Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
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Examples
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Dwelling indeed no more but for the hoodie-crow, and for the fawn of the hill that years after I saw treading over the grass-grown lintel of its door.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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“What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyas with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow? by the mass, and thou hast neglected its castings also for these two days!
The Abbot 2008
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