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d. We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. Sir S. Baker.

The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. Milton. As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. Sir W. Scott.

The fat of a deer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

s for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, sir, have you taken soil here It is well a man may rea…

The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. [U. S.]

und at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. Wharton.

The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

The male red deer when four years old.

ling, as game. As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Sir W. Scott.

Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.

f the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.

mp blackbird. (Zoöl.) See Redwing (b). -- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. -- Swamp hen. (Zoöl.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); --…

ate of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

One of the first antlers of a deer.

An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.

tsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass. [Scot.] We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their tinchel cows the game! Sir W. Scott.

ach his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends tothe clan and watches over it. Bagehot.