Reindeer
['reɪndɪə] or ['rendɪr]
Definition
(n.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.
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Definition
n. a kind of deer in the north valuable for the chase and for domestic uses.—n. Rein′deer-moss a lichen the winter food of the reindeer.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a reindeer, signifies faithful discharge of duties, and remaining staunch to friends in their adversity. To drive them, foretells that you will have hours of bitter anguish, but friends will attend you.
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Examples
- The lower row (Reindeer Age) are the work of true men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Reindeer men were a horse-people, but the Neolithic Aryans were a cow-people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Indians who depend upon the caribou in Labrador must be living under circumstances rather like those of the Reindeer men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Reindeer Men's drawings are fearless familiar things, with no hint about them of any religious or occult feelings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were hunting peoples, and some or all of them appear to have hunted the mammoth and the wild horse as well as the reindeer, bison, and aurochs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We give here some early sketches, from which we learn of the interest taken by these early men in the bison, horse, ibex, cave bear, and reindeer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Reindeer vanished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The lower row (Reindeer Age) are the work of true men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Reindeer men were a horse-people, but the Neolithic Aryans were a cow-people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Indians who depend upon the caribou in Labrador must be living under circumstances rather like those of the Reindeer men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Reindeer Men's drawings are fearless familiar things, with no hint about them of any religious or occult feelings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were hunting peoples, and some or all of them appear to have hunted the mammoth and the wild horse as well as the reindeer, bison, and aurochs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We give here some early sketches, from which we learn of the interest taken by these early men in the bison, horse, ibex, cave bear, and reindeer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Reindeer vanished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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