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VerbarFumet

high flavored substance such as extract of game for flavoring dishes of food less properly a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine

Dolium

A genus of large univalve mollusks including the partridge shell and tun shells

Dimorphism

of the same species as when a plant has two kinds of flowers both hermaphrodite as in the partridge berry or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly

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Churr

such as that made by some insects as the cockchafer or by some birds as the nightjar the partridge etc

Checkerberry

A spicy plant and its bright red berry the wintergreen Gaultheria procumbens Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry Mitchella repens

Covey

of young hence a small flock or number of birds together said of game as a covey of partridges

Perdicine

Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidaelig or partridges

Animals

dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such as lions, bears, etc. (3) Animals fer' natur', butharmless, such as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME. Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property

Birds

Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever

Fer' natur', animals

natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not

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