veery U.S.
(ˈvɪərɪ)
[? Imitative.]
A North American thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens), also called tawny and Wilson's thrush.
| 1838 Thoreau Jrnl. in Writings (1906) VII. 70 Sometimes I hear the veery's silver clarion. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i, The place flows with birds,..deep in the forest [are] olive-backs, veeries, oven-birds. 1860 Whittier My Playmate xv, There in spring the veeries sing The song of long ago. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 685/1 Our thrushes are all frank, open-mannered birds; but the veery and the hermit build upon the ground. |