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marabout
(mass) | marabout
- marabu |
marabout
(encz) | marabout,marabut n: Zdeněk Brož |
marabout
(gcide) | Marabou \Mar`a*bou"\ (m[a^]r"[.a]b[=oo]"), n. [F.]
1. (Zool.) A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of
the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the
African species (Leptoptilus crumeniferus syn.
Leptoptilos crumenifer), whose downy under-wing feathers
are used to trim garments; called also marabout. The
Asiatic species (Leptoptilos dubius, or {Leptoptilos
argala}) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also
marabu.]
[1913 Webster]
2. One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a
mulatto and a griffe. [Louisiana] --Bartlett.
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3. A kind of thrown raw silk, nearly white naturally, but
capable of being dyed without scouring; also, a thin
fabric made from it, as for scarfs, which resembles the
feathers of the marabou in delicacy, -- whence the name.
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Marabout
(gcide) | Marabout \Marabout"\ (m[a^]r"[.a]b[=oo]t"), n. [F., from Pg.
marabuto, Ar. mor[=a]bit. Cf. Maravedi.]
1. A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work
cures supernaturally.
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2. (Zool.) The marabou[1].
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marabout
(wn) | marabout
n 1: large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its
downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments [syn:
marabou, marabout, marabou stork, {Leptoptilus
crumeniferus}] |
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Marabout
(gcide) | Marabou \Mar`a*bou"\ (m[a^]r"[.a]b[=oo]"), n. [F.]
1. (Zool.) A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of
the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the
African species (Leptoptilus crumeniferus syn.
Leptoptilos crumenifer), whose downy under-wing feathers
are used to trim garments; called also marabout. The
Asiatic species (Leptoptilos dubius, or {Leptoptilos
argala}) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also
marabu.]
[1913 Webster]
2. One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a
mulatto and a griffe. [Louisiana] --Bartlett.
[1913 Webster]
3. A kind of thrown raw silk, nearly white naturally, but
capable of being dyed without scouring; also, a thin
fabric made from it, as for scarfs, which resembles the
feathers of the marabou in delicacy, -- whence the name.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Marabout \Marabout"\ (m[a^]r"[.a]b[=oo]t"), n. [F., from Pg.
marabuto, Ar. mor[=a]bit. Cf. Maravedi.]
1. A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work
cures supernaturally.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) The marabou[1].
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