Word Meanings - EPHRAIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.

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• HUNTER
  A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw , a differential screw, so named from the
• GRIZZLY
  Somewhat gray; grizzled. Old squirrels that turn grizzly. Bacon. Grizzly bear , a large and ferocious bear of Western North America and the Rocky Mountains. It is remarkable for the great length of its claws.
• HUNTERIAN
  Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
• HEAD-HUNTER
  A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.
• SHUNTER
  A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
• TUFTHUNTER
  A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3. Halliwell.
• WIDOW-HUNTER
  One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.