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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n.
1. A person having red hair.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
a An American duck ({Aythya Americana}) highly esteemed
as a game bird. It is closely allied to the
canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red.
Called also {red-headed duck}. {American poachard},
{grayback}, and {fall duck}. See Illust. under
{Poachard}.
b The red-headed woodpecker. See {Woodpecker}.
3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed ({Asclepias Curassavica}) with
red flowers. It is used in medicine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The red-breasted or gray snipe ({Macrorhamphus griseus}); --
called also {brownback}, and {grayback}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grayback \Gray"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
a The California gray whale.
b The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.
c The dowitcher.
d The body louse.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gray \Gray\, a. [Compar. {Grayer}; superl. {Grayest}.] [OE.
gray, grey, AS gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw OHG.
gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
[Written also {grey}.]
1. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt,
or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes a dark
mixed color; as the soft gray eye of a dove.
These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I.
Newton.
2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
3. Old mature; as gray experience. Ames.
{Gray antimony} (Min.), stibnite.
{Gray buck} (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
{Gray cobalt} (Min.), smaltite.
{Gray copper} (Min.), tetrahedrite.
{Gray duck} (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the
female mallard.
{Gray falcon} (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.
{Gray Friar}. See {Franciscan}, and {Friar}.
{Gray hen} (Zo["o]l.), the female of the blackcock or black
grouse. See {Heath grouse}.
{Gray mill or millet} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the
genus {Lithospermum}; gromwell.
{Gray mullet} (Zo["o]l.) any one of the numerous species of
the genus {Mugil}, or family {Mugilid[ae]}, found both in
the Old World and America; as the European species ({M.
capito}, and {M. auratus}), the American striped mullet
({M. albula}), and the white or silver mullet ({M.
Braziliensis}). See {Mullet}.
{Gray owl} (Zo["o]l.), the European tawny or brown owl
({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea})
inhabits arctic America.
{Gray parrot} (Zo["o]l.), a parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}),
very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in
learning to talk.
{Gray pike}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Sauger}.
{Gray snapper} (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer.
See {Snapper}.
{Gray snipe} (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
{Gray whale} (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift California
whale ({Rhachianectes glaucus}), formerly taken in large
numbers in the bays; -- called also {grayback},
{devilfish}, and {hardhead}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
grayback
n 1: (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for
Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the
American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray
Confederate uniforms [syn: {Rebel}, {Reb}, {Johnny Reb},
{Johnny}]
2: a dowitcher with a gray back [syn: {Limnodromus griseus}]
3: sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S
hemisphere [syn: {knot}, {Calidris canutus}]
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