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A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
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Alternative form of birdsmouth. [(carpentry) A notch cut into the underside of a rafter to ensure that it does not move when resting on the wall plate running across the top of a wall; a similar notch in other timber components.]
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(zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
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A blanket filled with down; a duvet.
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(colloquial, dated) Light-heeled; frisky; frolicsome.
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(figuratively) Not fully formed; incipient.
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A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs; the downy plumage of unfledged birds.
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The front section of a bird's neck
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(zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of Gregory Peck, a neck
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(Cockney rhyming slang) The neck.
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(anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.
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(zoology) The rear part of the head.
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(ornithology) The area just below the nape of the neck (of a bird).
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A pain or ache at the horns.
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(anatomy) A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.
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The lower edge of the side of the face (below the cheek), defined by the jawbone.
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At or relating to the middle part of the neck.
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The ball joint of the humerus in a moose's skeleton.
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The back part of the neck.
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The nape, back of the neck.
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(anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
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(human anatomy) One of the joints of the seven vertebrae of the neck.
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Archaic spelling of neck. [(anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.]
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(geography, South Africa) A col (a dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks).
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(dialect, West Country) The nape of the neck.
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(anatomy, zoology, dated, rare) The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.
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(chiefly technical, usually as plural) A tooth of a comb.
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Any of several unrelated birds that have a ringed neck.
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(Northern England, Scotland) The nose.
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Discomfort or pain when trying to turn or move the neck.
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That has a stumpy tail
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The notch made on a swan's upper mandible when it is counted during the swan upping procedure.
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(informal) The final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine; the coccyx.
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The front part of the neck.
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The quality of being webfooted.
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