cape-petrel

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• Petrel

  ·noun Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The...

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• petrel

  The Cypselli of the ancients, and Mother Cary's chickens of sailors; of the genus Procellaria. They ...

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• Cape

  ·vi To <<Gape>>. II. Cape ·vi To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by s...

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• cape

  A projecting point of land jutting out from the coast-line; the extremity of a promontory, of which ...

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• dove-petrel

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• stormy petrel

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• Inverness cape

  ·add. ·- A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck. ...

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• cape lilac

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• cape weed

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• cape, to

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• cape-hen

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• cape-merchant

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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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• cape-barren goose

  n. See goose. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 114,[Footnote]: «The `Cape B...

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• cape-barren tea

  n. a shrub or tree, Correaalba, Andr., N.O. Rutaceae. 1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 1...

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• cape fly-away

  A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.) ...

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• doubling a cape

  In navigation, is to sail round or pass beyond it, so that the point of land separates the ship from...

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• weather the cape, to

  To become experienced; as it implies sailing round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope. ...

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