0 a bird that lives by water and has webbed feet (= feet with skin between the toes), a short neck, and a large beak: --
1 a friendly way of talking to someone you like: --
[ as form of address ] Come and sit beside me, duck.
2 to move your head or the top part of your body quickly down, especially to avoid being hit: --
3 a bird that lives by water and has short legs with webbed feet (= feet with toes joined by skin), or the meat of this bird --
4 to move your head or the top part of your body quickly down, esp. to avoid being hit: --
Afterfiveminutes, he went off with the ducks.
We watched the ducks today.
They were like ducks listening to thunder.
Yes, did you see many ducks there?
Intestinal helminths of lesser scaup ducks : an interactive community.
Our primary independent variables are two dummies-for lame ducks of the president's party and lame ducks of the other party, respectively.
In short, we find no evidence that lame ducks shirked toward the president, viewed narrowly as the agent of his party.
The prepatent period was similar in both chicks and ducks and varied between 9 and 14 (11.6 1.3) days.