Bed rock
() The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Flour
(n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain |
Flour
(v. t.) To grind and bolt |
Flour
(v. t.) To sprinkle with flour. |
Glacial
(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action |
Glacial
(a.) Resembling ice |
Meal
(n.) A part |
Meal
(n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite |
Meal
(n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted |
Meal
(n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated. |
Meal
(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal. |
Meal
(v. t.) To pulverize |
Meal-mouthed
(a.) See Mealy-mouthed. |
Milk
(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. |
Milk
(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants |
Milk
(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds |
Milk
(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. |
Milk
(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth |
Milk
(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder |
Milk
(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking |
Milk
(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk. |
Milk-livered
(a.) White-livered |
Milk vetch
() A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. |
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 |
Rock shaft
() A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff
(v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Wolf's-milk
(n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
milk snake
house snake
milk adder
checkered adder
Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
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 |
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 |
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 |
flour beetle
flour weevil | an insect that infests flour and stored grains |
Mediterranean flour moth
Anagasta kuehniella | small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour |
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 |
dairy cattle
dairy cow
milch cow
milk cow
milcher
milker | cattle that are reared for their milk |
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 |
| flour bin | a bin for holding flour |
| flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
| milk bar | snack bar that sells milk drinks and light refreshments (such as ice cream) |
| milk can | large can for transporting milk |
| milk float | a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses |
| milk of magnesia | purgative consisting of a milky white liquid suspension of magnesium hydroxide, used as a laxative and (in smaller doses) as an antacid |
milk wagon
milkwagon | wagon for delivering milk |
rock bit
roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden
rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
primary tooth
deciduous tooth
baby tooth
milk tooth | one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one ofin children) |
| milk | produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young |
| mother's milk | milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth |
meal ticket
luncheon voucher | coupon redeemable at a restaurant and entitling the holder to a meal |
| 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 |
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 |
psychedelic rock
acid rock | a musical style that emerged in the s, rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience |
punk rock
punk | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation, in part a reaction against progressive rock |
| meal | coarsely ground foodstuff, especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse |