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Sifter :: Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture..

Vesicoprostatic :: Vesicoprostatic (a.) Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.

Longirostral :: Longirostral (a.) Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.

Avoset :: Avoset (n.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana..

Grovel :: Grovel (adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl..

Prone :: Prone (a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine..

Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust..

Sun-struck :: Sunstroke (n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil..

Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..

Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Arthrostraca :: Arthrostraca (n. pl.) One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda..

Rostra :: Rostra (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2..

Seasickness :: Seasickness (n.) The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel..

Arthromere :: Arthromere (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.

Cultirostral :: Cultirostral (a.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc..

Kotow :: Kotow (n.) The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings..

Prostration :: Prostration (n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor..

Flating :: Flating (a.) With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position..

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