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Gregarious bird
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starling
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Starling is a messaging server that enables reliable distributed queuing with a minimal overhead. The code for Starling was originally developed inside social media firm Twitter and released as open source in 2008. The program was originally developed by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Sturnus vulgaris," Old English stærlinc "starling," with diminutive suffix -linc + stær "starling," from Proto-Germanic *staraz (cognates: Old English stearn , Old Norse stari , Norwegian stare , Old High German stara , German star "starling"), from PIE ...
Usage examples of starling.
By noon I was scrabbling through brushy places and over tumbles of bared rock with Starling at my heels.
The Duc grinned broadly as he rode, the ends of his burnouse trailing at the base of a conical steel helm, and his riders wheeled and turned like a flock of starlings, releasing a deadly shower of arrows.
The Due grinned broadly as he rode, the ends of his burnouse trailing at the base of a conical steel helm, and his riders wheeled and turned like a flock of starlings, releasing a deadly shower of arrows.
Jama Masjid, in the dervishes of litter along Chandni Chowk, in the starlings swirling above Connaught Circus.
It was like being a member of a band of starlings, or of roosting rooks.
Searchlight, Airborne, 118-19 Shipwrecked crew rescue, 20,41-3,76 Siegmann, Paul, 146 Silver Sandal, SS, 9j Snorkel, see Schnorchel Snowberry, HMS, corvette, 159 Spain, 105, in, 112,147-8 Speer, Albert, 3,204,205 Spinanger, SS, 191 Spreewald, SS, 44-7 Squid, depth charge, 188-9 Starling, HMS, sloop, 171,188-9,191 Steiger, Lt.
At the final flourish the soloist stood and acknowledged the applause that floated over the grass and sent the London starlings whirling into the bland sky.
Only the teamsters and the minstrel Starling seemed to have known when to stop drinking.
I was trying to rinse grit from my eyes when Starling came up beside me.
I gathered the beer had been good, the wine poor, while the resident minstrel had had small goodwill toward Starling for performing for his captive audience.
I was uncomfortably aware that Starling had stirred it up intending for me to hear it.
Drew the teamster told me what they were saying in town, after Starling told that tale last night.
I decided that if I did, Tassin and Starling would only become certain that they had guessed correctly.
And if they were not seeking me, to flee would only attract their attention, and make both Tassin and Starling certain in their suspicions.
I lay under the cart as if sleeping and watched, not the guardsmen, but Starling and Tassin.