Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus ostrilegus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The oyster catcher.

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  • noun Scotland, dialect A bird, the oystercatcher.

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  • Porro ahoqum ex metallorum exemplo facile conftat, graviores humores leviora tirma corpora lol - vere, ut idem quidem vitrioli oleum partes animales devorat (p): neque tamen etiam in hifce folutionihus ullam legem Hambergerianae fimilem obtinere.

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

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