Of great intensity.
Creating a loud noise.
Expressed loudly.
Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise.
Insistently expressing a desire for something.
Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.
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.