Barclay, Ship of Fools

If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together. Shak., C. of E., iii. 1. If you dispute, we must even pluck a crow about it. Sir R. L'Estrange. Tree-crows, the birds of the subfamily Call eating , family Corvid a. - White-breasted crow, Corvus dauuricus , of northern Asia, China, and Japan. An emaciated or de crow-bait (krō'bāt), п . crepit horse, as likely soon to become carrion, and so attractive to crows. [Colloq.] crowbar (kro'bär), n. A bar of iron with a wedge-shaped end, sometimes slightly bent and crow-blackbird (krō'blak'bėrd), n. A name of the purple grackle, Quiscalus purpure us , an American pa erine bird of the family Icteri dæ and subfamily Quiscalina, common in the IMG:content-1694.jpg:[graphic] Crow-blackbird ( Quiscalus purpure us). eastern United States: so called from its large size and dark color, which give it somewhat the appearance of a crow. The male is about 13 inches long and 174 inches in extent of wings. The plumage is richly iridescent, with green, blue, violet, purple, and bronzy tints; the bill and feet are ebony-black; the iris is straw-yellow; the tail is somewhat boat-shaped. The female is blackish and quite lustrous, in this differing from some related species, and also a little smaller than the male. A variety has a perfectly bra y back and steel-blue head; it is sometimes distinguished as the bronzed crow-blackbird. The name is extended to the other species of the same genus. Q. major is a larger species of the southern United States, known as the boat tailed crow - blackbird or grackle , and locally called jack daw . The tail is much carinated, and the disproportion in size of the sexes is very great, the female being only about 13 inches long, while the male is 15 to 17; the peculiar development of the tail is lacking in the female, and the color is plain grayish-brown, the male being richly iridescent black. A still larger species, the fan - tailed crow - blackbird , Q. macrurus , also called Texas grackle , inhabits the Gulf States and Mexico; the male attains a length of 18 inches, while the female is much smaller. All these birds are gregarious, nest in trees and bushes, sometimes in holes, and lay 5 or 6 greenish eggs, clouded, veined, and scratched with various dark colors. crow che mes set, n. See crouch mas . crow-corn (krō'kôrn), n. The colic-root, Aletris farinosa , the white mealy flowers of which somewhat resemble kernels of grain. crowd1 (kroud), v . [ crowden , crouden , cru den , push, shove, drive, pre forward, crud an , push, pre , drive (usually cited as creódan , which, however, could not produce the E. form; neither inf. occurs, but only 3d pers. sing. ind. erŷdeth and pret. creád , occurring once each; the pret. pl. would be * crud on , the pp. croden , > croda , n., and gecrod , n., in the poetical compounds linderoda , the shock of shields (battle), lindgecrod , the shielded throng (warriors), hlōthgecrod , the heaped throng (clouds), etc.), = MD. kruyden , contr. kruyen , D. kruijen , drive, push in a wheelbarrow (cf. def. I., 2). Other connections not found.] I. trans. 1. To push; force forward; shove; impel. O firste moevyng cruel firmament, With thy diurnal sweigh that crowd est ay And hurlest al from Est til Occident.