lark : Idioms & Phrases

• . (Zoöl.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit.

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• (Zoöl.), the European pipit. See Pipit.

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• (Zoöl.), the shore lark.

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• verb play boisterously
  disport; rollick; cavort; romp; run around; skylark; sport; frisk; lark; frolic; gambol.
  
  • The children frolicked in the garden
  • the gamboling lambs in the meadows
  • The toddlers romped in the playroom

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a fringilline bird (Calamospiza melanocorys) found on the plains of the Western United States.

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• (Zoöl.), a sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), found in the Mississippi Valley and the Western United States.

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Lark's"-heel` noun

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1. (Bot.) Indian cress.

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Lark"-col`ored adjective

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1. Having the sandy brown color of the European larks.

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• (Zoöl.), a common Australian bird (Grallina picata), conspicuously marked with black and white; called also little magpie.

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• (Zoöl.), any species of Sturnella, a genus of American birds allied to the starlings. The common species (S. magna) has a yellow breast with a black crescent.

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• a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. Slang

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A small lark (Alaudala raytal), native of India . (b) A small sandpiper, or plover, as the ringneck, the sanderling, and the common European sandpiper . (c) The Australian red-capped dotterel (Ægialophilus ruficapillus); called also red-necked plover.

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Sea" lark`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (b) Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.

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• (Zoöl.), a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark.

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• to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.

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• (Zoöl.), the tree pipit. Prov. Eng.

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• (Zoöl.), the snow bunting.

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• (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. Prov. Eng.

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• (Zoöl.), a small European lark (Alauda arborea), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on trees.

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• (Zoöl.), the European yellow-hammer; so called from the curious irregular lines on its eggs. Prov. Eng.

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