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A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.

The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. [Obs.] Minsheu.

strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

A catch made by a player on side who makes a prescribed signal that he will not attempt to advance the ball when caught. He must not then be interfered with.

Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.

One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.

To overtake. [Obs.]

A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.

Stilts. [Prov. Eng.]

A full-grown male fur seal. [Alaska]

A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.

One who cavils at words.

parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg commo…

To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention. Buckminster.

Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.