pigeon : Idioms & Phrases

• noun wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
  Columba fasciata; band-tail pigeon; bandtail.
  

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• noun wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
  Columba fasciata; band-tail pigeon; bandtail.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); called also black-faced crow.

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• (Zoöl.), a petrel (Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pigeon.

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• noun a homing pigeon used to carry messages
  

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• (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home.

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• noun target used in skeet or trapshooting
  

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• noun domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of pigeons of the family Carpophagidæ, inhabiting India, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They feed largely upon fruit. and are noted for their beautiful colors.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ.

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• (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of pigeons which live largely upon the ground, as the tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), of the Samoan Islands, and the crowned pigeon, or goura. See Goura, and Ground dove (above).

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• noun pigeon trained to return home
  homer.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of pigeons of the genus Myristicivora, native of the East Indies and Australia. The color is usually white, or cream-white, with black on the wings and tail.

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• noun gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct
  Ectopistes migratorius.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations. now extinct!

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• noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
  scoke; Phytolacca americana; poke; garget.
  

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• (Bot.), the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed.

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• noun abnormal protrusion of the breastbone caused by rickets
  chicken breast.
  

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• noun droppings of pigeons
  

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• perhaps a corruption of business English, an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc.

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• (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds.

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• noun northern Pacific guillemot
  Cepphus columba.
  

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• noun small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry
  merlin; Falco columbarius.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox, ∨ fuscus).

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• . (a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house . (b) See Pigeonhole. (c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches. Halliwell.

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• a dovecote.

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• noun a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept
  loft.
  

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• noun tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
  red gram; dahl; dhal; Cajanus cajan; cajan pea; catjang pea; pigeon pea.
  
• noun small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant
  cajan pea; dahl.
  

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• (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself.
• . (Bot.) See Pigeon pea.

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• (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (C. ellipticus and C. luteus).

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• noun disability in which the toes are turned inward; often associated with knock-knee
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See under Tremex.

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• (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba.

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• (Zoöl.), the flicker.

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• adjective satellite having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets
  chicken-breasted.
  

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Pi"geon-breast`ed adjective

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1. Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

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Pi"geon-heart`ed adjective

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1. Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.

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Pi"geon-liv`ered adjective

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1. Pigeon-hearted.

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• noun tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
  red gram; dahl; dhal; Cajanus cajan; cajan pea; catjang pea; pigeon pea.
  

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• adjective having feet that turn inward
  

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• noun one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out
  pouter.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The upland plover . (b) The golden plover . Local, U.S.

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• (Zoöl.), the upland plover. See Plover, n., 2.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very large and handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. They are mostly pale blue, or ash-blue, marked with white, and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers. Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and Victoria pigeon.

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Queen pigeon, above.

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• noun pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
  Columba livia; rock dove.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under Pigeon.

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Sea" pi"geon

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1. The common guillemot.

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• (Zoöl.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black.

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Stockdove.

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• noun someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
  sneaker; canary; sneak; stoolpigeon; fink; stoolie; snitch; snitcher.
  
• noun a dummy pigeon used to decoy others
  

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• a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of longwinged arboreal pigeons native of Asia, Africa, and Australia, and belonging to Megaloprepia, Carpophaga, and allied genera.

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• noun pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
  tumbler; roller.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The rock dove. (b) The passenger pigeon.

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• noun Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
  cushat; ringdove; Columba palumbus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to Palumbus and allied genera of the family Columbidæ. (b) The ringdove.

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