English words for 'extinct prairie chicken'
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noun
name
- A province of Marche, Italy.
- A locality in Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada.
- A port city and comune, the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region of Marche, Italy.
- A small town in the Shire of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, named after Ancona, Italy.
- An unincorporated community in Reading Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States, named after Ancona, Italy.
noun
- A breed of poultry.
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- a member of the military police in Britain
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
noun
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
verb
noun
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
verb
- provide with a horse or horses
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
noun
name
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
- A neighbourhood of Edison Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- A male given name.
- A city in Jackson County, Oregon.
- A neighborhood of Sayreville borough, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
- A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Agios Vasileios, Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Foinikas.
- A town of ancient Caria, near modern-day Taşlıca Marmaris district, Muğla Province, Turkey.
- The capital city of Arizona, and the county seat of Maricopa County.
- A village in Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois.
- A village in Oswego County, New York.
- A port town of ancient Lycia, in modern Antalya Province, Turkey; modern Finike.
- An unincorporated community in Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan.
- A town north-west of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- A ghost town in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia.
- (as "the Phoenix") A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
- (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
- (Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus.
- A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Sfakia, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Loutro.
- (mythology) A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.
- A female given name.
- A community in Clearwater County, Alberta.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- a disease of poultry
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
- a minor nonspecific ailment
- a small hard seed found in some fruits
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- A spot; a speck.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
verb
- defeat thoroughly
- kill by firing a missile
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
- (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- (transitive) To remove the pips from.
- (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
- (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
noun
name
noun
- Beaked skeletonweed (Shinnersoseris rostrata) of the Great Plains of North American
- Thorny skeletonweed (Pleiacanthus spinosus), of the western US.
- Rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea), native to parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but considered an invasive plant.
- Wheeler's skeletonweed (Chaetadelpha wheeleri), of the western US.
- Flatcrown buckwheat (Eriogonum deflexum), of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), found in the western US and Mexico.
noun
- small Old World gallinaceous game birds
- a popular North American game bird; named for its call
- valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada
- heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
- flesh of either quail or grouse
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (ornithology) Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
noun
- A broody hen.
- A participant in a séance.
- One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
- (soccer, snooker, cricket, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
- A sitting room.
- Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.
- a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
- a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
- a domestic hen ready to brood
- an organism (person or animal) that sits
noun
name
- A province of Marche, Italy.
- A locality in Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada.
- A port city and comune, the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region of Marche, Italy.
- A small town in the Shire of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, named after Ancona, Italy.
- An unincorporated community in Reading Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States, named after Ancona, Italy.
noun
- A breed of poultry.
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- a member of the military police in Britain
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
noun
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
verb
noun
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
verb
- provide with a horse or horses
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
noun
name
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
- A neighbourhood of Edison Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- A male given name.
- A city in Jackson County, Oregon.
- A neighborhood of Sayreville borough, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
- A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Agios Vasileios, Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Foinikas.
- A town of ancient Caria, near modern-day Taşlıca Marmaris district, Muğla Province, Turkey.
- The capital city of Arizona, and the county seat of Maricopa County.
- A village in Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois.
- A village in Oswego County, New York.
- A port town of ancient Lycia, in modern Antalya Province, Turkey; modern Finike.
- An unincorporated community in Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan.
- A town north-west of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- A ghost town in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia.
- (as "the Phoenix") A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
- (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
- (Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus.
- A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Sfakia, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Loutro.
- (mythology) A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.
- A female given name.
- A community in Clearwater County, Alberta.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- a disease of poultry
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
- a minor nonspecific ailment
- a small hard seed found in some fruits
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- A spot; a speck.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
verb
- defeat thoroughly
- kill by firing a missile
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
- (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- (transitive) To remove the pips from.
- (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
- (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
noun
name
noun
- Beaked skeletonweed (Shinnersoseris rostrata) of the Great Plains of North American
- Thorny skeletonweed (Pleiacanthus spinosus), of the western US.
- Rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea), native to parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but considered an invasive plant.
- Wheeler's skeletonweed (Chaetadelpha wheeleri), of the western US.
- Flatcrown buckwheat (Eriogonum deflexum), of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), found in the western US and Mexico.
noun
- small Old World gallinaceous game birds
- a popular North American game bird; named for its call
- valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada
- heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
- flesh of either quail or grouse
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (ornithology) Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
noun
- A broody hen.
- A participant in a séance.
- One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
- (soccer, snooker, cricket, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
- A sitting room.
- Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.
- a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
- a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
- a domestic hen ready to brood
- an organism (person or animal) that sits
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