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Scansorial :: Scansorial (a.) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot..

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.

Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.

Sheld :: Sheld (a.) Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.

Witwall :: Witwall (n.) The greater spotted woodpecker.

Bath :: Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure..

Spaky :: Spaky (a.) Specky.

Specked :: Specked (imp. & p. p.) of Spec.

Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

Speckt :: Speckt (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.

Peck :: Peck (v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree..

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Woodchuck :: Woodchuck (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker..

Flicker :: Flicker (n.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca..

Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..

Peck :: Peck (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Quartern :: Quartern (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.)..

Henpeck :: Henpeck (v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

Buck-eyed :: Buck-eyed (a.) Having bad or speckled eyes.

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