Buffel duck () A small duck (Charitonetta albeola) |
Bull-necked (a.) Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. |
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). |
Ewe-necked (a.) Having a neck like a ewe |
Low-necked (a.) Cut low in the neck |
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. |
Necked (imp. & p. p.) of Neck |
Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck |
Necked (a.) Cracked |
Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth. |
Ring (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body |
Ring (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell |
Ring (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. |
Ring (v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. |
Ring (v. i.) To practice making music with bells. |
Ring (v. i.) To sound loud |
Ring (v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate |
Ring (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk |
Ring (n.) A sound |
Ring (n.) Any loud sound |
Ring (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. |
Ring (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop. |
Ring (n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person |
Ring (n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed |
Ring (n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight |
Ring (n.) A circular group of persons. |
Ring (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. |
Ring (n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure. |
Ring (n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite. |
Ring (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium. |
Ring (n.) A clique |
Ring (v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring |
Ring (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark |
Ring (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout. |
Ring (v. i.) To rise in the air spirally. |
ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
ring-around-theosy ring-around-aosy ring-aosy | a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat |
round dance ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
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 |
ring vaccination | administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient, prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization |
ring containment | a strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism, vaccination only of people exposed and others who are in contact with them, ring containment is a proven method of halting a smallpox epidemic |
ring rot bacteria Pseudomonas solanacearum | causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc |
ring ouzel ring blackbird ring thrush Turdus torquatus | European thrush common in rocky areas, the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck |
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 |
ringneck snake ring-necked snake ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
grass snake ring snake ringed snake Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
black-necked cobra spitting cobra Naja nigricollis | aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa, rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness |
ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus | common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring |
ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri | African parakeet |
red-shafted flicker Colaptes caper collaris | western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail |
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 |
Aythya genus Aythya | canvasback, redhead, pochard, etc. |
canvasback canvasback duck Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
pochard Aythya ferina | heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head |
redhead Aythya americana | North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head |
scaup scaup duck bluebill broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
greater scaup Aythya marila | large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence on the head of the male |
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 |
policeman bird black-necked stork jabiru Xenorhyncus asiaticus | large mostly white Australian stork |
black-necked stilt Himantopus mexicanus | stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck |
red-necked grebe Podiceps grisegena | large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck |
black-necked grebe eared grebe Podiceps nigricollis | small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck, found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States |
collared pika Ochotona collaris | similar to little chief hare and may be same species |
hog badger hog-nosed badger sand badger Arctonyx collaris | southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig |
Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
Madagascar cat ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
a bassarisk cacomistle cacomixle coon cat raccoon fox ringtail ring-tailed cat civet cat miner's cat Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
band ring | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) |
beltway bypass ring road ringway | a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
binder ring-binder | holds loose papers or magazines |