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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the swallow; swallow-like; specifically, pertaining to the Hirundinidæ.
  2. n. A swallow; one of the Hirundinidæ.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. pertaining to a swallow
  2. n. a member of the swallow family

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin hirundo ‘swallow’. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “We all rejoice that you have fixed the precise time of your coming to be cum hirundine prima; which we modern naturalists pronounce, ought to be reckoned, contrary to Pliny, in this northern latitude of fifty-two degrees, from the end of February, Styl.”

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  • “Were the stragglers which I had for some time been watching, flying high, but well within easy ken, and these dense, hardly discernible clusters -- hirundine nebulæ, as it were -- were all these but parts of one innumerable host, the main body of which was passing far above me altogether unseen?”

    The Foot-path Way

  • “Helpers appear next day; and swashing to and fro, with animated, loud, long-drawn chirpings, and activity almost super-hirundine, complete it again before nightfall?”

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

  • “J FIND that you have laid aside your project of building in Ireland, and that we shall see you in this island cum xephyrisf et hirundine prima* I know not whether the love of fame increases as we advance in age; sure I am that the force of friendship does.”

    Internet Archive: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life ...

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  • jaime_d from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" Jan 11, 2009

  • sionnach of, like or pertaining to swallows Nov 5, 2007

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