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   Buffel duck . [See Buffalo.] (Zool.) A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.
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   Duck, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ]
    (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinæ, family Anatidæ.
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   ☞ The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc.
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   A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
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   Here be, without duck or nod,
   Other trippings to be trod.
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   Bombay duck (Zool.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zool.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. -- Duck barnacle. (Zool.) See Goose barnacle. -- Duck hawk. (Zool.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zool.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably. -- Lame duck. See under Lame.
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