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5 definitions found 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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