Crossword clues for babbler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrush \Thrush\, n. [OE. [thorn]rusche, AS. [thorn]rysce; akin to OHG. drosca, droscea, droscela, and E. throstle. Cf. Throstle.]
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
Note: Among the best-known European species are the song thrush or throstle ( Turdus musicus), the missel thrush (see under Missel), the European redwing, and the blackbird. The most important American species are the wood thrush ( Turdus mustelinus), Wilson's thrush ( Turdus fuscescens), the hermit thrush (see under Hermit), Swainson's thrush ( Turdus Alici[ae]), and the migratory thrush, or American robin (see Robin).
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush. Ant thrush. See Ant thrush, Breve, and Pitta. Babbling thrush, any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline birds; -- called also babbler. Fruit thrush, any species of bulbul. Shrike thrush. See under Shrike. Stone thrush, the missel thrush; -- said to be so called from its marbled breast. Thrush nightingale. See Nightingale, 2. Thrush tit, any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds of the genus Cochoa. They are beautifully colored birds allied to the tits, but resembling thrushes in size and habits. Water thrush.
The European dipper.
An American warbler ( Seiurus Noveboracensis).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who babbles. 2 Any of several passerine birds, of the families ''Timaliidae'' (found in Asia, Africa) and ''Pomatostomidae'' (found in Australia). 3 (context dated English) A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Babbler may refer to:
- Old World babbler, a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds
- Australo-Papuan babbler, passerine birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea
- The Babbler, the journal of BirdLife International in Indochina
- The Babbler, the occasional newsletter of the Murray Goulburn Bird Observers Club
- Vic Babbler, the newsletter of Birds Australia - Victoria
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the babbler is a type of fictional monster.
Babbler is a French software company founded in September 2012 by sisters Hannah Oiknine and Sarah Azan. Babbler is headquartered in Paris and opened a second office in New York City in September 2015. Babbler is an opt-in social network that is exclusive to public relations professionals and members of the media. Babbler took part in the interactive track of the 2016 SXSW festival as an exhibitor. Soon after, in April 2016, Babbler closed a series A funding round worth 2 million euros from leading European venture capitalists.
Usage examples of "babbler".
He was s babbler, who understood a story badly, and repeated it worse.
Paris, which is now more zealous in the study of antiquity than in the subtle investigation of truth, did English subtlety, which illumined by the lights of former times is always sending forth fresh rays of truth, produce anything to the advancement of science or the declaration of the faith, this was instantly poured still fresh into our ears, ungarbled by any babbler, unmutilated by any trifler, but passing straight from the purest of wine-presses into the vats of our memory to be clarified.
And the foulest babbler of them all, hot with the exercise of the indecent gestures wherewith he illustrated his filthy tale, had slunk off like a pariah dog.
If her gentle, questioning eyes happened to rest on him at such times, something very like a blush rose into his face, and the babbler was silenced with a terribly significant look.
The true artist knows that his hero must be a character shaping events and shaped by them, and not a babbler about literature.
Now has Bertrand made his plea and complaint to the emperor in the hearing of all, but they consider him an idle babbler because he says that he has seen the empress stark naked.
Ignorant advocates and babblers have asked, in the Club of Clichy, why we occupy the territory of Venice.
The men whom he most disliked were those whom he called babblers, who are continually prating of everything and on everything.
Constant in his hatred of deliberative assemblies, which he had often termed collections of babblers, ideologists, and phrasemongers, Napoleon, on his return to Paris, suppressed the Tribunate, which had been an annoyance to him ever since the first day of his elevation.
There are certain babblers, babblers of genius are they, who sweep up interruptions, objections, and observations in this way as they go along, by way of provision to swell the matter of their conversation, as if that source were ever in any danger of running dry.
Many of these babblers are quite huge, much bigger than your average usher.
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.
And that I am not Shahpesh I regret, So to inmesh the babbler in his net.
Many of these babblers are quite huge, much bigger than your average usher.
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.