Crossword clues for skylark
skylark
- Shelley subject
- Bird known to sing while flying
- Indulge in horseplay
- Engage in horseplay
- Speckled bird
- Old Buick model
- Johnny Mercer jazz standard with the lyric "My heart is riding on your wings"
- Certain old Buick
- Buick named after a bird
- Buick model introduced in 1953
- Bird that sings aloft
- "To a ____"
- Brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height
- Songbird
- Spree in the ether?
- Soaring songbird
- Singer’s TV fun
- Hovering singer
- Hovering bird
- Bit of fun following the blue bird
- TV presenter briefly in Channel Island with bird
- Small songbird
- Buick model
- Play boisterously
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skylark \Sky"lark`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species ( Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.
Note: The Australian skylark ( Cincloramphus cantillans) is a pipit which has the habit of ascending perpendicularly like a skylark, but it lacks the song of a true lark. The Missouri skylark is a pipit ( Anthus Spraguei) of the Western United States, resembling the skylark in habit and song.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small brown passerine bird, ''Alauda arvensis'', that sings as it flies high into the air. vb. (context originally nautical English) To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
WordNet
n. brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height [syn: Alauda arvensis]
v. play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about]
Wikipedia
Skylark is a species of passerine bird. Skylark may also refer to:
Skylark was a British sounding rocket design. The Skylark was first launched in 1957 from Woomera, Australia and its 441st and final launch took place from Esrange, Sweden on 2 May 2005. Launches had been carried out from sites in Europe, Australia, and South America, with use far beyond the UK by NASA, the European Space Research Organisation ( ESRO), and German and Swedish space organizations.
Skylark is an imprint of Bantam Books which publishes books for children.
Category:Random House
"Skylark" is an American popular song with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael, published in 1941. Mercer said that he struggled for a year after he got the music from Carmichael before he could get the lyrics right. Mercer recalled Carmichael initially called him several times about the lyric, but had forgotten about it by the time Mercer finally wrote the lyrics. The yearning expressed in the lyrics is Mercer's longing for Judy Garland, with whom Mercer had an affair. This song is considered a jazz standard. Additionally, the song is believed to have inspired a long-running Buick car of the same name that was produced from 1953 to 1998.
Skylark is an Italian power metal band founded in 1994 by Eddy Antonini and is still active today.
Skylark is a 1994 children's historical novel by Patricia MacLachlan, the sequel to the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall. The novel follows the lives of the Witting family after the arrival of Sarah Wheaton.
Skylark is a 1941 film directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Recording ( Loren L. Ryder, Paramount SSD).
Skylark (also titled Skylark: The Sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall) is a sequel to the film Sarah, Plain and Tall. It was followed by another sequel, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End. It aired in 1993 on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, and now is regularly shown on Hallmark Channel. Glenn Close was nominated for the 1993 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries.
Skylark is an album by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond featuring Gábor Szabó recorded in 1973 and released on the CTI label.
Skylark is a live album by the Shirley Scott Trio recorded in 1991 at Birdland and released on the Candid label.
Skylark is a science fiction/ space opera series by E. E. "Doc" Smith. The first book The Skylark of Space (first published in Amazing Stories in 1928) is revolutionary in the genre, in which a scientist discovers a space-drive, builds a starship, and flies off with three companions to encounter alien civilizations and fight a larger-than-life villain.
The Skylark of Space was the first ever of a series which continued through three subsequent books— Skylark Three and Skylark of Valeron written during the 1930s, and Skylark DuQuesne (DuQuesne is pronounced "Du Kane"), written in 1963. R. D. Mullen declared that "The great success of the stories was surely due first of all to the skill with which Smith mixed elements of the spy thriller and the western story (our hero is the fastest gun in space, our villain the second fastest) with those of the traditional cosmic voyage."
Usage examples of "skylark".
Certainly she was a good girl, but she was seen at all hours here and there about Bonneville and Guadalajara, skylarking with the Portuguese farm hands of Quien Sabe and Los Muertos.
He had a sweet singing voice, a true ear, and a love of music, so that his mother, Tuly, called him Songsparrow and Skylark, among other loving names, for she never really did like Diamond.
There were skylarks soaring to heaven, and woodlarks uttering their quiet sweet notes, and blackbirds with their pipes and cymbals.
Full she might be, but after a few days of this skylarking the Principessa was a happy ship.
Skylark whose glistening winglets ascending Quiver like pulses beneath the melodious dawn?
Skylark was to be the first really pimp ride in the Hays household since Melanie had been alive.
The Skylark stories had been carried as far as Smith planned, and he now proceeded on what he thought would be a new series.
She settled on a three-year-old Buick Skylark, two-tone blue with twenty-eight thousand miles on the odometer, and paid sixty-eight hundred bucks after haggling with the used car manager at Don Snell Buick for a couple of weeks.
The Volvo had been her transportation for eight long years, the car in which her daughter Melanie had grown into teen hood As the salesman drove the heap to the rear of the lot, Sharon stood beside her shiny late-model Skylark and wiped away a tear.
Over the meadows the cowslips are springing, The marshes are thick with king-cup gold, Clear is the cry of the lambs in the fold, The skylark is singing, and singing, and singing.
Rounding on thy breast sings the dew-delighted skylark, Clear as though the dewdrops had their voice in him.
The wind was growing warmer across the grass, and far above him, piercingly sweet, he heard skylarks singing.
Skylark whose glistening winglets ascending Quiver like pulses beneath the melodious dawn?
Although some of the younger topmen, little more than boys, skylarked in the upper rigging, following-my-leader from truck to truck and back by the crosstrees to the jib-boom strap, the atmosphere aboard was grave.
No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-and-Sour Metro Bus, Honda Bolognese with Burning Clutch Sauce.