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Crow   /kroʊ/   Listen
Crow

noun
1.
Black birds having a raucous call.
2.
The cry of a cock (or an imitation of it).
3.
A member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana.
4.
A small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo.  Synonym: Corvus.
5.
An instance of boastful talk.  Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing.  "Whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
6.
A Siouan language spoken by the Crow.
verb
(past crew or crowed; past part. crowed, obs. crown; pres. part. crowing)
1.
Dwell on with satisfaction.  Synonyms: gloat, triumph.
2.
Express pleasure verbally.
3.
Utter shrill sounds.



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"Crow" Quotes from Famous Books



... table"—Mrs. Finnegan held up Ouida's Moths—"and I got so interested in it that I just naturally forgot to go home. Finnegan's out, anyway. I was telling him about your good fortune. And all he said was: 'Well, it beats me how an old crow like Mrs. Condor gets paid for singing. I remember five years ago, when she wasn't so uppish, we had her for a benefit performance of the Native Sons, and she didn't get paid then. Her singing may be over my head. Anyway, it didn't get to my ears.' But Finnegan is always like that. He just likes ...
— The Blood Red Dawn • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... Creek! Pete, you mounted fellers round up a little—bunch the herd a little closer, an' drive straight along the trail towards that other fence. We'll all help you as soon as the wranglers bring us up something to ride. Push 'em hard, limp or no limp, till dark. They'll be too tired to go crow-hopping 'round any in the dark to-night. An' say! When you see that bummer, if he wasn't got by the fence, drop him clean. So they've ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... get possession of old Rouget. But the Parisians were not clever enough; that lawyer can't crow over us Berrichons!" ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... fur and marks of scratching show where a doe has been preparing for a litter. Some well-trodden runs lead from mound to mound; they are sandy near the hedge where the particles have been carried out adhering to the rabbits' feet and fur. A crow rises lazily from the upper end of the field, and perches in the chestnut. His presence, too, was unsuspected. He is there by far too frequently. At this season the crows are always in the mowing-grass, searching about, stalking in winding tracks from furrow to furrow, picking ...
— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies
... He commented in the language that used to be used by the bullock-punchers of the good days as they pranced up and down by their teams and lammed into the bullocks with saplings and crow-bars, and called on them to lift a heavy load out of a bog in the bed of a ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson


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