Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) The Australian brush turkey.
Waxbill :: Waxbill (n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds..
Waybill :: Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading..
Weather-bit :: Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits..
Weather-bitten :: Weather-bitten (a.) Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather..
Weatherbit :: Weatherbit (v. t.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass..
Webbing :: Webbing (n.) A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc..
Wedgebill :: Wedgebill (n.) An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives..
Weet-bird :: Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.
Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..
Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..
Wheelbird :: Wheelbird (n.) The European goatsucker.
Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..