DUCK
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Duck (dŭk), n. [Cf. Dan. dukke, Sw. docka, OHG. doccha, G. docke. Cf. Doxy.] A pet; a darling. Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Duck, n. [D. doek cloth, canvas, or Icel. d&ū;kr 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]
Duck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ducked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ducking.] [OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken, OHG. t&unr_;hhan, MHG. tucken, t&ü;cken, t&unr_;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]
Duck (dŭk), 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]
Duck, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ] 1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinæ, family Anatidæ.
[1913 Webster]
&hand_; 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 (Zo&ö;l.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zo&ö;l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. -- Duck barnacle. (Zo&ö;l.) See Goose barnacle. -- Duck hawk. (Zo&ö;l.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zo&ö;l.), 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]
