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Crowfoot   Listen
noun
Crowfoot  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
2.
(Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
3.
(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crow's-foot)
4.
(Well Boring) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.


Crow's-foot  n.  (pl. crow's-feet)  
1.
pl. The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.
2.
(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crowfoot)
3.
(Arch.) Same as Bird's-mouth. (U.S.)





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"Crowfoot" Quotes from Famous Books



... gray moorland. High up among the alpine heights his gentian spreads its lakes of blue; amid the snows of the Himalayas his rhododendrons gleam with crimson light. Even the wayside pond yields him the white crowfoot and the arrowhead, while the broad expanses of Brazilian streams are beautified by his gorgeous water-lilies. The insect has thus turned the whole surface of the earth into a boundless flower-garden, which supplies him from year to year with pollen or honey, and ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... them, that not only Mrs. Pennel's best India china vases on the keeping-room mantel were filled, but here stood a tumbler of scarlet rock columbine, and there a bowl of blue and white violets, and in another place a saucer of shell-tinted crowfoot, blue liverwort, and white anemone, so that Zephaniah Pennel was wont to say there wasn't a drink of water to be got, for Mara's flowers; but he always said it with a smile that made his weather-beaten, hard features look like a rock lit up by a sunbeam. Little ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... couldn't let that complaint go by unchallenged. I told him of our range-lilies and foxglove and buffalo-beans and yellow crowfoot and wild sunflowers and prairie-roses and crocuses and even violets in some sections. "And the prairie-grasses, Peter—don't forget the prairie-grasses," I concluded, perplexed for a moment by the rather grim smile that crept up into his rather solemn ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... WATER CROWFOOT (Ranunculus aquatilis).—The white flowers, with yellow eyes, make quite a sheet over the ponds of Cranbury Common, etc. Ivy-leaved (R. hederaceus).—Not so frequent. The ivy-shaped leaves float above, the long fibrous ones go below. When there is lack ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... or northward, his eye ranged over the lovely undulating Sussex Weald, with its park-like, well-wooded hills and valleys, now in the first blush of their summer beauty, the leafage all tender green, and the soft meadowlike pastures gilded with the dazzling yellow of the over-abundant crowfoot. ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn
... importance. The Blackfeet, the most formidable body of natives in the Territories, never broke the peace, although they were more than once very restless. Their good behaviour was chiefly owing to the influence of Chief Crowfoot, always a ...
— Canada • J. G. Bourinot


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