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A tropic bird. (b) A jager, or skua gull.

n that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Cor. ix. 25. O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery. B. Jonson.

A gull.

A species of gull or tern. [Prov.] Lowell.

A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

have cast down and trod in dirty mire. Spenser. Mire crow (Zoöl.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.

Same as Mew, a gull.

A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.

A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an East Indian term. E. Arnold.

iving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. (Zoöl.) See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n.

The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.

The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. [Slang] Blue pigeon (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow. -- Green pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ. -- Imperial pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of the large Asia…

The laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.]

The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus).

e bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

The young of any gull. [Written also scaurie.] [prov. Eng.]

; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.

The common skua gull. [Prov. Eng.]