Buffel duck () A small duck (Charitonetta albeola) |
Comb (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. |
Comb (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats |
Comb (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. |
Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. |
Comb (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. |
Comb (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe |
Comb (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer. |
Comb (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. |
Comb (n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red. |
Comb (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. |
Comb (n.) The curling crest of a wave. |
Comb (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc. |
Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. |
Comb (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb |
Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave |
Comb (n.) Alt. of Combe |
Comb (n.) A dry measure. See Coomb. |
Comb-shaped (a.) Pectinate. |
Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy |
Duck (n.) A pet |
Duck (n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. |
Duck (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. |
Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. |
Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it |
Duck (v. t.) To bow |
Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear |
Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly |
Duck (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. |
Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
Duck-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of a duck. |
Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck |
Duck's-meat (n.) Duckweed. |
Duck's-bill (a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Duck's-foot (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
Lady's comb () An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. |
Muscovy duck () A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil. |
Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth. |
Sea duck () Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe. |
Vicissy duck () A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated. |
comb-out | the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people, the department got a good comb-out |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
comb combing | the act of drawing a comb through hair, his hair needed a comb |
comb-out teasing | the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb |
ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
cinch breeze picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
comb-footed spider theridiid | spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot |
comb cockscomb coxcomb | the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds |
duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
canvasback canvasback duck Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup scaup duck bluebill broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup lesser scaup duck lake duck Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
mandarin duck Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck musk duck Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser fish duck sawbill sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
duck down | down of the duck |
ctene comb-plate | a locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused |
ctenophore comb jelly | biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb |
comb | ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore |
Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
bird shot buckshot duck shot | small lead shot for shotgun shells |
comb | a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge, disentangles or arranges hair |
comb | any of several tools for straightening fibers |
duck | a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing and tents |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
pocketcomb pocket comb | a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket |
duck | flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) |
duck sauce hoisin sauce | a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment |
duck pate | a pate made from duck liver |
cold duck | pink sparkling wine originally from Germany |
duck hunter | hunter of ducks |
kook odd fellow odd fish queer bird queer duck odd man out d | someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group |
lame duck | an elected official still in office but not slated to continue |
sitting duck easy mark | a defenseless victim |
duck duck's egg | (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman |
dead duck | something doomed to failure, he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck, the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck, as theories go, that's a dead duck |
comb comb out disentangle | smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb, comb your hair before dinner, comb the wool |
b hedge fudge evade put off circumvent parry elude skirt dodge duck sidestep | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues), He dodged the issue, she skirted the problem, They tend to evade their responsibilities, he evaded the questions skillfully |
comb ransack | search thoroughly, They combed the area for the missing child |