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Definition of Shinned
1. shin [v] - See also: shin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinned
Literary usage of Shinned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners by Florence Merriam Bailey (1898)
"Unlike the Goshawk, the Sharp-shinned is one of our commonest birds of prey. ...
The one redeeming quality of the Sharp- shinned is its fondness for House ..."
2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1882)
"[By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] In 1827, Vigors
described a small sharp-shinned hawk taken near Havana, Cuba, by MacLeay, ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"SHARP-shinned OR SLATE-COLOURED HAWK. A STUR FUSCUS, Gmel. PLATE XXV.—MALE AND
FEMALE. It is mentioned in the Fauna Boreali-Americana, that a specimen of ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... CONDUCT OF A SHARP-shinned HAWK. — On the 6th of April, while wandering along the
... shinned ..."
5. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"... SHARP-shinned HAWK A Species to be Destroyed does levy a heavy tax on our
upland game birds. As to the butcher bird, we feel that we ought to kill him, ..."
6. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipiter velox. PLATE 66. ... The Sharp-shinned is one of
the most destructive of our common Hawks and shares, with the next species, ..."
7. A Pioneer Outline History of Northwestern Pennsylvania by William James McKnight (1905)
"Sharp-shinned hawk Pigeons do not drink like any other bird. They drink like the
ox or cow, and they nourish the young pigeon for the first week of his life ..."
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