Pheasant
['fez(ə)nt] or ['fɛznt]
Definition
(noun.) large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere.
(noun.) flesh of a pheasant; usually braised.
Edited by Barbie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.
(n.) The ruffed grouse.
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Definition
n. a gallinaceous bird abundant in Britain and highly valued as food.—n. Pheas′antry an enclosure for pheasants where they may be bred and reared.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Dreaming of pheasants, omens good fellowship among your friends. To eat one, signifies that the jealousy of your wife will cause you to forego friendly intercourse with your friends. To shoot them, denotes that you will fail to sacrifice one selfish pleasure for the comfort of friends.
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Examples
- I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He has been ill ever since he did not eat any of the pheasant today. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant'? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a p?té de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I tried it backwards, but the combination 'life pheasant's hen' was not encouraging. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I could get a pheasant, or a woodcock. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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.
- But what is the meaning of these head-keepers and hen-pheasants? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I say that that coachman did not run away; but that he died game--game as pheasants; and I won't hear nothin' said to the contrairey. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So it is with young pheasants reared in England under a hen. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It savored of an aroma so rare that it was given preference over even the choice pheasants which had been prepared. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is nothing but four of those beautiful pheasants' eggs, which Mrs. Whitaker would quite force upon me: she would not take a denial. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Here are the greatest number of our plants, and here are the curious pheasants. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- On one day, Mr. James, the Colonel, and Horn, the keeper, went and shot pheasants, taking little Rawdon with them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Lucius