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bald-coot
bald-coot Also (metri gratiâ) baldicoot. Popular name for the Coot (Fulica atra), from its pure white wide frontal plate, destitute of feathers. Used fig. and contemptuously as = bald-head. Cf. coot n.1 2.a 1300 W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 165 Une blarye (glossed) a balled cote. 1616 Beaum. & F...
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bell-kite
ˈbell-kite Sc. and north. dial. In 5 beld cytt. [f. beld, bell, northern forms of bald + cytt, kite, here a corruption of coot.] The northern form of bald-coot. Also fig. as term of contempt.c 1450 Holland Houlate iii. 1 Busardis and Beld cyttes. 1876 Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. s.v. Bellkite, The usual appl...
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Absheron National Park
waters seal and various fishes, birds such as silver gull, wheezing swan, grey and red-headed black, white-eyed black ducks, big white bittern, sandpiper, bald-coot
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bald
▪ I. bald, a. (bɔːld) Forms: 3–5 ballede, 4–5 balled, -yd, -id, -it, 5 belde, bellyde, 5–7 balde, 6 baulde, 7 bal'd, ball'd, 8–9 Sc. beld, 6– bald. [ME. balled, of uncertain origin; in sense 1, apparently a ppl. form from ball v. or n., with the sense of ‘protuberant or rounded like a ball,’ whence ...
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pediculous
pediculous, a. (pɪˈdɪkjʊləs) [ad. L. pedīculōs-us, f. pedīcul-us louse.] Infested with lice, lousy; also, of or pertaining to a louse, or characterized by lice (= pedicular).a 1550 Image Hypocr. iv. 540 in Skelton's Wks. (1843), Proude and pestiferous Pold and pediculous. 1602 Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1...
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badger
▪ I. badger, n.1 (ˈbædʒə(r)) Forms: 5 bager, 7 (?) bodger, budger, 5– badger. [See badge v.2, and note below.] One who buys corn and other commodities and carries them elsewhere to sell; an itinerant dealer who acts as a middleman between producer (farmer, fisherman, etc.) and consumer; a cadger, ha...
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Eurasian coot and her bald babies, haha ... - Пинтерест
01.11.2019 - Eurasian coot and her bald babies, haha! Cranbourne Botanic Gardens Melbourne, 31 Oct 2019.
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coote
▪ I. coot, n.1 (kuːt) Forms: 4–7 cote, coote, (5 cute, cuytt, 6–7 cout(e), 7– coot. [ME. cote, coote, corresp. to Du. koet (recorded c 1600); a Low German word, the earlier history of which is unknown. The long o of ME. cōte, evidenced also by the Du. form, which implies MDu. *cōte, coete, makes imp...
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National parks of Azerbaijan
waters seal and various fishes, birds such as silver gull, wheezing swan, grey and red-headed black, white-eyed black ducks, big white bittern, sandpiper, bald-coot
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