Puffin

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A sort of apple.

II. Puffin ·noun The Puffball.

III. Puffin ·noun An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name;

— called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

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