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Gizzard shad
(gcide) | Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the
cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.]
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1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in
which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened
in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the
esophagus; the gigerium.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate
animals.
(b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or
teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
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Gizzard shad (Zool.), an American herring ({Dorosoma
cepedianum}) resembling the shad, but of little value.
To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to
worry. [Low] --Hudibras.
To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to
be offensive. [Low]
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