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Get me an iron crow, and bring it
straight

Unto my cell.

Shak.

3. The cry of the cock. See Crow,
v. i., 1.

4. The mesentery of a beast; -- so called
by butchers.

Carrion crow. See under
Carrion. -- Crow blackbird
(Zoöl.), an American bird (Quiscalus
quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. --
Crow pheasant (Zoöl.), an
Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives
to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow
shrike (Zoöl.), any bird of the genera
Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly
from Australia. -- Red-legged crow.
See Crough. -- As the crow
flies, in a direct line. -- To pick a
crow, To pluck a crow, to state
and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).

Crow"bar` (kr?"b?r), n. A bar
of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.

Crow`ber`ry (kr?"b?r`r?), n.
(Bot.


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