adj
Meaning 1
Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.
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Usage: uncommon
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adj
Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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name
The Siouan language of this tribe.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: Absaroki
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name
A surname.
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noun
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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noun
Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
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noun
A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
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Synonyms: crowbar
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noun
Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.
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Usage: archaic, slang
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noun
A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
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Usage: historical
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noun
The mesentery of an animal.
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Qualifier: among butchers
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noun
An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
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Usage: derogatory
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Synonyms: battle axe, bitch, brim, brimstone, cat, cockatrice, crow, dragon, faggot, fishwife, harpy, harridan, hellcat, jade, nag, nudnik, scold, she-devil, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen, witch
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noun
A black person.
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Usage: ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
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noun
The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
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Usage: slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.
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Synonyms: cock-a-doodle-doo
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noun
Alternative spelling of cro (“marijuana”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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noun
A member of a Native American tribe of southern Montana.
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Synonyms: Crow Indian, Absaroka, Absáalooke, Apsáalooke
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verb
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
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verb
To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
black birds having a raucous call
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Broader terms: corvine bird
Narrower terms: American crow, Corvus brachyrhyncos
noun
a Siouan language spoken by the Crow
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Broader terms: Siouan, Siouan language
noun
an instance of boastful talk
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Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade
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Broader terms: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
noun
the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)
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Broader terms: cry
Narrower terms: cock-a-doodle-doo
noun
a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo
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Synonyms: Corvus
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Broader terms: constellation
noun
a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana
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Broader terms: Sioux, Siouan
verb
express pleasure verbally
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
verb
utter shrill sounds
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
verb
dwell on with satisfaction
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Synonyms: gloat, triumph
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Broader terms: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
Narrower terms: preen, congratulate
History
From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.
From French gens de corbeaux, calque of Dakota apsáaloke (“crow people”). Compare Crow Apsáalooke.
* From Middle English Crowe, as an Old English surname, related to crow. * As an Irish surname, from mac Conchradha. See McEnroe. * Also as an Irish surname, calque of Irish fiach (“crow, raven”) (see also Fee).
The verb is from Middle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-West Germanic *krāan, from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”). The noun is from Middle English crowe, from the verb. Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.
Across languages
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