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HONEYMOON , the first See also: month after See also:marriage. See also:Lord See also:Avebury in his Origin of See also:Civilization suggests that the seclusion usually associated with this See also:period is a survival of marriage by See also:capture, and answers to the period during which the See also:husband kept his wife in retirement, to prevent her from appealing to her relatives
' The See also:young of this See also:species has the See also:throat yellow.
s W. A. See also:Forbes published a careful monograph of this genus in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1879, pp. 256-279.
' This See also:bird, according to See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Buller (Birds of New See also:Zealand, p. 88), while uttering its See also:wild notes, indulges in much gesticulation, which adds to the suggested resemblance. It has See also:great See also:power of See also:mimicry, and is a favourite cage-bird both with the natives and colonists. On one occasion, says Buller, he had addressed a large See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of Maories on a See also:matter of considerable See also:political importance, when " immediately on the conclusion of my speech, and before the old See also:chief to whom my arguments were chiefly addressed had See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to reply, a tui, whose netted cage hung to a rafter_ overhead, responded in a clear, emphatic way, ' Tito!' (false). The circumstance naturally caused much merriment among my See also:audience, and quite upset the zravity of the See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
venerable old chief, Nepia Taratoa. ' Friend,' said he, laughing, ' your arguments are very See also:good; but my mokai is a very See also:wise bird. and he is not yet convinced!' "
for See also:release. Others suggest that as the See also: - MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon commences to wane as soon as it is at its full, so does the mutual See also:affection of the wedded pair, the " honeymoon " (with this derivation) not necessarily referring to any definite period of time.
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