Crow
[krəʊ] or [kro]
Definition
(noun.) black birds having a raucous call.
(noun.) a Siouan language spoken by the Crow.
(noun.) the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it).
(noun.) a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana.
(verb.) express pleasure verbally; 'She crowed with joy'.
(verb.) utter shrill sounds; 'The cocks crowed all morning'.
Checker: Salvatore--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
(v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
(v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
(v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
(v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
(v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
(v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Checker: Percy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Boast, brag, vaunt, bluster, swagger, vapor, triumph, chuckle, exult.
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Definition
n. a large bird generally black of the genus Corvus which includes magpies nut-crackers jays choughs &c.: the cry of a cock: a crow-bar.—v.i. to croak: to cry as a cock in joy or defiance: to boast swagger (with over):—pa.t. crew (krōō) or crowed; pa.p. crowed.—ns. Crow′-bar a large iron bar mostly bent at the end to be used as a lever; Crow′-berr′y a small creeping shrub producing small black berries; Crow′-flow′er (Shak.) perhaps the same as Crow′foot a common weed the flower of which is like a crow's foot the buttercup: crow's-foot: a number of lines rove through a long wooden block supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally; Crow′-keep′er (Shak.) a scarecrow; Crow′-quill a pen made of the quill of a crow &c. for fine writing or etching; Crow's′-bill Crow′-bill (surg.) a kind of forceps for extracting bullets &c. from wounds; Crow's′-foot one of the wrinkles produced by age spreading out from the corners of the eyes: (mil.) a caltrop; Crow's′-nest (naut.) a shelter at the top-gallant mast-head of whalers for the man on the lookout.—n.pl. Crow′-steps (see Corbie).—n. Crow′-toe (Milt.) probably the same as Crowfoot.—As the crow flies in a straight line; Eat crow or boiled crow to be forced to do something very disagreeable; Have a crow to pluck with to have something to settle with some one.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a crow, betokens misfortune and grief. To hear crows cawing, you will be influenced by others to make a bad disposal of property. To a young man, it is indicative of his succumbing to the wiles of designing women. See Raven.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A bird that never complains without caws.
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Examples
- You think I'm an old woman whose ideas are bounded by Milton, and whose own crow is the whitest ever seen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Only don't crow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the very first morning after her arrival she was up and ringing her bell at cock-crow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The crow flies straight across Chancery Lane and Lincoln's Inn Garden into Lincoln's Inn Fields. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn goes, as the crow came--not quite so straight, but nearly--to Cook's Court, Cursitor Street. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All this time he had been watching the crows. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Two crows circled overhead and then lit in a pine tree below. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And in the day, blind in a tree with crows around him, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The crows sailing overhead perhaps watched me while I took this survey. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She rose and held up the child kicking and crowing in her arMs. Do you know who this is, Walter? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She gave a queer little crowing sound of triumph. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I woke for good long before it was light and heard roosters crowing and stayed on awake until it began to be light. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And here, crowing fearfully, with his eyes starting out of his head, appeared to be contending with every mortal disease incidental to poultry. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I'll sing the 'Jovial Crew,' or any other song, when a weak old man would cry his eyes out. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This may explain the absence of the crew, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The boat, crew and passengers were brought ashore to me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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