Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The black guillemot, Uria or Cepphus grylle. See cut under
guillemot . - noun The dowitcher, or red-breasted snipe: a misnomer.
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There -- long after every other port was closed -- the desperate, but wary, sea-pigeon would evade the big and surly watcher on the coast.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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