[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

widgeon \widg"eon\, n. probably from an old french form of f.
   vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. l. vipio,
   -onis, a kind of small crane. zool.
   any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially
   those belonging to the subgenus mareca, of the genus
   anas. the common european widgeon anas penelope and the
   american widgeon anas americana are the most important
   species. the latter is called also baldhead, baldpate,
   baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and
   whitebelly.
   1913 webster

   bald-faced widgeon, or green-headed widgeon, the american
      widgeon.

   black widgeon, the european tufted duck.

   gray widgeon.
   a the gadwall.
   b the pintail duck.

   great headed widgeon, the poachard.

   pied widgeon.
   a the poachard.
   b the goosander.

   saw-billed widgeon, the merganser.

   sea widgeon. see in the vocabulary.

   spear widgeon, the goosander. prov. eng.

   spoonbilled widgeon, the shoveler.

   white widgeon, the smew.

   wood widgeon, the wood duck.
      1913 webster
see also:
mareca anas anas penelope anas americana baldhead baldpate 
baldface baldcrown smoking duck wheat duck 
whitebelly bald-faced widgeon green-headed widgeon black widgeon gray widgeon 
great headed widgeon pied widgeon saw-billed widgeon sea widgeon spear widgeon 
spoonbilled widgeon white widgeon wood widgeon 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

duck \duck\, v. t. imp.  p. p. ducked; p. pr.  vb. n.
   ducking. oe. duken, douken, to dive; akin to d. duiken,
   ohg. t?hhan, mhg. tucken, t"ucken, t?chen, g. tuchen. cf.
   5th duck.
   1. to thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and
      suddenly withdraw.
      1913 webster

            adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice,
            leaped out of the tub.                --fielding.
      1913 webster

   2. to plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing
      it; as, duck the boy.
      1913 webster

   3. to bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward
      motion. " will duck his head aside." --swift.
      1913 webster
see also:
ducked ducking duck 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

duck \duck\ du^k, n. cf. dan. dukke, sw. docka, ohg.
   doccha, g. docke. cf. doxy.
   a pet; a darling. --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
doxy 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

duck \duck\, n. d. doek cloth, canvas, or icel. d=ukr cloth;
   akin to ohg. tuoh, g. tuch, sw. duk, dan. dug.
   1. a linen or sometimes cotton fabric, finer and lighter
      than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the
      sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
      1913 webster

   2. naut. pl. the light clothes worn by sailors in hot
      climates. colloq.
      1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

duck \duck\ du^k, v. i.
   1. to go under the surface of water and immediately reappear;
      to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to
      dip.
      1913 webster

            in tiber ducking thrice by break of day. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
      1913 webster

            the learned pate
            ducks to the golden fool.             --shak.
      1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

duck \duck\, n. oe. duke, doke. see duck, v. t. 
   1. zool. any bird of the subfamily anatinae, family
      anatidae.
      1913 webster

   note: the genera and species are numerous. they are divided
         into river ducks and sea ducks. among the former
         are the common domestic duck anas boschas; the wood
         duck aix sponsa; the beautiful mandarin duck of
         china dendronessa galeriliculata; the muscovy duck,
         originally of south america cairina moschata. among
         the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc.
         1913 webster

   2. a sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the
      person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
      1913 webster

            here be, without duck or nod,
            other trippings to be trod.           --milton.
      1913 webster

   bombay duck zool., a fish. see bummalo.

   buffel duck, spirit duck. see buffel duck.

   duck ant zool., a species of white ant in jamaica which
      builds large nests in trees.

   duck barnacle. zool. see goose barnacle.

   duck hawk. zool.
      a in the united states: the peregrine falcon.
      b in england: the marsh harrier or moor buzzard.

   duck mole zool., a small aquatic mammal of australia,
      having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck
      ornithorhynchus anatinus. it belongs the subclass
      monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird
      or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus,
      mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole.
      

   to make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely,
      so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of
      the water, raising a succession of jets; hence:

   to play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it
      away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably.
      

