Bunting

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of swelling out, as a sail.
  • noun. The act of pushing, as with the horns or head; butting.
  • noun. A game among boys, played with sticks and a small piece of wood cut lengthwise.
  • noun. A large piece of timber; a heavy support for machinery or other structures.
  • noun. Sifting.
  • Short and thick-set.
  • noun. A short and thick-set person.
  • noun. The common shrimp, Crangon vulgaris.
  • noun. The popular name of a number of conirostral oscine passerine birds of the genus Emberiza and family Fringillidæ.
  • noun. By extension, a name given indefinitely and indiscriminately to a great number of emberizine and fringilline birds of all countries, and also to some birds not of the family Fringillidæ.
  • noun. A light woolen stuff very loosely woven.
  • noun. Flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
  • noun. A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidæ).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
  • noun. A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
  • noun. Flags considered as a group.
  • verb. Present participle of bunt.
  • noun. Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
  • noun. any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
  • Word Usage
    "Though slightly ad hoc, the bunting is at least cheerful, and appears to be strung between ground-floor window-frames."
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    buntine  
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    bunt