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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Widgeon

Widg′eon (wĭj′ŭn), n. [Probably from an old French form of F. vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio, -onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly.

Bald-faced, or Green-headed, widgeon, the American widgeon. — Black widgeon, the European tufted duck. — Gray widgeon. (a) The gadwall. (b) The pintail duck. — Great headed widgeon, the poachard. — Pied widgeon. (a) The poachard. (b) The goosander. — Saw-billed widgeon, the merganser. — Sea widgeon. See in the Vocabulary. — Spear widgeon, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.] — Spoonbilled widgeon, the shoveler. — White widgeon, the smew. — Wood widgeon, the wood duck.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.