Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
avoset
avoset
noun
Alternative form of avocet
bovate
bovate
noun
(historical) Synonym of oxgang
devota
novate
novate
verb
(law) To replace a contract (especially a financial contract) with one or more new contracts.
To replace something with something new
octave
octave
adj
(obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.
noun
(Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
(Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
(astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
(fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
(mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
(music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
(music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
(music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
(signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
