Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Traill's flycatcher, Empidonux trailli, one of the four commonest species of small flycatchers of eastern parts of the United States, originally named in 1832, by Audubon, as Muscicapa traillii, after Dr. Thomas Stewart Traill, editor of the eighth edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica.” See cut under
Empidonax .
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There are bike lanes on the road, and an adequate traill system.
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Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill www.nlc-bnc.ca/moodie-traill, developed in collaboration with the National Archives of Canada, documents the life and writings of these sisters, who were two of Canada�s most notable early literary figures.
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And that was the great diversion for them; but when Margaret went to her this time she was thrang at the building of her stack of peat, and there was with her a younger woman, and Mhari nic Cloidh was not in good wind, for the first of her words came to us: "A traill," says she to her helper.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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So I left them in the house, and tried my hand at the building of the peats till I was seeing that the traill was well contented to be sitting watching me and doing nothing; and at that I left the rick, for
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The phoebe-like cry of the traill was to be heard constantly from the hotel piazza.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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All our common eastern Massachusetts species were present, -- the kingbird, the phoebe, the wood pewee, and the least flycatcher, -- and with them the crested flycatcher (not common), the olive-sided, the traill, and the yellow-bellied.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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