | the common North American shiner |
common canary Serinus canaria | native to the Canary Islands and Azores, popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song |
common yellowthroat Maryland yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas | an American warbler |
common starling Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
common European jay Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
common nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes | Old World nutcracker |
common newt Triturus vulgaris | small semiaquatic salamander |
common snapping turtle snapper Chelydra serpentina | large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water, prone to bite |
common iguana iguana Iguana iguana | large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back, used as human food in Central America and South America |
common kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus | widespread in United States except northern regions, black or brown with yellow bands |
common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
adder common viper Vipera berus | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
common scoter Melanitta nigra | a variety of scoter |
common brant goose Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
common opossum Didelphis virginiana Didelphis marsupialis | omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States, noted for feigning death when in danger, esteemed as food in some areas, considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America |
common wallaby Macropus agiles | a small wallaby having a height ofinches |
common shrew Sorex araneus | common American shrew |
common roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
common limpet Patella vulgata | marine limpet |
common spoonbill Platalea leucorodia | pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa |
common murre Uria aalge | the most frequent variety of murre |
finback finback whale fin whale common rorqual Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
common dolphin Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
pilot whale black whale common blackfish blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
harbor seal common seal Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
common lynx Lynx lynx | of northern Eurasia |
common louse Pediculus humanus | head or body louse |
common mosquito Culex pipiens | common house mosquito |
common wasp Vespula vulgaris | a variety of vespid wasp |
common pond-skater Gerris lacustris | a variety of water strider |
common booklouse Trogium pulsatorium | a variety of booklouse |
common European earwig Forficula auricularia | sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs |
common zebra Burchell's zebra Equus Burchelli | of the plains of central and eastern Africa |
common eland Taurotragus oryx | dark fawnolored eland of southern and eastern Africa |
common raccoon common racoon coon ringtail Procyon lotor | North American raccoon |
common eel freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn, found in Europe and America, marketed both fresh and smoked |
common American shad Alosa sapidissima | shad of Atlantic coast of North America, naturalized to Pacific coast |
antenna feeler | one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans, typically sensitive to touch and taste |
common mackerel shiner Scomber scombrus | important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean, its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales |
antenna aerial transmitting aerial | an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals |
auction block block | a platform from which an auctioneer sells, they put their paintings on the block |
block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides), the pyramids were built with large stone blocks |