1.The act of fluttering. 2.A condition of nervous excitement or agitation:Everyone was in a flutter over the news that the director was resigning. 3.A commotion; a stir. 4.MedicineAbnormally rapid pulsation, especially of the atria or ventricles of the heart. ...
“Not to go into game-bird enclosures and chase the chicks,” replied Matt sulkily. “Good. Duane; over the horse.” Duane obeyed in sullen silence and Simon revelled in each of the eight searing cuts which Angus inflicted on the youth’s unprotected bottom, feeling as he heard Duane’...
dart, fleet, flit, flutter - move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches" 2. butterfly - cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking; "butterflied shrimp" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the...
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There I discovered my father laying on the filthy tile floor, clasping his chest with his mouth agape and his eyes frantically fluttering. I didn’t know what was happening, but I knew something was wrong. Something was horribly wrong. I leapt back from where I stood and simply stared in...
Bayesian reconstitution of environmental change from disparate historical records: hedgerow loss and farmland bird declines. Methods Ecol Evol. 2011;2: 86-94. Cramp S, Perrins CM. The birds of the western Palearctic, vol 8: crows to finches. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1994. De Groot ...
“Knockin” is funny, but it’s not merely a joke: The PGA’s tragic wildman knows as much about staring down darkness as any of those other guys. Over soaring pedal steel, Lenderman places his performance among other similarly bathetic scenes: a bird singing while trapped in a hardware ...
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on...
1.(Zoology) the female of any bird, esp the adult female of the domestic fowl 2.(Zoology) the female of certain other animals, such as the lobster 3.informala woman regarded as gossipy or foolish 4.dialectScota term of address (often affectionate), used to women and girls ...