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migratory, a. and n.|ˈmaɪgrətərɪ|
[f. L. migrāt-, ppl. stem of migrāre to migrate.]
1. Characterized by migration; given to migrating.
1755Johnson, Horde, a clan; a migratory crew of people. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) II. 79 The..migratory tribes to the west of the pass of Gholairee. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. xi. (1847) 116 The migratory nature of the primacy seems to have weakened its stability. 1878Wolseley in 19th Cent. Mar. 449 Our population is so migratory that recruits are seldom enlisted in the parishes they were born in. 1879Froude Cæsar v. 41 A vast migratory wave of population had been set in motion behind the Rhine and Danube.
b. Of animals; spec. in Nat. Hist.: Characterized by or given to periodical migration. Sometimes as a rendering of a mod.L. specific name, as in migratory locust, migratory pigeon.
[a1672Willughby Ornithol. i. ix. (1676) 17 Avium..quæ statis anni temporibus advolant iterumque discedunt, migratoriæ dictæ. (Ray translates: Which we call Birds of passage.)] 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Bird, Migratory Birds, the same with birds of passage. 1793tr. Buffon's Birds VI. 489 [Swallows.] Some are there permanent settlers and others migratory. 1808–14A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. II. 293 Columba migratoria, Linnæus and Wilson. Migratory Pigeon... The wild pigeon of the United States. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 206 We were on the great highway of these migratory herds. 1839T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. iv. (1841) 107 It [the grayling] is very migratory, and frequently leaves one part of the river for another. 1875Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 4) 290 The Migratory Locust (Acrydium migratorium) of Africa and Southern Asia. 1876A. R. Wallace Geog. Distrib. Anim. I. i. i. 20 The same species is often sedentary in one part of Europe and migratory in another.
c. Of a bodily organ, a disease, etc.: Characterized by movement from its normal position; esp. in Histol. of a cell: Given to migration from the blood-vessels to the tissues.
1876Quain Anat. (ed. 6) II. 12 The pale blood-corpuscles may some of them make their way out of the blood-vessels and move freely in the surrounding tissues: hence the term ‘migratory cells’ (Wanderzellen) applied to them. 1877tr. H. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XV. 763 The Movable (Migratory) Kidney. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 13 One of the most characteristic features of the disease [Acute Rheumatism] is the migratory nature of the joint affection.
2. Of or pertaining to migration.
1757Burke Abridgem. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 274 This purpose [intermixture of mankind] is sometimes carried on by a sort of migratory instinct, sometimes by the spirit of conquest. 1839Selby in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 7. 190 The wild-fowl began to..yield to that influence which directs their migratory movements. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. viii. 80 The migratory passages of the reindeer.
B. n. A migratory bird. rare.
1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 27 Winged migratories, having but heaven for home. |