Moose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun A member of the Progressive Party; a Bull Moose.

II. Moose ·noun A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. ·see Elk.

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