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geese [gis]

n. 鹅, 鹅肉, 呆头鹅, 傻瓜

I see a flight of geese head south for the winter.
我看到一群大雁南飞过冬去了。
Domestic fowls, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.
家禽用作蛋品或肉类的家养禽类，如小鸡、火鸡、鸭或鹅
All his geese are swans.
他的都鹅是天鹅。/他老是言过其实。

Geese \Geese\ (g[=e]s), n.,
pl. of {Goose}.

Goose \Goose\ (g[=oo]s), n.; pl. {Geese} (g[=e]s). [OE. gos, AS.
g[=o]s, pl. g[=e]s; akin to D. & G. gans, Icel. g[=a]s, Dan.
gaas, Sw. g[*a]s, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for
hanser, Gr. chh`n, Skr. ha[.m]sa. [root]233. Cf. {Gander},
{Gannet}, {Ganza}, {Gosling}.] (Zo["o]l.)
1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily {Anserin[ae]},
and belonging to {Anser}, {Branta}, {Chen}, and several
allied genera. See {Anseres}.

Note: The common domestic goose is believed to have been
derived from the European graylag goose ({Anser
anser}). The bean goose ({A. segetum}), the American
wild or Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis}), and the
bernicle goose ({Branta leucopsis}) are well known
species. The American white or snow geese and the blue
goose belong to the genus {Chen}. See {Bernicle},
{Emperor goose}, under {Emperor}, {Snow goose}, {Wild
goose}, {Brant}.

2. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the
common goose.

Note: The Egyptian or fox goose ({Alopochen [AE]gyptiaca})
and the African spur-winged geese ({Plectropterus})
belong to the family {Plectropterid[ae]}. The
Australian semipalmated goose ({Anseranas semipalmata})
and Cape Barren goose ({Cereopsis
Nov[ae]-Hollandi[ae]}) are very different from northern
geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family.
Both are domesticated in Australia.

3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle,
which resembles the neck of a goose.

4. A silly creature; a simpleton.

5. A game played with counters on a board divided into
compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
--Goldsmith.

{A wild goose chase}, an attempt to accomplish something
impossible or unlikely of attainment.

{Fen goose}. See under {Fen}.

{Goose barnacle} (Zo["o]l.), any pedunculated barnacle of the
genus {Anatifa} or {Lepas}; -- called also {duck
barnacle}. See {Barnacle}, and {Cirripedia}.

{Goose cap}, a silly person. [Obs.] --Beau. & .

{Goose corn} (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush ({Juncus
squarrosus}).

{Goose feast}, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.]

{Goose grass}. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), a
favorite food of geese; -- called also {catchweed} and
{cleavers}.
(b) A species of knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}).
(c) The annual spear grass ({Poa annua}).

{Goose neck}, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved
like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook
connecting a spar with a mast.

{Goose quill}, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a
pen made from it.

{Goose skin}. See {Goose flesh}, above.

{Goose tongue} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
ptarmica}), growing wild in the British islands.

{Sea goose}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Phalarope}.

{Solan goose}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Gannet}.

Peter Worsley produces rustic furniture. "I employed 52 people in a two-story factory in Johannesburg," he said. "Then a customer brought me to the Crocodile River and I saw what I was missing _ geese charging around the garden, dogs playing.
Last year, when the geese returned in late spring, Heifetz began a new plan of attack.
It still sounds pretty rum to me, coming from a man who committed his life to, and built his international fame upon, a passion for geese. Peter Scott was a famous man for 40 years.
Last year, Mr. Buell ordered a pair of silk boxer shorts with geese and ducks for $40. With his willpower weakened, he then visited a Victoria's Secret store and bought $300 more worth of briefs.
The 23-acre campus is studiously pastoral, with its gaggles of geese and its little walking bridges and man-made islands.
Scott said he founded his wildfowl trust in 1946 as a haven for migrating geese and other water birds after shooting a goose and seeing it slowly die.
The problem became so acute last week that Dana Owen and other officers mounted horses around noon every day to herd the geese back across the street.
George Haas, migratory bird specialist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Boston office, said geese can be found along the coast from Maine to Florida, but the highest concentrations are from Maryland northward.
Another, called "Market Place," shows a Bruegelesque clutter of shifty merchants and lecherous traders eyeing women who sell rabbits and geese.
Most of them have already done it more than once. You conclude: 'Whatever Mr Clarke does, the geese will hiss.
Besides, the transfer "doesn't hurt the geese."
He said the out-of-town hunter and a companion were hunting for geese and ducks Tuesday in Spalding Cove, state-owned marshland south of the wildlife refuge, which lies about 45 miles northeast of Corpus Christ along the Texas coast.
The Canadian government said it opposes development of the plain, mainly because animals such as caribou, snow geese and polar bears that migrate between the Alaskan refuge and Canada are important for the "subsistence life style of native Canadians."
The death toll: 168, more than four times Louisiana's legal limit of five geese per hunter per day.
During the past two years scientists have collared about about 500, or one-fourth, of the estimated 2,000 non-migratory Canada geese living near the government nuclear complex, Blaylock said.
Fred Ferino, the state's principal wildlife biologist, says New Jersey's resident geese population has more than quadrupled in the past decade.
The boat has been in action since last spring, buzzing around a pond at Bytex Corp. in Southborough to scare off geese, said owner and self-styled "goosebuster" Norman Heifetz.
"If you wanted to make a place for geese, you could not do better than that," said Harry Lumsden, who worked for 40 years for Canada's Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario and now is a private consultant.
Still, the geese remained.
When he inquired at the Philadelphia Zoo last week about calling birds and geese, he was offered several choices.
"We're a small town with some fairly large problems," said editor Mark Zuckerman. "We have some big decisions that have to be made." Reporters still write stories about matters such as the geese camping out at the town's only gas station.
Long may Park As Ripley, the club chairman, said in his speech at the centenary dinner: 'Rock on chaps, rock on.' IT IS a rare pleasure in Britain now to see the traffic stop to let a file of geese cross the road.
In one yard, Owen said, "It was just black with geese.

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