Chapter I

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

plural of “angel” — spiritual being attendant upon God

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

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From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

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From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

plural of “blossom” — reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

brought into existence

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

the two together, not just one

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

inflected form of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

an orange of low brightness and saturation

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

plural of “cat” — feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

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From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

a young person of either sex

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

plural of “child” — a young person of either sex

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a timepiece that shows the time of day

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a baby bed with sides and rockers

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

plural of “dancer” — a performer who dances professionally

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

absence of light or illumination

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a female human offspring

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a small replica of a person; used as a toy

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

any of numerous small pigeons

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

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From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

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From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

possessive form of “giant” — any creature of exceptional size

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a young female

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

destroyed or killed

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

a small growth of trees without underbrush

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

longing to return home

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

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From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

angered at something unjust or wrong

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a small worthless amount

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

the month following May and preceding July

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

plural of “king” — a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

young domestic cat

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

plural of “lady” — a polite name for any woman

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a polite name for any woman

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

plural of “leaf” — the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

plural of “legend” — a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

plural of “lyric” — the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

plural of “mascot” — a character, animal or object that is adopted by a team or group as a symbolic figure

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

an artist of consummate skill

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a formally arranged gathering

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

in motion

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

something offered (as a proposal or bid)

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

relating to time long past

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

used with “to” to say what is right or advisable

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

the paved surface of a thoroughfare

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

a coniferous tree

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

affix in a public place or for public notice

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a treeless grassy plain

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

plural of “refreshment” — snacks and drinks served as a light meal

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

an act of economizing; reduction in cost

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

to a severe or serious degree

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a short musical composition with words

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

the season of growth

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

catch sight of

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

plural of “star” — (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a successful ending of a struggle or contest

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

literature in metrical form

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading of Both Said_ _The Little Brown Bat_ _The Lost Charter_ _The Saving of Jack_ _Skye of Skye_ _Tip's Kitten_ _The King of Cats_ _Waifs_ _Frost-Flowers of the Pavement_ _Stars of the Snow_ _June in the Sky_ _Mother Earth_

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

used to ask for information about something

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

at the time that

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

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From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

single because of death of the spouse

From this reading Nest_ _The Moving of the Nest_ _The Widowed Eagle_ _The Chicadee_ _The Earth-Mother and her Children_ "_When the Leaves are Gone_" _The First Thanksgiving_ "_Mascots_" _Mother Fur_ _What the Cat-Mother Said_ _What the Bird-Mother Said_ _What the Friends

possessive form of “witch” — a female sorcerer or magician

From this reading _Author of "The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics" "Cassia and Other Verse"_ _Cradle Song_ _How Many_ _Her Christmas Present_ _A Christmas Spy_ _Refreshments for Santa Claus_ _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_ _Holly and Mistletoe_ _The Firebrand_ _The Foundling_ _Meeting the Kings_ _The Procession of the Kings_ _Melchior's Ride_ _One of the Twelve_ _The Witch's Child_ _Babushka_ _A Christmas Offering_ _Christmas Post_ _The Christmas Sheaf_ _The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf_ _What the Pine Trees Said_ _Two Child Angels_ _The Old Doll_

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading _The Young of Spring_ _The Triumph of the Brown Thrush_ _Day--Wide Day!_ _The Blossoms of To-morrow_ _The Nest in the Heather_ _Lady Grove (Silver Birches)_ _Shadow Brook_ _The Brook and the Bird_ _The Birds of Soleure_ _The Prairie

the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to

From this reading _The Apple-blossom Switch_ _The Indignant Baby_ _A Question of Spelling_ "_Yours Severely_" _A Lack of Attention_ "_I Ought to Mustn't_" _A Vain Regret_ _In the Dark Little Flat_ _The Little Girl from Town_ _For Every Day_ _The Day-Dreamer_ _Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind_ _The Cradle-Child_ _Some Ladies of the Olden Time_ _A Water-Lily_ _The Kinderbank_ _Buonamico_ _The Prince and the Whipping-Boy_ _Master Corvus_ "_P. Abbott_" _The Giant's Daughter_ _Erotion and the Dove_ _The Homesick Soldier_ _The Cossack Mother_ _The Blossom-Child_ _The Clock of the Year_