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Toothbill :: Toothbill (n.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea..

Eye :: Eye (n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

Unfalcated :: Unfalcated (a.) Not falcated, or hooked..

Pothook :: Pothook (n.) A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.

Agrappes :: Agrappes (n. pl.) Hooks and eyes for armor, etc..

Hooking :: Hooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoo.

Macaw :: Macaw (n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted..

Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..

Angulous :: Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.

Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..

Cottrel :: Cottrel (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire..

Tenaculum :: Tenaculum (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like..

Hook :: Hook (n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook..

Aduncous :: Aduncous (a.) Curved inwards; hooked.

Uncinus :: Uncinus (n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.

Chatelaine :: Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain..

Myzostomata :: Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side..

Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..

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