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Peachick :: Peachick (n.) The chicken of the peacock.

Pavan :: Pavan (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Argus :: Argus (n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail..

Eye :: Eye (n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock..

Ocellus :: Ocellus (n.) An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock..

Peacock :: Peacock (n.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies..

Peafowl :: Peafowl (n.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

Pavone :: Pavone (n.) A peacock.

Io Moth :: Io moth () A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles..

Pavo :: Pavo (n.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere..

Flabellum :: Flabellum (n.) A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers..

Argus Shell :: Argus shell () A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail..

Harl :: Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies..

Meacock :: Meacock (n.) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man..

Acock :: Acock (adv.) In a cocked or turned up fashion.

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

Nymph :: Nymph (n.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad..

Rasorial :: Rasorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like..

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