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Bandicoot
·noun A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasman...

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bandicoot
n. an insect-eating marsupialanimal; family, Peramelidae; genus, Perameles.«The animals of this gen...

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Footed
·adj Having a foothold; established. II. Footed ·adj Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. II...

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Pig
·noun A <<Piggin>>. II. Pig ·noun One who is hoggish; a greedy person. III. Pig ·noun Any wild spe...

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pig
1) A police officer. A China street pig; a Bow-street officer. Floor the pig and bolt; knock down th...

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pig
a hog of any size, as well as a young hog. York and Derb. ...

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Cleft-footed
·adj Having a cloven foot. ...

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Cloven-footed
·adj ·Alt. of Cloven-hoofed. ...

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Fin-footed
·adj Having palmate feet. II. Fin-footed ·adj Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe. ...

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Flat-footed
·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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Leaf-footed
·adj Having leaflike expansions on the legs; — said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Le...

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Light-footed
·adj Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. ...

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Lobe-footed
·adj <<Lobiped>>. ...

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Mouth-footed
·adj Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. ...

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Oar-footed
·adj Having feet adapted for swimming. ...

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Polt-footed
·adj Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet. ...

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Rough-footed
·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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Sure-footed
·adj Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse. ...

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Tickle-footed
·adj Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. ...

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Tiger-footed
·adj Hastening to devour; furious. ...

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Turtle-footed
·adj Slow-footed. ...

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Web-footed
·adj Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl. ...

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Wing-footed
·adj Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. II. Wing-footed ·adj Having wings attached ...

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flat-footed
Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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Pig-eyed
·adj Having small, deep-set eyes. ...

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Pig-headed
·adj Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. ...

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Pig-jawed
·adj Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the low...

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Pig-sticking
·noun Boar hunting; — so called by Anglo-Indians. ...

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Sea pig
·- A porpoise or dolphin. II. Sea pig ·- A <<Dugong>>. ...

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Water pig
·- The <<Gourami>>. II. Water pig ·- The <<Capybara>>. ...

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Pig Street
See Little Broad Street. ...

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tantony pig
The favourite or smallest pig in the litter.--To follow like a tantony pig, i.e. St. Anthony's pig; ...

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cold pig
To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pull...

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frig pig
A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow. ...

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goodyer's pig
Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when in mischief. ...

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pig-headed
Obstinate. ...

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pig running
A piece of game frequently practised at fairs, wakes, &c. A large pig, whose tail is cut short, and ...

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pig-dog
n. a dog used in hunting wild pigs. 1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' c. ii.p. 6...

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pig-face
Pig-faces, and Pig's-face,or Pig's-faces. Names given to an indigenous «iceplant,» Mesembryanthemum...

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pig-fish
n. name given to the fish Agriopusleucopaecilus, Richards., in Dunedin; called also the Leather-jac...

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sea-pig
n. a small whale, the Dugong.See under Dugong-oil. 1853. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia,'...

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pig-nut
(Lat. juglans porcina.) A small species of walnut.--Michaux, Sylva. ...

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pig-yoke
Among seamen, the name for a quadrant, from its resemblance to a pig-yoke. ...

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anthony pig
the favourite, or smallest pig of the litter or farrow. Kent. ...

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pig-iron
(See sow.) An oblong mass of cast-iron used for ballast; there are also pigs of lead. "A nodding b...

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pig-tail
The common twisted tobacco for chewing. ...

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pig-yoke
The name given to the old Davis quadrant. ...

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Guinea-pig director
·add. ·- A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for ...

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pig-faced lady
n. an old name in Tasmania forthe Boar-fish (q.v.). ...

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furze-man-pig
a hedge -hog. Glouc. ...

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knight and barrow pig
more hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency. ...

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to get the wrong pig by the tail
is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...

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