Word Finder - crow

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A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.

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The cry of the rooster.

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• cock-a-doodle-doo

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Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.

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A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

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• crowbar

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A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.

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(among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.

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A black person.

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The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.

I was eating crow on that one within a few days.

A little armadillo, the mulita, is the living representative of the antediluvian giants Mylodon, Megatherium, &c. The ostrich-Rhea americana-roams everywhere in the plains; and there are a few specimens of the vulture tribe, a native crow (lean, tall and ruffed), partridges and quails.

Lots more crow where that came from.

We see a black crow tightly holding a human mask which he is in the act of incubating.

Today she would have to eat crow along with the dust.

The pie belongs to the same family of birds as the crow, and is the Corvus pica of Linnaeus, the Pica caudata, P. melanoleuca, or P. rustica of modern ornithologists, who have recognized it as forming a distinct genus, but the number of species thereto belonging has been a fruitful source of discussion.

To walk in a winter morning in a wood where these birds abounded, their native woods, and hear the wild cockerels crow on the trees, clear and shrill for miles over the resounding earth, drowning the feebler notes of other birds--think of it!

As the crow flies, about seven miles, but as the old saying goes, a crow can't fly through rock.

I sure hope you like crow, 'cause you're going to be eating a bunch of it before Alex leaves.

You can see the bowsprit, foremast with crow's nest, a cannon.

Are your crow's feet so copious they could pass for a map of California's freeway system?

Crow could feel the apprehension in the toner's confines.

So will the tricolore be flying high or will there be something for the French cockerel to crow about?

Our target was the other endemic corvid, the White-necked Crow.

The right of access introduced by the CROW Act is for open air recreation on foot.

Report by Peter Talbot-Elsden 15 May 2005 A Kestrel and Crow simultaneously mobbed a stoat on the Horseshoe Vetch covered slopes of Mill Hill.

Sheryl Crow made her move to Los Angeles, California, in the late 1980s, where she landed a job singing commercial jingles for McDonalds and Toyota.

Crow herself battled breast cancer in 2007.

She had a lot of crow to eat and she wasn't feeling the least bit hungry.

Three days later more than 2000 of the Indians were surrounded and captured, Little Crow with a few of his companions alone escaping beyond the Missouri.

A "Jim Crow" law was enacted in 1891.

Betty is, in fact, a New Caledonian crow, a creature perhaps better adapted to bending wire than a cow.

Soon a carrion crow which has been doing its rounds over the upland fields spots the spill.

This... [Read More] Welcome to charlie crow - costumes for kids.

Next week will see a serious session with the Jim crow to convert the switches from right to left.

Choose the rabbit, deer, fluffy doggy, dinosaur, crow or camel.

Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth and brick eaves and corrugated tile roof with brick crow stepped coped gables.

Many of the Celtic goddesses are linked with the raven or crow.

Jim crow to convert the switches from right to left.

Can I use low level laser light on the Crow's Feet around my eyes?

It meant that the Mithraist symbolically died when he became a first grade neophyte and was born again as a crow.

Was Danny Crow really not worth a chance on the back of relegation, especially given his relative pittance of a salary?

Stick floats, Avons and crow quills need to be dusted down and even bodied wagglers too.

A tide of traffic sweeps along the ring road, pigeons fly about over town, along with the odd carrion crow.

With twelve minutes on the clock City drew level with a superbly taken goal from lone striker Danny Crow.

Claw hammers, crow bars, saws, dust pans and other tools provided by Mercy Corps are helping earthquake survivors implement clean-up plans.

The eagle, hawk, owl and crow are plentiful.

In the north, where the lichen-covered or ice-shaven rocks do not protrude, the ground is covered with a carpet of mosses, creeping dwarf willows, crow berries and similar plants, while the flowers most common are the andromeda, the yellow poppy, pedicularis, pyrola, &c. besides the flowering mosses; but in South Greenland there is something in the shape of bush, the dwarf birches even rising a few feet in very sheltered places, the willows may grow higher than a man, and the vegetation is less arctic and more abundant.

The Indians on reservations and in Indian schools include members of the Yankton, Yanktonai, Oglala, Brule, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Flandreau, Sioux, Blackfeet, Miniconjou, Sans Arc and Ute tribes, on the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations in the north of the state, the Lower Brule and Crow Creek reservations in the central part, and the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in the south.

Among plants, the bay, used in expiatory sacrifices and also for making the crown of victory at the Pythian games, and the palm-tree, under which he was born in Delos, were sacred to him; among animals and birds, the wolf, the roe, the swan, the hawk, the raven, the crow, the snake, the mouse, the grasshopper and the griffin, a mixture of the eagle and the lion evidently of Eastern origin.

Report by Peter Talbot-Elsden 15 May 2005 A Kestrel and Crow simultaneously mobbed a Stoat on the Horseshoe Vetch covered slopes of Mill Hill.

Map Crow - If you just need to figure out the distance between two cities, then MapCrow is a good choice.

Google Distance Calculator - This distance calculator works just like the one from Map Crow.

Mayer, currently touring with Sheryl Crow, was previously linked with Jennifer Love-Hewitt, despite his claims that he doesn't like to date celebrities.

Wilson, who is the brother of actor Luke Wilson, has been romatically linked to singer Sheryl Crow and actress Kate Hudson.

Lance made tabloid headlines almost immediately, with reports alleging that he was dating singer Sheryl Crow.

Ironically, Crow was diagnosed with cancer within days of the breakup.

While Bai Ling isn't necessarily a household name, she has appeared in a number of high profile movies and television roles, including The Crow, Lost and Entourage.

If you are looking for some recent gossip on Sheryl Crow, there are few celebrity websites you can visit.

Sheryl Crow was born in Kennett, Missouri.