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magpie
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Word definitions for magpie in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magpie \Mag"pie\, n. [OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita pearl, Gr. ?, prob. of Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and cf. the analogous ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a result, the magpie population dropped dramatically: in one village, from 259 birds to just 77. ▪ As she stepped out into the moonlight, two magpies landed on the thatch. ▪ As they reached the edge of the clearing Philip ...
Usage examples of magpie.
Madame Alp and, so as not to be ogled for free by the gathered gawks, went to wait in the tent wagon, where she could be company for Magpie Maggie Hag, still enfeebled by her premonitions or whatever was ailing her.
Elsewhere, Yount was helping Sarah kindle a campfire with some dead weed stalks, and Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag were moving about the lot, bent over, apparently in search of more substantial burnables.
Florian went to the far side of it and gave the fish to Magpie Maggie Hag.
Edge and Yount would have suspected it was the old circus gypsy doing some kind of impersonation, except that Magpie Maggie Hag now came from the other side of the tent, carrying a tiny cupcake on which stood a single candle.
Madame Magpie Maggie Hag, who will move among you during the interval.
Main Street across the fairground and into the tent, Florian, Edge, Yount and Magpie Maggie Hag sat together in the shade of the tent wagon.
Because Magpie Maggie Hag had only begun on the new costumes, Yount had contrived one of his own.
He still wore his old army boots, gray trousers and tunic with CSA brass buttons, but Magpie Maggie Hag had found for him somewhere a cocked hat, and stuck in it a huge plume that made him look as dandified as the notorious fops Stuart and Custer.
Mullenax, regarding Edge the way rube women regarded Magpie Maggie Hag when she spoke oracles.
Harrisonburg, Magpie Maggie Hag had finished the new ring dress for Edge and Yount.
Sarah, Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag up the long and curving staircase.
When Edge went to spread his bedroll in the open, under the stars, only Phoebe and Magpie Maggie Hag were still awake, sitting together beside the embers of the fire, conversing in murmurs.
Phoebe had waddled off to her wagon, Magpie Maggie Hag stayed awake most of the night, to look in on Rouleau at intervals.
Maggie Magpie Hag, who stayed to look after Rouleau, and Hannibal, who stayed to guard everything else.
So, after some days, when Magpie Maggie Hag had cut and sewn acrobat outfits for the three and they were decently covered, they were allowed out of the wagon to mingle with their new colleagues, and Quashee fed them when he fed Hannibal, and they returned to the museum only to sleep.