Cushat

Word CUSHAT
Character 6
Hyphenation cush at
Pronunciations /ˈkʊʃət/

Definitions and meanings of "Cushat"

What do we mean by cushat?

A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove.

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The word "cushat" in example sentences

A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Moreover, in that garden were birds of all breeds, ring-dove and cushat and nightingale and culver, each singing his several song, and amongst them the lady, swaying gracefully to and fro in her beauty and grace and symmetry and loveliness and ravishing all who saw her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their love lays on the sprays. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There sang the nightingale, whose chant arouses the sleeper, and the merle with his note like the voice of man and the cushat and the ring-dove, whilst the parrot with its eloquent tongue answered the twain. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When they came to the valley, they found it beautiful exceedingly and passing all degree; and birds on tree sang joyously and the mocking-nightingale trilled out her melody, and the cushat filled with her moan the mansions made by the Deity, — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Birds thrive in times of drought, both in their general health and in regard to parturition, and this is especially the case with the cushat; fishes, however, with a few exceptions, thrive best in rainy weather; on the contrary rainy seasons are bad for birds-and so by the way is much drinking-and drought is bad for fishes. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The cushat and the rock-dove migrate, and never winter in our country, as is the case also with the turtle-dove; the common pigeon, however, stays behind. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Again, some creatures live in the fields, as the cushat; some on the mountains, as the hoopoe; some frequent the abodes of men, as the pigeon. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Some birds, for instance, have a crop in front of the stomach, as the barn-door cock, the cushat, the pigeon, and the partridge; and the crop consists of a large hollow skin, into which the food first enters and where it lies ingested. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She sang so sweetly that a cushat dove flew down from a tree and followed her. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I scorn my maid; for when she took my cushat, she did not ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (N/A)

Then, as I was watching him, all at once the boy sprang up, and he seemed to see a light before him, so straight on did he walk: many crossed his path and jostled against him, but he cared not; he heard the sweet voice plainer and plainer, like the soft murmuring of the cushat dove in the early summer, and he would follow where it led. ❋ Samuel Wilberforce (N/A)

Around them the singing of the birds, the cooing of the cushat doves and the buzzing of the bees, mingled in dreamy cadence. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)

The cushat, as she thrid her way through the wood, continued to croon in her darksome tree -- and the lark, although just dropped from the cloud, was cheered by her presence into a new passion of song, and mounted over her head, as if it were his first matin hymn. ❋ Various (N/A)

The robin chants his vesper sang, the cushat seeks the glade; ❋ Various (N/A)

Don't have him in and out of the office all day long-looking at her with those collie-dog eyes of his, arguing art and poetry with her in that cushat-dove voice of his. ❋ Unknown (1893)

There has been for him only a vague, dazzling vision of a golden-haired girl in floating white raiment, wafting the fragrance of violets as she moved, and with a voice sweeter than the notes of the cushat dove as she spoke. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The burn was full of trout; the wood of cushat-doves; on the open side of the mountain beyond, whaups would be always whistling, and cuckoos were plentiful. ❋ Unknown (1886)

Neither is it particularly intellectual, for its nest shows no more contrivance than that of a cushat dove. ❋ Blaikie, William G. (1880)

Then I went out and locked the door and opening the third door, found therein a great hall paved with vari-coloured marbles and other precious stones and hung with cages of sandal and aloes wood, full of singing-birds, such as the thousand-voiced nightingale [FN#48] and the cushat and the blackbird and the turtle-dove and the Nubian warbler. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

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