chough : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chough	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for chough
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chough n a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chough \Chough\, n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ce[a2]; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. ch[be]ha; perh. akin to E. caw. [fb]22. Cf. {Caddow}.] (Zo[94]l.) A bird of the Crow family ({Fregilus graculus}) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called {chauk}, {chauk-daw}, {chocard}, {Cornish chough}, {red-legged crow}. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the {Alpine chough}. {Cornish chough} (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also {aylet} and {sea swallow}.