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• Ant-eater

  ·noun One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. ·see Ant-bear, <<Pango...

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• Bee-eater

  ·noun An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes. II. Bee-eater ·noun A bird of the genus Merops, t...

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• Lotos-eater

  ·noun One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolenc...

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• Lotus-eater

  ·noun ·Alt. of Lotos-eater. ...

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• Man-eater

  ·noun One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sh...

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• beef eater

  A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupb...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• toad eater

  A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standin...

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• ant-eater

  n. 1) i.q. Ant-eating-Porcupine. See echidna. 2) The Banded Ant-eater (q.v.). ...

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• bee-eater

  n. a bird-name. The European Bee-eater is Merops apiaster; the Australian species is Merops ornatus...

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• fig-eater

  n. a bird, i.q. grape-eater (q.v.). ...

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• fly-eater

  n. the new vernacular name for the Australianbirds of the genus Gerygone (q.v.), and see Warbler.Th...

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• grape-eater

  n. a bird, called formerly Fig-eater, now known as the Green-backedWhite-eye (q.v.), Zosterops goul...

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• honey-eater

  n. an Australian bird, with atongue specially adapted for being formed into a tube for theabsorptio...

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• fire-eater

  One notoriously fond of being in action; much humbled by iron-clads. ...

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• fog-eater

  A synonym of fog-dog and fog-bow. It may be explained as the clearing of the upper stratum, permitti...

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• ant-eater, banded

  See banded ant-eater. ...

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• banded ant-eater

  n. name given to a smallterrestrial and ant-eating marsupial, Myrmecobiusfasciatus, Waterh, found i...

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• wattled bee-eater

  See bee-eater. ...

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