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Crowfoot  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
2.
(Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
3.
(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crow's-foot)
4.
(Well Boring) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.


Crow's-foot  n.  (pl. crow's-feet)  
1.
pl. The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.
2.
(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crowfoot)
3.
(Arch.) Same as Bird's-mouth. (U.S.)





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"Crowfoot" Quotes from Famous Books



... would run clear from it, in spite of the impatient exclamations of Francis, that it "would do now," and quite regardless of the inconvenience to which I was subjected by being kept in the pickle-jar. In this gravel she had embedded the roots of some Water Crowfoot and other pond-plants. The stones in the middle were nicely arranged, and well covered with moss and water-weeds. When water had been poured in up to the brim of the bell-glass, and we had been emptied out of the jars, ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
... of the best plants are water-crowfoot, water-starwort, and the great water moss. Anacharis should not be introduced into any water, either pond or stream, unless it can be kept down easily. It will otherwise become ...
— Amateur Fish Culture • Charles Edward Walker
... of the Severn, we have several varieties of the River Crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans), which, with their long slender stems and pure white blossoms, form a conspicuous feature; also the Canadian Water-weed (Anacharis alsinastrum), which has found its way as high up as Shrewsbury. In marshy flats bordering on the river, are found the Yellow Flag (Iris ...
— Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway - Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from - Worcester to Shrewsbury • J. Randall
... Justin with most MSS. both of the Old Latin and of the Vulgate, the Curetonian Syriac (Crowfoot), Clement, Hilary, and Lucifer, against [Greek: ophelaethaesetai] of the ...
— The Gospels in the Second Century - An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work - Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' • William Sanday


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