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Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak. The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.

A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.

One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.

A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.

One who practices deerstalking.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

(Mil.)

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

A small American plover (Ægialitis vocifera).

A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.

One who managed a petard.

See Reindeer. [Obs.]

See Reindeer. [Obs.]

Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

The roebuck.

A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.