Word Meanings - SHARPTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The pintail duck. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.
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- CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - PRAIRIE
1. An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From - PINTAIL
A northern duck , native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon. - GROUSER
A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage. - CHICKEN-HEARTED
Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan. - CHICKEN
1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence - PRAIRIE STATE
Illinois; -- a nickname. - CHICKEN POX
A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. - GROUSE
) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidæ, and subfamily Tetraoninæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The - WATER CHICKEN
The common American gallinule.