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crow's-foot
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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crow's-foot
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n.
(pl. -feet)
1.
(usu. crow's-feet)
a branching wrinkle at the outer corner of a person's eye.
2.
a mark, symbol, or design formed of lines diverging from a point, resembling a bird's footprint.
3.
hist.
a caltrop.
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Crowfoot honored by Calgary police
Magazine article from: Alberta Sweetgrass; 10/31/1996; ; 694 words
; Crowfoot honored by Calgary police CALGARY...brass in formal black dress hosted the Crowfoot family and their friends at the naming...new police learning centre. The Chief Crowfoot Learning Centre was officially unveiled...
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Determined leader, difficult times. (Footprints).(Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfoot people)
Newspaper article from: Windspeaker; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...would shorten his name. They called him Crowfoot. The boy, who would one day become...It was a few years after the death of Crowfoot's father that a group of strangers...from a successful raid on the Crows. Crowfoot's grandfather, Scabby Bull, invited...
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Whole phenomenon of the `New Canada' may be about to go on trial in Crowfoot.
Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine; 7/3/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...take place in the central Alberta riding of Crowfoot. What will be at issue in Crowfoot is not simply the confrontation of the Canadian...Canada been progressing or disintegrating? In Crowfoot, that may well become the issue. We can blame...
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The whole phenomenon of the 'New Canada' may be about to go on trial in Crowfoot.
Magazine article from: Alberta Report; 7/3/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...take place in the central Alberta riding of Crowfoot. What will be at issue in Crowfoot is not simply the confrontation of the Canadian...Canada been progressing or disintegrating? In Crowfoot, that may well become the issue. We can blame...
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Elbert F. Crowfoot
Newspaper article from: Courier News (Elgin, IL); 3/29/2006; 345 words
; Elbert F. Crowfoot, 97, of Woodstock, Illinois, formerly...was the son of Albert and Luela Graves Crowfoot. He had been a resident of Elgin most...Survived by one daughter, Susan J. Crowfoot of Jacksonville, IL; one son, James...
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Wisconsin Department of Transportation pries crowfoots from freeway bed
Newspaper article from: Daily Reporter (Milwaukee); 5/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...It costs less to save the tiny seaside crowfoots growing along Interstate 94 than to figure...actually an endangered Wisconsin plant. The crowfoots, ranunculus cymbalaria, could be an...Parker and a teammate will move the crowfoots growing near the County Trunk Highway...
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Crowfoot looks forward to another 25 years in publication.(NATIONAL NEWS)(Bert Crowfoot)
Newspaper article from: Saskatechewan Sage; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...expanding radio broadcast audience. Bert Crowfoot has been there since AMMSA's first...produced our first issue in a week," said Crowfoot, publisher and chief executive officer...within a couple of years as well," said Crowfoot, noting that with the urbanization of...
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Crowfoot looks forward to another 25 years in publication
Magazine article from: Saskatchewan Sage; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...expanding radio broadcast audience. Bert Crowfoot has been there since AMMSA's first...produced our first issue in a week," said Crowfoot, publisher and chief executive officer...within a couple of years as well," said Crowfoot, noting that with the urbanization of...
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Ramsay's trial moves to Crowfoot.
Magazine article from: Alberta Report; 7/3/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...association in his federal riding of Crowfoot, a sprawling oil- and cattle-rich...resolved, probably in July, and the Crowfoot riding executive doesn't want to nominate...sex criminal. It might not cost the CA Crowfoot, which Ramsay won with a whopping 70...
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Crowfoot: Footpath.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!; 6/22/2009; ; 645 words
; CROWFOOT Footpath Lunar Canoe 0801 There has been...and songs in a very intimate manner. Crowfoot is a very talented trio of musicians who...traditional song, is next. The simple Crowfoot arrangement features lovely vocals by...
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin For her work with vitamin B-12, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin employed the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the molecular...
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crowfoot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
crowfoot name for plants with the leaf or some other part resembling the foot of a crow, particularly the buttercup .
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Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910–1994) British chemist; Nobel Prize 1964 for her work on determination of biological structures by X‐ray crystallography.
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin 1910-94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for...
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Buttercup
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Buttercup Buttercups and crowfoots are about 275 species of plants...forests. The yellow water-crowfoot ( R. gmelini ) is a widespread...repens ), and the corn crowfoot or hunger-weed ( R. arvensis...buttercups, such as the water crowfoot ( R. aquatilis ), are sometimes...
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