Definitionn. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
Last update: October 10, 2015
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Since 1860 several visits have been paid to the group by scientific investigators - by Dr Habel in 1868; Messrs Baur and Adams, and the naturalists of the "Albatross," between 1888 and 1891; and in 1897-1898 by Mr Charles Harris, whose journey was specially undertaken at the instance of the Hon. [Please select]
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The common albatross is the _Diomedea exulans_ of naturalists. [Please select]
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The species mentioned in the text is the black-beaked albatross, which frequents the India waters. [Please select]
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Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. [Please select]
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He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood. [Please select]
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A young albatross told me he had seen him on Spidermonkey Island. [Please select]
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One has to be a gull or an albatross to stand that sort of weather. [Please select]
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Gone was the albatross from her young neck, melted the cloud from the azure round. [Please select]
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I thought of an albatross that I had caught going out. [Please select]
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Albatross (Motor Buchet) 67. [Please select]
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There were a few gulls floating each on its own image, as if asleep, and one great albatross soared slowly in the bright sky, as if acting the part of sentinel over the resting sea. [Please select]
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