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Partridge
·noun The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). II. Partridge ·noun Any one of several species of quail-...

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Partridge
(Heb. kore, i.e., "caller"). This bird, unlike our own partridge, is distinguished by "its ringing c...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Partridge
(Heb. kore) occurs only (1 Samuel 26:20) and Jere 17:11 The "hunting this bird upon the mountains," ...

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Pigeon
·noun An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. II. Pigeon ·noun Any bird of the order Columbae, o...

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Pigeon
Pigeons are mentioned as among the offerings which, by divine appointment, Abram presented unto the ...

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pigeon
A weak silly fellow easily imposed on. To pigeon; to cheat. To milk the pigeon; to attempt impossibi...

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pigeon
n. The Australian species are – – Bronze-wing Pigeon (q.v.) – – Phaps chalcoptera, Lath. ♣ Brush B...

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Pigeon
[TURTLE-DOVE] ...

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Sea partridge
·- The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts. ...

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Water partridge
·- The ruddy duck. ...

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Wood partridge
·add. ·- The Canada grouse. II. Wood partridge ·add. ·- Any of several small partridges of Java, Su...

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Partridge Court
West out of Gravel Lane, Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (Horwood, 1799-O.S. 25 in. 1880). In 1799 i...

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partridge-wood
n. another name for the Cabbage-Palm (q.v.). ...

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Pigeon-breasted
·adj Having a breast like a pigeon, — the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; c...

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Pigeon-hearted
·adj Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. ...

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Pigeon-livered
·adj Pigeon-hearted. ...

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Sea pigeon
·- The common guillemot. ...

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fruit-pigeon
n. The name is given to numerous pigeons of the genera Ptilinopus and Carpophaga.In Australia it is...

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harlequin pigeon
n. formerly referred tothe genus Peristera, but now to the genus Phaps.It is commonly called in the...

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blue pigeon
A nickname for the sounding lead. ...

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cape-pigeon
, or cape-petrel A sea-bird which follows a ship in her passage round the cape; the Procellaria ca...

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Three Pigeon Alley
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755) Site seems occupied by...

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Three Pigeon Court
South out of Jewin Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). Site now occup...

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to milk the pigeon
To endeavour at impossibilities. ...

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pigeon-berry tree
n. i.q. Native Mulberry. See mulberry. ...

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top-knot pigeon
n. an Australian bird, Lopholaimus antarcticus, Shaw. 1891. Francis Adams, `John Webb's End,' p. 3...

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torres straits pigeon
n. See quotation. 1893. Saville Kent, `Great Barrier Reef,' p. 123: «Making a bag of the famous To...

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Three Pigeon Alley, Barbican
See Three Pigeon Court. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.