Spoon-billed

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• Billed

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Bill>>. II. Billed ·adj Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; — used in...

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• Spoon

  ·noun Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. II. Spoon ·vi ·see <<Spoom>>. III. Spoon ·vt To take up in, or...

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• Duck-billed

  ·adj Having a bill like that of a duck. ...

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• Hook-billed

  ·adj Having a strongly curved bill. ...

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• Stork-billed

  ·adj Having a bill like that of the stork. ...

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• Heart-spoon

  ·noun A part of the breastbone. ...

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• Spoon-meat

  ·noun Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. ...

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• spoon hand

  The right hand. ...

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• wooden spoon

  (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See wranglers, optime. ...

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• spoon-drift

  A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...

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• spoon-ways

  In slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to move w...

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• wry-billed plover

  n. a very rare birdof New Zealand, Anarhynchus frontalis, Quoy and Gaim. 1889. Prof. Parker, `Cata...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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