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Grouse

noun

(pl. grouse)

Flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil.

Popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet.

verb

Hunt grouse.

Complain. Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk.

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"Grouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... fortunately, can't stay," she added, lowering her voice; "he has to be driven back to the station to catch the last express. And it is August," she said with a laugh; "you forget the 15th. Now, could Phil be anywhere but where there is grouse? You shall have some to dinner to-night that fell by his gun. That should mollify you, for I am sure you never got grouse at the cottage before in August. Mamma would as soon think of buying ...

— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant

... for a game at romps with the Newfoundland dog. While the blood-hound, hearing the voice of one of the children, to whom she has taken a particular fancy, walks off to the nursery. The setter lies dozing and dreaming of grouse; while the little terrier sits with ears pricked up, listening to any sounds of dog or man that she may hear; occasionally she trots off on three legs to look at the back door of the house, for fear any rat-hunt, or fun of that sort may take place without her being invited. Why ...

— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee

... that they couldn't grow if the birds didn't eat the insects that would devour their foliage. All day long, the little beaks of the birds are busy. The dear little rose-breasted gross-beak carefully examines the potato plants, and picks off the beetles, the martins destroy weevil, the quail and grouse family eats the chinchbug, the woodpeckers dig the worms from the trees, and many other birds eat the flies and gnats and mosquitoes that torment us so. No flying or crawling creature escapes their sharp little eyes. A great Frenchman says that ...

— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders

... was of a practical turn of mind, "it's starting in pretty well. We've got some whitefish left that we caught at Lake Waubamun, and the grouse which we killed this afternoon will make up a good supper. I s'pose if we were the first to cross over we might have got antelope in here, ...

— The Young Alaskans in the Rockies • Emerson Hough

... bear, went up the river into the dense and almost impenetrable thickets, where the gigantic forest had been swept low by the hurricane. The other two followed down the stream in search of turkeys, grouse, and such ...

— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott

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