dollarbird (dolarberd)

One of the rollers ( Coraciida ) of the genus Eurystomus, as E. pacific us or australis, of the Australian and Papuan regions: so called from the large round white spot on the wing. See cut under Eu rystomus. dollar dee (dol'är-dē), n. [ a fish of the family Centrarchida, of common occurrence in most parts of the United States. dollar-fish (dol'är-fish), n. 1. A carangoid fish, Vomer setipinnis: so named from the roundne and silvery color of the young. Also called moonfish (which see). - 2. A stromatoid fish, Stromateus tri acanthus: so named from its round form and silvery color. Also called butter - fish and harvest - fish. See cut under butter -fish. 1725 dollys (dol'i), n.; pl. dollies (-iz). [Prob. from the familiar name Dolly. Cf. doll, jack, jenny, billy, etc., as similarly applied to various mechanical contrivances.] 1. In mining, the flat disk of wood which moves up and down in the keeve or dolly-tub in the proce of concentrating ore by to ing and packing. See to . [Cornwall, Eng.]-2. In pile - driving, an extension-piece placed on the upper end of a pile, when the head of the pile is beyond the reach of the monkey. E. H. Knight.-3. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet; a snap-head. E. H. Knight.-4. A primitive form of apparatus for clothes-washing, consisting of a wooden disk furnished with from three to five legs with rounded ends, and a handle with a cro -piece rising from the center. The dolly is jerked rapidly around in different directions in a tub or box in which the clothes to be washed are im mersed in water. dollys (dol'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. dollied, ppr. dollying. [ The English call these offerings dollies ; the natives, dáli. They represent in the profuse East the visiting cards of the meagre West. G. A. Mackay , Ali Baba, p. 84. In the evening the Rana's dolly , or offering, was brought in, consisting of fruit, of att a, rice, grain, and half a-dozen of champagne. ... W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, II. 202.