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Webster's English Dictionary

pigeon

n. [F., fr. L. pipio a young pipping or chirping bird, fr. pipire to peep, chirp. Cf. Peep to chirp.]1. (Zol.) Any bird of the order Columb, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. ()

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2. An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. ()

Blue pigeon (Zol.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow. -- Green pigeon (Zol.), any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronid. -- Imperial pigeon (Zol.), any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada. -- Pigeon berry (Bot.), the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed. -- Pigeon English [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindustani. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds. -- Pigeon hawk. (Zol.) (a) A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox or Accipiter fuscus). -- Pigeon hole. (a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house. (b) See Pigeonhole. (c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches. Halliwell. -- Pigeon house, a dovecote. -- Pigeon pea (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself. -- Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (Chrysobalanus ellipticus and Chrysobalanus luteus). -- Pigeon tremex. (Zol.) See under Tremex. -- Pigeon wood (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba. -- Pigeon woodpecker (Zol.), the flicker. -- Prairie pigeon. (Zol.) (a) The upland plover. (b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.] ()

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v. t. To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. (Smart.)

He's pigeoned and undone. (Observer.)