   lame duck. see under lame.
      1913 webster
see also:
duck anatinae anatidae river ducks sea ducks anas boschas 
aix sponsa dendronessa galeriliculata cairina moschata bombay duck bummalo 
buffel duck spirit duck duck ant duck barnacle goose barnacle 
duck hawk duck mole ornithorhynchus anatinus duckbill platypus 
mallangong mullingong tambreet water mole to make ducks and drakes 
to play at ducks and drakes lame duck lame 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

duck
     n 1: small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming
          bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
     2: cricket a score of nothing by a batsman syn: duck's egg
     3: flesh of a duck domestic or wild
     4: a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and
        tents
     v 1: to move the head or body quickly downwards or away;
          "before he could duck, another stone struck him"
     2: submerge or plunge suddenly
     3: dip into a liquid; "he dipped into the pool" syn: dip, douse
     4: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
        duties, questions, or issues; "he dodged the issue";
        "she skirted the problem"; "they tend to evade their
        responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
        syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent,
        parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep
see also:
duck's egg dip douse hedge fudge evade 
put off circumvent parry elude skirt 
dodge sidestep 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

332 moby thesaurus words for "duck":
   adamite, bantam, cornish hen, about the bush, also-ran, angel,
   avert, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, babe, baby, baby-doll,
   back and fill, banty, baptism, baptize, barn-door fowl,
   barnyard fowl, bastard, beat around, beg the question, being, bend,
   bend the knee, biddy, bilk, bird, blench, blink, bob, body, booby,
   bow, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bugger, burial, bury, buttercup,
   caille, canard, caneton, capon, case, cat, chanticleer, chap,
   chapon, character, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky,
   circumvention, cock, cockerel, creature, cringe, crouch, curtsy,
   customer, darling, dear, deary, defeatee, defense mechanism,
   deluge, dindon, dip, dipping, dive, dodge, dog it, doll,
   domestic fowl, double, douse, dousing, drake, draw back, draw in,
   drown, duck duty, ducking, duckling, dunghill fowl, dunk, dunking,
   earthling, elude, elusion, elusiveness, engulf, engulfment,
   equivocate, equivocation, escape, eschew, evade, evasion,
   evasive action, evasiveness, fade, faisan, fall back, fall guy,
   fallback, feller, fellow, fence, flinch, float, flood, flow on,
   forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fowl, fryer, game fowl,
   game loser, gander, genuflect, genuflection, get out of,
   getting around, gobbler, goldbrick, good loser, good sport,
   goof off, goose, gosling, groundling, grouse, guinea cock,
   guinea fowl, guinea hen, guy, hand, hang back, head, hedge,
   hem and haw, hen, hen turkey, homo, hon, honey, honey bunch,
   honey child, hum and haw, human, human being, immerge, immergence,
   immerse, immersion, individual, inundate, inundation, jasper, jib,
   jink, joker, kneel, kneeling, kowtow, lad, lamb, lambkin, life,
   living soul, loser, love, lover, make a reverence, malinger, man,
   merge, mince the truth, mince words, mortal, neutrality, nod,
   nonintervention, noninvolvement, nose, not pull fair, obeisance,
   oddball, oddity, oie, one, original, overwhelm, palter, parry,
   partlet, partridge, party, person, personage, personality, pet,
   petkins, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, plunge, plunge in water,
   poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pour on, precious, precious heart,
   prevaricate, prevent, prevention, prostration, pull away,
   pull back, pull in, pull out, pullback, pullet, pullout, pussyfoot,
   put off, quail, quiz, rain, recoil, reel back, refraining, retract,
   retreat, reverence, roaster, rooster, salaam, setting hen,
   sheer off, shift, shift off, shirk, shrink, shrink back, shun,
   shunning, shunting off, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep,
   sidestepping, sidetracking, single, sink, sinking, skulk, slack,
   slide out of, slip, slip out of, sluice, sneak out of, snookums,
   soldier, somebody, someone, soul, souse, sousing, spook, sport,
   spring chicken, squab, squat, start aside, start back,
   steer clear of, step aside, stewing chicken, stooge, stoop, stud,
   submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, sugar, supination,
   swamp, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swerve,
   tellurian, tergiversate, terran, the runaround, the vanquished,
   tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, turn aside,
   underdog, victim, volaille, waffle, ward, ward off, weasel,
   weasel out, welsh, whelm, wild duck, wince, withdraw, worldling,
   zigzag, zombie

[9] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

duck-:bill:, n.  your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back
season.

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

duck, wv
  zip codes: 25063

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