Deer

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deer \Deer\ (d[=e]r), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal,
     wild animal, AS. de['o]r; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G.
     thier, tier, Icel. d[=y]r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of
     unknown origin. [root]71.]
     1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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              Mice and rats, and such small deer.   --Shak.
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              The camel, that great deer.           --Lindisfarne
                                                    MS.
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     2. (Zool.) A ruminant of the genus {Cervus}, of many species,
        and of related genera of the family {Cervid[ae]}. The
        males, and in some species the females, have solid
        antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually.
        Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called
        {venison}.
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     Note: The deer hunted in England is {Cervus elaphus}, called
           also stag or {red deer}; the fallow deer is {Cervus
           dama}; the common American deer is {Cervus
           Virginianus}; the blacktailed deer of Western North
           America is {Cervus Columbianus}; and the mule deer of
           the same region is {Cervus macrotis}. See {Axis},
           {Fallow deer}, {Mule deer}, {Reindeer}.
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     Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
           a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying,
           deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.
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     {Deer mouse} (Zool.), the white-footed mouse ({Peromyscus
        leucopus}, formerly {Hesperomys leucopus}) of America.
  
     {Small deer}, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used
        metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the
        first definition, above.) "Minor critics . . . can find
        leisure for the chase of such small deer." --G. P. Marsh.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deer
       n : distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid
           deciduous antlers [syn: {cervid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "deer":
     Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard,
     caribou, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer, fawn,
     gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose,
     mule deer, musk deer, okapi, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer,
     roebuck, springbok, stag, wildebeest
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Deer, AR
    Zip code(s): 72628