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A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.

off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

The mature female of bovine animals.

A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.

The stomach of an animal.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him…

A hole or retreat onto which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger.

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.

A person or animal whose ears are cropped.

A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks.

To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl.

The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hæmoglobin.

An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.