·noun A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. ·see Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.
aukward, untoward. S. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
, or awk A sea-bird with short wings. The great auk or gair-fowl (Alca impennis) was formerly comm...
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