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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deer \Deer\ (d[=e]r), n. sing. & pl [OE. der, deor, animal, wild animal, AS de['o]r; akin to D. dier, OFries diar, G. thier, tier, Icel. d[=y]r, Dan. dyr, Sw djur, Goth. dius; of unknown origin. [root]71.] 1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. --Shak. The camel, that great deer. --Lindisfarne MS 2. (Zo["o]l.) A ruminant of the genus {Cervus}, of many species, and of related genera of the family {Cervid[ae]}. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison. Note: The deer hunted in England is {Cervus elaphus}, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is {C. dama}; the common American deer is {C. Virginianus}; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is {C. Columbianus}; and the mule deer of the same region is {C. macrotis}. See {Axis}, {Fallow deer}, {Mule deer}, {Reindeer}. Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as deerkiller deerslayer deerslaying deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike etc {Deer mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the white-footed mouse ({Hesperomys leucopus}) of America. {Small deer}, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) ``Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer.'' --G. P. Marsh. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deer n : distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers [syn: {cervid}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Deer, AR Zip code(s): 72628
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