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Definition of Loons
1. loon [n] - See also: loon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loons
Literary usage of Loons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"NOTES ON loons. JH HICKS. As I have 5 loons to my credit I will tell a few of my
... All 5 loons were killed during the same summer, with the same rifle, ..."
2. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"loons. THE loons. loons live almost habitually in the water ; they dive with
wonderful rapidity and skill, and are also remarkable for their ability of ..."
3. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"loons. Family GAVIIDAE. loons may be likened to gigantic Grebes from which ...
loons are strong fliers, but like the Grebes, because of their small wings ..."
4. The Algonquin Legends of New England: Or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac by Charles Godfrey Leland (1884)
"And it came to pass that when he was in Newfoundland he came to an Indian town,
and they who dwelt therein were all Kwee-moo-uk, or loons. And they, as men, ..."
5. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"loons, like Grebes, have a peculiar faculty of sinking gradually in the water
... If loons are able to inflate or deflate these and other air cells at any ..."
6. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Family GAVIIDAE loons may be likened to gigantic Grebes from which they ...
loons are strong fliers, but like the Grebes, because of their small wings they ..."
7. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"E. loons. A family containing only five species, inhabiting the northern half of the
... The loons are scarcely less aquatic than the Grebes, and are their ..."
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