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Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

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).

Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

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

Copeck :: Copeck (n.) A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

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

Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot..

Speck :: Speck (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money..

Bespeckle :: Bespeckle (v. t.) To mark with speckles or spots.

Variolitic :: Variolitic (a.) Thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted..

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

Homer :: Homer (n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts..

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Kenspeckle :: Kenspeckle (a.) Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.

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

Opopanax :: Opopanax (n.) The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic..

Hewhole :: Hewhole (n.) The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

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..

Peckled :: Peckled (a.) Speckled; spotted.

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