Word Meanings - SHARPTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pintail duck. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.

CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
PRAIRIE
1. An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From
PINTAIL
A northern duck , native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
GROUSER
A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.
CHICKEN-HEARTED
Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.
CHICKEN
1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence
PRAIRIE STATE
Illinois; -- a nickname.
CHICKEN POX
A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
GROUSE
) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidæ, and subfamily Tetraoninæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The
WATER CHICKEN
The common American gallinule.