Common (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one |
Common (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together |
Common (v.) Often met with |
Common (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional |
Common (v.) Profane |
Common (v.) Given to habits of lewdness |
Common (n.) The people |
Common (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public |
Common (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons |
Common (v. i.) To converse together |
Common (v. i.) To participate. |
Common (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. |
Common (v. i.) To board together |
Common sense () See Common sense, under Sense. |
Crow (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. |
Crow (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance |
Crow (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. |
Crow (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw. |
Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw |
Crow (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1. |
Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast |
Crow-quill (n.) A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill. |
Crow's-feet (pl. ) of Crow's-foot |
Crow's-foot (n.) The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes. |
Crow's-foot (n.) A caltrop. |
Crow's-foot (n.) Same as Bird's-mouth. |
Crow-silk (n.) A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing). |
Crow's-nest (n.) A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout. |
Crow-trodden (a.) Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. |
Impeyan pheasant () An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal. |
Jim-crow (n.) A machine for bending or straightening rails. |
Jim-crow (n.) A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways. |
Midden crow () The common European crow. |
Pheasant (n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia. |
Pheasant (n.) The ruffed grouse. |
Royston crow () See Hooded crow, under Hooded. |
Sea crow () The chough. |
Sea crow () The cormorant. |
Sea crow () The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls. |
Sea crow () The skua. |
Sea crow () The razorbill. |
Sea crow () The coot. |
Sea pheasant () The pintail duck. |
Water crow () The dipper. |
Water crow () The European coot. |
Water pheasant () The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1. |
Water pheasant (n.) The goosander. |
Water pheasant (n.) The hooded merganser. |
common shiner silversides Notropis cornutus | the common North American shiner |
common canary Serinus canaria | native to the Canary Islands and Azores, popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song |
common yellowthroat Maryland yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas | an American warbler |
grackle crow blackbird | long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage |
common starling Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
crow | black birds having a raucous call |
American crow Corvus brachyrhyncos | common crow of North America |
common European jay Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
common nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes | Old World nutcracker |
piping crow piping crow-shrike Gymnorhina tibicen | crow-sized black-and-white bird, a good mimic often caged |
black vulture carrion crow Coragyps atratus | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard |
common newt Triturus vulgaris | small semiaquatic salamander |
common snapping turtle snapper Chelydra serpentina | large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water, prone to bite |
common iguana iguana Iguana iguana | large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back, used as human food in Central America and South America |
common kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus | widespread in United States except northern regions, black or brown with yellow bands |
common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
adder common viper Vipera berus | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
pheasant | large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere |
ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus | common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring |
argus argus pheasant | large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant |
golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus | brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia |
crow pheasant Centropus sinensis | common coucal of India and China |
pheasant coucal pheasant cuckoo Centropus phasianinus | Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant |
common scoter Melanitta nigra | a variety of scoter |
common brant goose Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
common opossum Didelphis virginiana Didelphis marsupialis | omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States, noted for feigning death when in danger, esteemed as food in some areas, considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America |
common wallaby Macropus agiles | a small wallaby having a height ofinches |
common shrew Sorex araneus | common American shrew |
common roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
common limpet Patella vulgata | marine limpet |
common spoonbill Platalea leucorodia | pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa |
common murre Uria aalge | the most frequent variety of murre |
finback finback whale fin whale common rorqual Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
common dolphin Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
pilot whale black whale common blackfish blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
harbor seal common seal Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
common lynx Lynx lynx | of northern Eurasia |
common louse Pediculus humanus | head or body louse |
common mosquito Culex pipiens | common house mosquito |
common wasp Vespula vulgaris | a variety of vespid wasp |
common pond-skater Gerris lacustris | a variety of water strider |
common booklouse Trogium pulsatorium | a variety of booklouse |
common European earwig Forficula auricularia | sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs |
crowbait crow-bait | an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows |
common zebra Burchell's zebra Equus Burchelli | of the plains of central and eastern Africa |
common eland Taurotragus oryx | dark fawnolored eland of southern and eastern Africa |
common raccoon common racoon coon ringtail Procyon lotor | North American raccoon |
common eel freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn, found in Europe and America, marketed both fresh and smoked |
common American shad Alosa sapidissima | shad of Atlantic coast of North America, naturalized to Pacific coast |