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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.]

(Zool.)

One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.

☞ The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus

Uria

(as

U. troile

); the black or foolish guillemot (

Cepphus grylle

, formerly

Uria grylle

), is called also

sea pigeon

and

eligny

. See

Noun.

A water fowl of the genus Colymbus, and order of ansers. It is found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America.