Partridge
['pɑːtrɪdʒ] or ['pɑrtrɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) small Old World gallinaceous game birds.
(noun.) flesh of either quail or grouse.
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Definition
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.
(n.) Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera.
(n.) The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).
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Definition
n. a genus of gallinaceous birds preserved for game.—n. Par′tridge-wood a hard variegated wood from Brazil and the West Indies used in cabinet-work.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Partridges seen in your dreams, denotes that conditions will be good in your immediate future for the accumulation of property. To ensnare them, signifies that you will be fortunate in expectations. To kill them, foretells that you will be successful, but much of your wealth will be given to others. To eat them, signifies the enjoyment of deserved honors. To see them flying, denotes that a promising future is before you.
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Examples
- This is chicken, he said, but we'll have partridge to-morrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is not the only reputation that has been acquired as easily, nor are such fortunate circumstances confined to partridge-shooting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I shall write to Mrs. Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look-out for any thing eligible. Jane Austen. Emma.
- On one occasion, after performing this feat, Mr. Tupman, on opening his eyes, beheld a plump partridge in the act of falling, wounded, to the ground. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Better live on a bone, answered his lordship, with his mouth full of cold partridge. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Thus in 1842 Reuben Partridge of America patented a machine for making splints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To prove that articles can be kept and dried without losing their flavor, I had some partridges treated and dried last February twelvemonth, and I exhibit some soup made from two of these birds. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If you or Shelby wants to chase us, look where the partridges was last year; if you find them or us, you're quite welcome. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Two or three months before this he had ocular proof of the effect of a hailstorm, which in a very limited area killed twenty deer, fifteen ostriches, numbers of ducks, hawks, and partridges. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the stock of partridges, grouse, and hares on any large estate depends chiefly on the destruction of vermin. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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