Crossword clues for canary
canary
- Informant about to spin a yarn
- Stool pigeon
- Yellow shade
- Shade of yellow
- Yellow finch
- Singing bird
- Tweety, e.g
- Pet bird
- Household warbler
- Finch variety
- Spain's ... Islands
- Bird in a coal mine
- Yellow song bird
- Tweety, for one
- Tweety the toon for one,
- Spanish island group
- Singer in a cage
- Popular cagebird
- Popular cage bird, often yellow
- Pet songbird
- Harz mountain output
- Coal mine creature
- Cat that swallowed the _____
- Atlantic isles, or a migratory bird
- "In the coal mine" bird
- Informer
- Yellow bird
- Singer or color
- One who sings to the cops
- Bird in a cage
- Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- (informal) a female singer
- A moderate yellow with a greenish tinge
- Any of several small Old World finches
- A small finch
- Small finch
- Atlantic islands
- Light yellow
- Grant, say, protecting an island songbird
- Caged song bird
- Songbird once used to detect toxic gases in mines
- Singer keen to collect articles
- Singer is able to modulate after losing voice initially
- Flyer complained after vacation about flying Ryanair across Belgium
- Yellow songbird
- Yellow bird, a short-tailed duck crossing channel? Yes
- Bright yellow shade
- Bright yellow finch
- Bird call receiving an answer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canary \Ca*na"ry\, a. [F. Canarie, L. Canaria insula one of the Canary islands, said to be so called from its large dogs, fr. canis dog.]
Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
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Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
Canary grass, a grass of the genus Phalaris ( Phalaris Canariensis), producing the seed used as food for canary birds.
Canary stone (Min.), a yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird.
Canary wood, the beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and Persea Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.
Canary \Ca*na"ry\, n.; pl. Canaries.
Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. ``A cup of canary.''
--Shak.A canary bird.
A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
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A quick and lively dance. [Obs.]
Make you dance canary With sprightly fire and motion.
--Shak.
Canary \Ca*na"ry\, v. i. To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [Obs.]
But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it
with your feet.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of small songbird, 1650s (short for Canary-bird, 1570s), from French canarie, from Spanish canario "canary bird," literally "of the Canary Islands," from Latin Insula Canaria "Canary Island," largest of the Fortunate Isles, literally "island of dogs" (canis, genitive canarius; see canine (n.)), so called because large dogs lived there. The name was extended to the whole island group (Canariæ Insulæ) by the time of Arnobius (c.300). As a type of wine (from the Canary Islands) from 1580s.
Wiktionary
Of a light yellow colour. n. 1 A small, usually yellow, finch (genus ''Serinus''), a songbird native to the Canary Islands. 2 Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour. 3 A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour. 4 A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands. 5 A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called ''canaries''). 6 Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.) 7 (context informal English) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer. 8 (context slang English) An informer or snitch; a squealer. 9 (context slang English) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal). 10 (context Australia informal English) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness. v
1 (context intransitive English) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance) 2 (context slang English) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
WordNet
n. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker]
a female singer
a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary yellow]
any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary bird]
adj. having the color of a canary; a light to moderate yellow [syn: canary-yellow]
Wikipedia
Canary originally referred to the island of Gran Canaria on the west coast of Africa, and the group of surrounding islands (the Canary Islands). It may also refer to:
"Canary" is the fourteenth episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 224th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on February 5, 2013. The episode is written by Christopher J. Waild and directed by Terrence O’Hara, and was seen by 21.79 million viewers.
Usage examples of "canary".
Pippinella, the green canary--half canary, half greenfinch--whom Doctor Dolittle had bought from a pet shop, and how she became the prima donna of his opera company.
House 9 The Old Windmill PART TWO 1 The Green Canary Learns to Fly 2 Nippit, the Greenfinch 3 Ebony Island 4 Pippinella Finds a Clue 5 The Window-Cleaner at Last!
Adventures 7 The Ragged Tramp PART THREE 1 The Canary Opera 2 The Green Parrot has a Clue 3 Cheapside Helps the Doctor 4 John Dolittle, M.
The Window-Cleaner Tells his Name 6 The Search for the Missing Papers 7 The Secret Hiding Place 8 The Thief Escapes 9 The Runaway Coach 10 The Papers Recovered--and Puddleby Again FOREWORD When my husband, Hugh Lofting, wrote and illustrated this story of Pippinella, the green canary, for the New York Herald Tribune his intention was some day to publish the material in book form.
JOSEPHINE LOFTING PART ONE I THE DOCTOR MEETS THE GREEN CANARY THIS story of the further adventures of Pippinella, the green CANARY, begins during the time of the Dolittle Circus.
Now, what can a canary know about food--eating nothing but dried-up seeds and bread-crumbs?
THE INN OF THE SEVEN SEAS AFTER a short pause in which the green canary seemed to be lost in thought she continued her story.
I was surely the only canary who ever had been decorated for distinguished conduct under fire and that any regiment ought to be proud to claim me as a mascot.
You know a canary is a somewhat smaller creature than a human being, but his life and what happens in it are just as important for him.
I suppose I ought to have felt very proud, for it was a tremendous sum for a canary to cost.
I often thought afterwards of those poor wretches toiling away underground and wondered how the other canary got along who took my place.
And then the other canary, the funny little squeaker to whom I was supposed to give singing lessons, he had been on the ship quite a number of voyages, and he, too, gave me a lot of information.
And, for want of something better to do--also to keep my mind off my own troubles--I went on giving the other canary singing lessons.
If his claim to the canary should be just, possibly the bird will know him.
While the canary sang the beautiful and sad love story of the greenfinch, with the Doctor writing it all down in his notebook, the idea for a canary Opera came to John Dolittle.