Word Finder - swan

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Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.

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One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.

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This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).

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To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.

A swan dive off the roof sounds good right about now.

We found out that baby Swan are called cygnets.

Gladys is happy as hell about Shipton's swan dive.

Half soup, half stew, its " ugly duckling " looks hide the culinary swan beneath.

Laornis from the Cretaceous marls of New Jersey was as large as a swan.

His editorial work on the 17th-century poet Thomas Swan has been widely admired.

To this time may also belong a lost Leda, standing upright with the god in swan's guise at her side and the four children near their feet.

Of birds there are over loo species, more than one-half being aquatic. In the interior the whistling swan is common, and numerous varieties of ducks are found in the lakes.

The fruits do not usually exceed in size the dimensions of a hen's or of a swan's egg, but that of P. macrocarpa is a gourd-like oblong fruit attaining a weight of 7 to 8 lb.

Townley and Swan had, however, by this time left him, and after cruising together for some time, they, too, parted.

In American balladry he was pre-eminent; such pieces as " The Swan Song of Parson Avery," " Marguerite," " Barclay of Ury," " Skipper Ireson's Ride," " In the ` Old South,' " hold their place in literature.

Of C. coscoroba Mr Gibson remarks (Ibis, 1880, pp. 36, 37) that its "note is a loud trumpet-call," and that it swims with "the neck curved and the wings raised after the true swan model."

His grandfather was said to be Helias, knight of the Swan, one of the brothers whose adventures are well known, though with some variation, in the familiar fairy tale of "The Seven Swans."

Mongan king of Dalriada in the 7th century is stated to have passed after death into various shapes - a wolf, a stag, a salmon, a seal, a swan.

But the Zeus whose grave was shown in Crete, or the Zeus who played Demeter an obscene trick by the aid of a ram, or the Zeus who, in the shape of a swan, became the father of Castor and Pollux, or the Zeus who was merely a rough stone, or the Zeus who deceived Hera by means of a feigned marriage with an inanimate object, or the Zeus who was afraid of Attes, is a being whose myth is felt to be unnatural and in great need of explanation.

She stood on a ledge, considering a swan dive into the depths of the universe.

Back To Top Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus cygnus buccinator or Olor buccinator) Western North America.

Swan's measurements, which had misled Bent into accepting a chronology based on a supposed orientation of the "temple," had been shown to be inexact.

On Cook's death his successor, Edward Davis, undoubtedly the greatest and most prudent commander who ever led the forces of the buccaneers at sea, met with a certain Captain Swan from England, and the two captains began a cruise which was disastrous to the Spanish trade in the Pacific.

Helias, drawn by the swan, one day disembarked at Nijmwegen, and reconquered her territory for the duchess of Bouillon.

The bag is made with a graceful swan neck that holds the chanter at the correct position for playing.

Mr Swan spoke absolute cobblers all the way there.

They are rearing eight thriving cygnets, from an original nine, which we think may include four from our old Mrs Swan.

The son of an Australian male, whose kin or totem name is Crane, takes, in many tribes, his mother's kin-name, Swan or Cockatoo, or whatever it may be, and the same is a common rule in Africa and America among races who rarely remember their great-grandfathers.

Why did various royal houses claim descent from the ant, the swan, the she-bear, the serpent, the horse and so forth ?

The Greek myths of the descent of the Arcadians, Myrmidons, children of the swan, the cow, and so forth, inay be compared.

Pollen-grains are also spherical; cylindrical and curved, as in Tradescantia virginica; C From Vines' Students' Text-Book of Botany, by permission of Swan Sonnenschein & Co.

The top had a 3-D pastry crowned swan swimming along, fashioned around a metal armature.

Swan Fan Makkum - the largest brigantine in the world and one of the most striking sailing vessels currently roaming the seas.

As we were walking down to the beach we saw some coots and a swan with her baby cygnets.

There's fishwife Liza Swan carrying her heavy creel, and children with bare feet sitting on the ground baiting lines.

Linda will serve as a non-stipendiary curate in the parish of Hanley Castle, Hanley Swan and Welland.

A sword pressed against his side opposite a quiver of arrows fletched with swan feathers.

The Angel stood where Lloyds Bank now stands and the Swan was a little further in the present day Dudley Street.

John was born illegitimate at Cottingham as John SWAN, he moved to Elizabeth | Her parents were James and Jain.

The original black paintwork is still intact and the brass keyhole cover has a swan engraved and ' Improved Tumbler Lock ' .

Wandering Swan was on the stage in front of us, but when were awoke from our afternoon kip, it was gone.

O children, I shall sing a lamentation of a winged swan which crossed the great waters.

Over the summer our gift shop manageress, Pat Swan, retired.

The dead bird is thought to be a mute swan.

The first one, Swan, is one that she co-authored.

Wheatears were flying around as well, prior to emigration and the Mute Swan couple were accompanied by nine dirty gray cygnets.

The Uists and Benbecula are noted for their breeding mute swan and greylag geese as well as whooper swans and white-fronted geese and duck.

Most steering faults are the result of turning into or out of junctions too wide (swan necking ).

We saw peewit, swan, heron, shellduck and other duck on the landward side of the path.

The worry was that wild birds - such as the swan - could spread the virus to domestic poultry flocks.

Sebastian swan the little ones love them.We enjoy your books they are good.

Apparently it is very difficult to stifle a sneeze, even if you are a swan!

A brilliant three-hour opening to Europe became my swan song.

The Swan Fountain is a surviving example of local landowner Richard Rigby's attempt to develop Mistley into a fashionable spa.