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  The name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea, which Pernet...

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• Chicken

  ·noun A young bird or fowl, ·esp. a young barnyard fowl. II. Chicken ·noun A young person; a child;...

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• Mother

  ·noun An old woman or matron. II. Mother ·noun Hysterical passion; hysteria. III. Mother ·vi To be...

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• mother

  or the mother A bawd. Mother abbess: the same. Mother midnight; a midwife. Mother in law's bit; a s...

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• Mother

  The superiority of the Hebrew over all contemporaneous systems of legislation and of morals is stron...

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• Chicken pox

  ·- A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. ...

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• Chicken-breasted

  ·adj Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. ...

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• Chicken-hearted

  ·adj Timid; fearful; cowardly. ...

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• Water chicken

  ·- The common American gallinule. ...

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• chicken-breasted

  Said of a woman with scarce any breasts. ...

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• chicken butcher

  A poulterer. ...

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• chicken-hammed

  Persons whose legs and thighs are bent or archward outwards. ...

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• chicken-hearted

  Fearful, cowardly. ...

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• chicken nabob

  One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a d...

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• sucking chicken

  A young chicken. ...

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• chicken-fixings

  In the Western States, a chicken fricassee. We trotted on very fast, in the assurance of rapidly ap...

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• Eel-mother

  ·noun The <<Eelpout>>. ...

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• Mother-naked

  ·adj Naked as when born. ...

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• pheasant's mother

  n. an old name of an Australian bird. See orthonyx. 1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,...

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• el-mother

  a step-mother. N. ...

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• hoe-mother

  , or homer. The basking shark, Squalus maximus. ...

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• Mother-in-law

  ·noun The mother of one's husband or wife. ...

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• Mother-of-pearl

  ·noun The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, ·esp. of pearl oysters, river musse...

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• Mother-of-thyme

  ·noun An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum); — called also wild thyme. ...

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• mother-of-pearl

  The iridescent nacreous inner layer of several species of shells, especially the "pearl-oyster" (Mel...

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• mother of all saints

  The Monosyllable. ...

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• mother of all souls

  The same. IRISH. ...

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• mother of st. patrick

  The same. IRISH. ...

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• mother of the maids

  A bawd. ...

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• Mary, Mother Of Mark

  (Colossians 4:10) was sister to Barnabas. (Acts 4:36; 12:15) She was among the earliest disciples, a...

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