The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crow \Crow\, n. [AS. cr[=a]we a crow (in sense 1); akin to D. kraai, G. kr[aum]he; cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow. So named from its cry, from AS. cr[=a]wan to crow. See Crow, v. i. ]
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(Zo["o]l.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
Note: The common crow of Europe, or carrion crow, is Corvus corone. The common American crow is Corvus Americanus. See Carrion crow, and Illustr., under Carrion.
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A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell.
--Shak. The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
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The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Carrion crow. See under Carrion.
Crow blackbird (Zo["o]l.), an American bird ( Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle.
Crow pheasant (Zo["o]l.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal.
Crow shrike (Zo["o]l.), any bird of the genera Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Australia.
Red-legged crow. See Crough.
As the crow flies, in a direct line.
To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).
Wiktionary
adv. (context idiomatic English) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.
WordNet
adv. by the shortest and most direct route; "it's 10 miles as the crow flies"
Wikipedia
As the crow flies is an idiom for the shortest distance between two points.
As the Crow Flies may also refer to:
- As the Crow Flies (album), by The Advisory Circle
- "As the Crow Flies" (comics), a Batman story arc
- As the Crow Flies (novel), by Jeffrey Archer
- As the Crow Flies (play), by David Henry Hwang
- As the Crow Flies, a children's book by Elizabeth Winthrop
As the Crow Flies is a novel by Jeffrey Archer. The novel was originally published in hardback by HarperCollins in May 1991. HarperCollins and Random House both published paperback version of this book in 1992.
As the Crow Flies is a 1986 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. The play depicts an African-American maid living in a Chinese home in Los Angeles and her double life. The play premiered at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on February 16, 1986 on a double bill with Hwang's The Sound of a Voice. It was directed by Reza Abdoh and featured Nobu McCarthy in the cast.
It is published as part of Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays by Theatre Communications Group.
"As the Crow Flies" is a comic book story arc that ran through the Batman monthly series. It was written by Judd Winick, penciled by Dustin Nguyen and inked by Richard Friend. It was published in episodes 626 - 630 of the series, and printed in its entirety in a single comic book recompilation in 2004. It was developed as a single self-contained storyline instead of being part of a larger saga, aiming mainly to casual or lapsed readers instead of collectors.
As The Crow Flies is the third album by Jon Brooks, under the pseudonym of The Advisory Circle. It was preceded by the album Other Channels. The album was released on 8 July 2011 on the Ghost Box Music label. The CD sleeve notes and bonus digital booklet contains an introduction by professor Ronald Hutton, as well as a paragraph quoted from his book, The Stations of the Sun.
Usage examples of "as the crow flies".
We won't be able to get there as the crow flies, but eventually we'll be able to reach Nevermore Tree.
That journey north took the best part of a month, for it's all of five hundred miles to Laramie, even as Carson rode-which was almost as straight as the crow flies-up through the Sangre de Cristo by Pike's peak and the South Park, over the high plains to Fort St Vrain, and through the Wyoming Black Hills to Laramie on the North Platte.
A preliminary trial had determined that during the dark of the moon, the biggest lanterns' light could be seen from the top of Afrasiab Hill to the Shamiana Ridge, across the river valley, about ten li as the crow flies.
Green estimated he must have gone at least a mile and a half, not as the crow flies, but more like a drunk trying to find his way home.
He was more than half a mile, as the crow flies, away from the upper rim of the ravine, but descending was out of the question at this point.
How could there be, when the distance covered by the Mayas from the territory of the old to the borders of the new kingdom measures only 220 miles as the crow flies—.
A fast coach went to Geneva, which is some seventy-five miles away as the crow flies, though considerably farther as the horse gallops.