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A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
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Alternative form of Billiken [A rotund charm doll originally patented in 1908 by American art teacher and illustrator, Florence Pretz of Kansas City, Missouri and representing "The God of Things As They Ought to Be".]
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A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
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A little bone; an ossicle.
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One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
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A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.
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(obsolete) A crest on a bird's head.
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The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
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Dermatitis of the ear in water buffalo
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(dated) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
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Alternative form of attercop [(dialectal, Northern England) A spider.]
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A maker of artificial feathers, or plumes of real ones, for use on clothing etc.
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The use of fishbone diagrams.
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Alternative form of flyswatter [A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.]
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Alternative spelling of fore wing [(entomology, in an insect) Either member of the pair of wings closest to the head.]
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(transitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.
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(zoology, ichthyology) A shallow depression made in the gravel bed of a water body in which fish lay eggs.
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(of a door, flap, wings etc.) Resembling a gull's wings.
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A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments.
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Pertaining to or like a hedge.
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A corn (callus on the foot).
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(zoology) The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
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Alternative spelling of hind wing [(entomology, in an insect with two pairs of wings) Either member of the pair of wings closer to the tail.]
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Scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters.
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An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
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Characteristic of a kipper (smoked fish)
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Having light or fleet wings; swift.
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(entomology) A small, headless insect pin.
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Alternative form of musselling (“the catching of mussels”) [The catching of mussels.]
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(often in combination) Having (a specific type or number of) nipples.
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(now rare, archaic) A hen (originally in the form Dame Partlet).
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The voyage of hunting for pearls.
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Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
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A member of the Porcellian Club.
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Having shark-like characteristics, such as fierceness or agility.
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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a shark.
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(intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
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The underwater solid ground on which fish spawn.
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Alternative form of spurwinged [(zoology) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.]
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A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
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(transitive) To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person.
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(falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
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The third branch of a deer's antler.
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(fandom slang, chiefly Japanese fiction) Either of a pair of pigtails in the hair.
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