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Kinglet n.

A little king; a weak or insignificant king.

(Zool.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidae. Note: The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet (Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet (Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.

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"Kinglet" Quotes from Famous Books

... the festival went forward to completion as if nothing had occurred. At the appointed hour for the ceremonial, the groom did not and would not appear. Consternation gave way to a sense of outrage, but the "Kinglet," as the great courtiers styled him, stood firm. The Empress was beside herself, her health gave way, and she died in less than two months, on November seventeenth. The dangerous imbecile, her son Paul I, ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... mention in passing the celebrated Ch'u Yuan (fourth cent. B.C.), minister and kinsman of a petty kinglet under the Chou dynasty, whose 'Li Sao', literally translated 'Falling into Trouble', is partly autobiography and partly imagination. His death by drowning gave rise to the great Dragon-boat Festival, which ...

— A Lute of Jade/Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China • L. Cranmer-Byng

... unreasoning people—savages to be argued with and cajoled if possible; but if not, then to be treated with calm firmness and force, as an English officer on an exploring expedition might treat a wrathful Central African kinglet. And in a dim sort of way, too, it began to strike her by degrees that the analogy was a true one, that Bertram Ingledew, among the Englishmen with whom she was accustomed to mix, was like a civilised being ...

— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen

... take patience and devise us another device." The King cried, "This is well seen, and my breast is braodened by this thy speech; but where shall we find a messenger befitting this grave matter, for that this Solomon is no Kinglet and the approaching him is no light affair? Indeed, I will send him none, on the like of this matter, save thyself; for thou art ancient and versed in all manner affairs and the like of thee is the like of myself; wherefore I desire that thou weary thyself ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

... parts of Asia and especially in the African interior where the Tsetse-fly prevents the breeding of burden-beasts. Ibn Batutah tells us that in Malabar everything was borne upon men's backs. In Central Africa the kinglet rides a slave, and on ceremonious occasions mounts his Prime Minister. I have often been reduced to this style of conveyance and found man the worst imaginable riding: there is no hold and the sharpness of the shoulder-ridge soon ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton