Robin Goodfellow - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: robin goodfellowHobgoblin
A frightful goblin an imp a bugaboo also a name formerly given to the household spirit Robin Goodfellow...
Kobold
A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow...
Puck
A celebrated fairy ldquothe merry wanderer of the nightrdquo called also Robin Goodfellow Friar Rush Pug etc...
Robin Goodfellow
A celebrated fairy Puck See Puck...
Round-robin
Round-robin, a circle divided from the centre, like King Arthur's Round Table, whence its supposed origin. In each compartment is a signature, so that the entire circle, when filled, exhibits a list without priority being given to any name. A common form of round-robin is simply to write the names in a circular form. For an account of perhaps the most famous round-robin on record, see Boswell's Johnson, Edn. by Birkbeck Hill, vol. iii. p. 82....
Robin
A small European singing bird Erythacus rubecula having a reddish breast called also robin redbreast robinet and ruddock...
Sea robin
See under Robin and Illustration in Appendix...
cedar waxwing
a species of chatterer Bombycilla cedrorum formerly Ampelis cedrorum widely distributed over temperate North America so named from its frequenting cedar trees called also cedar bird cherry bird Canada robin and American waxwing It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long between the size of a robin and a sparrow has a crest on the head a black face mask and a yellow tipped tail The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings like that of a black sealing wax They sometimes are seen in flocks...
Baltimore bird
A common bird Icterus galbula of eastern and central America and Canada named after Lord Baltimore because its colors black and orange red are like those of his coat of arms called also golden robin It winters in the American tropics...
Bluebird
A small song bird Sialia sialis very common in the United States and in the north one of the earliest to arrive in spring The male is blue with the breast reddish It is related to the European robin...
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