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Decoy-duck :: Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger..

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

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Earlduck :: Earlduck (n.) The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

Spine-tailed :: Spinetail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Speculum :: Speculum (n.) A bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female..

Spoonbill :: Spoonbill (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..

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

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..

Mallard :: Mallard (a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.

Bergander :: Bergander (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

Geoduck :: Geoduck (n.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food..

Duck's-bill :: Duck's-bill (a.) Having the form of a duck's bill.

Decoy :: Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net..

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

Duck :: Duck (n.) A pet; a darling.

Anseres :: Anseres (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc..

Dunbird :: Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.

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