Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Canada jay or whisky-jack, Perisoreus canadensis: so called from its frequent association with the moose.
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Examples
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"When you were a little bird, a little moose-bird," Canim said, his eyes upon her and burning into her.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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While the sight of a moose-bird almost invariably put him into the wildest of rages; for he never forgot the peck on the nose he had received from the first of that ilk he encountered.
The Law of Meat 2010
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Such was his confidence, that when a moose-bird impudently hopped up to him, he reached out at it with a playful paw.
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He drifted back to the immediate present for a moment and noted that the river still ran wide open, and that a moose-bird, perched on the bow of the boat, was surveying him impudently.
Chapter VIII 2010
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"The memories of the little moose-bird are overstrong and make trouble," he began.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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The noise he made was too much for the moose-bird, who sought safety in flight.
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But there were times when even a moose-bird failed to affect him, and those were times when he felt himself to be in danger from some other prowling meat hunter.
The Law of Meat 2010
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"When I was a little moose-bird," she whispered, so faint and low he scarcely heard.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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As the party started back to camp, each one weighted with forty pounds or more of meat, Herb carrying a double portion, with the antlers hooked upon his shoulders, they heard the moose-bird still insatiably shrieking
Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook
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He drifted back to the immediate present for a moment and noted that the river still ran wide open, and that a moose-bird, perched on the bow of the boat, was surveying him impudently.
Chapter VIII 1910
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