Definition of duck

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Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

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Skunkhead :: Skunkhead (n.) A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck..
Bufflehead :: Bufflehead (n.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.
Fulmar :: Fulmar (n.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea)..
Skunkhead :: Skunkhead (n.) The surf duck.
Web-footed :: Web-footed (a.) Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl..
Desmognathous :: Desmognathous (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds..
Bergander :: Bergander (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.
Dunbird :: Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
Querquedule :: Querquedule (n.) The pintail duck.
Duck-billed :: Duck-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of a duck.
Anatine :: Anatine (a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.
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..
Muscovy Duck :: Muscovy duck () A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil..
Anatiferous :: Anatiferous (a.) Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle..
Callow :: Callow (n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Duck's-foot :: Duck's-foot (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
Sharptail :: Sharptail (n.) The pintail duck.
Blackhead :: Blackhead (n.) The scaup duck.
Drabbet :: Drabbet (n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck..
Gadwall :: Gadwall (n.) A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck..
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