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Definition of Pewees
1. pewee [n] - See also: pewee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pewees
Literary usage of Pewees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Find two wood pewees' nests, made like the one I have. One on a dead horizontal
limb of a small oak, fourteen feet from ground, ..."
2. First Lessons in Geology by Alpheus Spring Packard (1881)
"... 2000 species of spiders, dragon flies, grasshoppers, bugs, beetles, flies,
butterflies and ants; and also a bird, allied to our cedar bird and pewees. ..."
3. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1883)
"Out of nine pewees' nests, which were visited in the spring of 1878, ... Mr.
CN Pennock informs me that three out of five pewees' nests visited by him ..."
4. Transactions of the International Medical Congress of Philadelphia. 1876 by John Ashhurst (1877)
"pewees himself had some years before, 1807, published an abridgment of Heath's
... The name of William Potts pewees should live forever in the memory of the ..."
5. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"For weeks afterwards, however, I saw pewees arriving from the north, and lingering
a short ... I found several pewees nests at some distance up the creek, ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"... the olive-sided fly-catchers, the wood pewees, and the Traill's fly-catchers,
which inhabit much the same places as do the wood pewees, preferring, ..."
7. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1871)
"A pair of pewees have built immemorially on a jutting brick in the arched entrance
to the ice-house. Always on the same brick, and never more than a single ..."
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