The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solitaire \Sol`i*taire"\, n. [F. See Solitary.]
A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
--Pope.-
A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists.
--Mrs. R. H. Davis. A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by ``jumping,'' as in draughts.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A large extinct bird ( Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species ( Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
Wiktionary
n. A small, shy singing bird (''Myadestes sibilons'') of the St. Vincent Islands.
Usage examples of "invisible bird".
It fluttered past me like an invisible bird, and the body gave that long harsh breath that is often the very last sound.
He became an invisible bird, flitting through crevices too narrow for his human form.
Through the window the vast, green rolling fells shimmered in the bright light, the narrow road curled endlessly between the fields, and far off an invisible bird called plaintively from the sun-warmed grass.
We scouted Golden Gate Park in San Francisco as the landing site for the invisible Bird of Prey, which happened to be the actual spot where Kirk told Sulu to land.
A third-person narrator flits like an invisible bird from place to place- readers don't usually spend much time worrying about how she happens to know all this stuff, or why she's writing it down.