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Water Mole :: Water mole () The duck mole. See under Duck.

Poultry :: Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese..

Tough-head :: Tough-head (n.) The ruddy duck.

Canvasback :: Canvasback (n.) A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back..

Anatiferous :: Anatiferous (a.) Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle..

Stiff-tailed :: Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Anseriformes :: Anseriformes (n. pl.) A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms..

Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them..

Skunkball :: Skunkball (n.) The surf duck.

Fowl :: Fowl (n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus)..

Teal :: Teal (n.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Duck :: Duck (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

Querquedule :: Querquedule (n.) The pintail duck.

Ducking :: Ducking () n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i..

Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..

Team :: Team (n.) A flock of wild ducks.

Monotremata :: Monotremata (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna..

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