A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
A cast from supertype to subtype.
To cast from supertype to subtype.
To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
Feeling despondent.
Looking downwards.
The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.