What is "crow"

Crows \Crows\ (kr[=o]z), n. pl.; sing. Crow. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.

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. ]

1. (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.

2. 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.

3. The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.

4. 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).

Crow \Crow\ (kr[=o]), v. i. [imp. Crew (kr[udd]) or Crowed (kr[=o]d); p. p. Crowed ( Crown (kr[=o]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowing.] [AS. cr[=a]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[aum]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. Crake.]

1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. ``The cock had crown.''
   --Bayron.

   The morning cock crew loud.
   --Shak.

2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

3. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.

   The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses.
   --Tennyson.

   To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist.

   Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem.
   --Bp. Hall.

Indian tribe of the American Midwest, the name is a rough translation of their own name, Apsaruke.

Old English crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is perhaps based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, American English, but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). The image of a crow's foot for the wrinkles appearing with age at the corner of the eye is from late 14c. ("So longe mote ye lyve Til crowes feet be growen under youre ye." [Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, c.1385]). Phrase as the crow flies recorded from 1800.

Old English crawian "make a loud noise like a crow" (see crow (n.)); sense of "exult in triumph" is 1520s, perhaps in part because the English crow is a carrion-eater. Related: Crowed; crowing.

Etymology 1 n. 1 A bird, usually black, of the genus ''Corvus'', having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. 2 A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar. 3 The cry of the rooster. 4 A gangplank (corvus#Latin) used by the Roman navy to board enemy ships. 5 (context among butchers English) The mesentery of an animal. Etymology 2

vb. 1 To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in joy, gaiety, or defiance. 2 To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 3 To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. 4 (context music English) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

1. n. black birds having a raucous call

2. the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)

3. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

4. a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo [syn: Corvus]

5. an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: brag, bragging, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade]

6. a Siouan language spoken by the Crow people

1. v. dwell on with satisfaction [syn: gloat, triumph]

2. express pleasure verbally; "She crowed with joy"

3. utter shrill sounds; "The cocks crowed all morning"

A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus. The term "crow" is used both as part of the common name of many species, and collectively for all of Corvus.

Species with the word "crow" in their common name include:

• Corvus albus – pied crow (Central African coasts to southern Africa)
• Corvus bennetti – little crow (Australia)
• Corvus brachyrhynchos – American crow (United States, southern Canada, northern Mexico)
• Corvus capensis – Cape crow or Cape rook (Eastern and southern Africa)
• Corvus caurinus – northwestern crow (Olympic peninsula to southwest Alaska)
• Corvus cornix – hooded crow (Northern and Eastern Europe and Northern Africa)
• Corvus corone – carrion crow (Europe and eastern Asia)
• Corvus edithae – Somali crow (eastern Africa)
• Corvus enca – slender-billed crow (Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia)
• Corvus florensis – Flores crow (Flores Island)
• Corvus fuscicapillus – brown-headed crow (New Guinea)
• Corvus hawaiiensis (formerly C. tropicus) – Hawaiian crow (Hawaii)
• Corvus imparatus – Tamaulipas crow (Gulf of Mexico coast)
• Corvus insularis – Bismarck crow (Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea)
• Corvus jamaicensis – Jamaican crow (Jamaica)
• Corvus kubaryi – Mariana crow or aga (Guam, Rota)
• Corvus leucognaphalus – white-necked crow (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico)
• Corvus macrorhynchos – jungle crow (Eastern Asia, Himalayas, Philippines)
  • Corvus macrorhynchos macrorhynchos – large-billed crow
  • Corvus macrorhynchos levaillantii – eastern jungle crow (India, Burma)
  • Corvus macrorhynchos culminatus – Indian jungle crow
• Corvus meeki – Bougainville crow or Solomon Islands crow (Northern Solomon Islands)
• Corvus moneduloides – New Caledonian crow (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands)
• Corvus nasicus – Cuban crow (Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, Grand Caicos Island)
• Corvus orru – Torresian crow or Australian crow (Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands)
• Corvus ossifragus – fish crow (Southeastern U.S. coast)
• Corvus palmarum – palm crow (Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic)
• Corvus ruficolis edithae – Somali crow or dwarf raven (Northeast Africa)
• Corvus sinaloae –– Sinaloan crow (Pacific coast from Sonora to Colima
• Corvus splendens – house crow or Indian house crow (Indian subcontinent, Middle East, east Africa)
• Corvus torquatus – collared crow (Eastern China, south into Vietnam)
• Corvus tristis – grey crow or Bare-faced crow (New Guinea and neighboring islands)
• Corvus typicus – piping crow or Celebes pied crow (Sulawesi, Muna, Butung)
• Corvus unicolor – Banggai crow (Banggai Island)
• Corvus validus – long-billed crow (Northern Moluccas)
• Corvus violaceus – violet crow (Seram) – recent split from slender-billed crow
• Corvus woodfordi – white-billed crow or Solomon Islands crow (Southern Solomon Islands)

Crow was a Sioux chief who gave the opening battle cry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Crow was a Minneapolis-based blues rock band, that was first active from 1967 to 1972. They are best known for the song " Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games With Me)," which was notably covered by Black Sabbath.

Crows are birds of the genus Corvus, which includes jackdaws, ravens, and rooks.

Crow, The Crow or Crows may also refer to:

The Creative Research On Weapons or Crow program was an experimental missile project developed by the United States Navy's Naval Air Missile Test Center during the late 1950s. Intended to evaluate the solid-fueled integral rocket/ramjet (SFIRR) method of propulsion as well as solid-fueled ramjet engines, flight tests were conducted during the early 1960s with mixed success.

Crow are an Australian rock band that is best known for three albums released in the 90s. Founded by songwriters Peter Fenton and Peter Archer in Sydney in 1986, Crow ceased all activity in 1999, only to begin playing again in 2007. In 2009, they recorded an album of new material. Mixed by Jim Moginie ( Midnight Oil), the album was released in 2010.

In 1998, the respected Australian music magazine Juice labeled Crow as the 'best band in Australia since The Birthday Party'. With releases on Phantom, Half A Cow, RooArt and BMG, Crow's evocative and influential music is widely acknowledged as having left an indelible mark upon the Australian musical landscape. In 1993 they received an ARIA nomination for best record.

Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber and Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society journal in 2012, Neil Roberts, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, said:

Crow holds a uniquely important place in Hughes oeuvre. It heralds the ambitious second phase of his work, lasting roughly from the late sixties to the late seventies, when he turned from direct engagement with the natural world to unified mythical narratives and sequences. It was his most controversial work: a stylistic experiment which abandoned many of the attractive features of his earlier work, and an ideological challenge to both Christianity and humanism. Hughes wrote Crow, mostly between 1966 and 1969, after a barren period following the death of Sylvia Plath. He looked back on the years of work on Crow as a time of imaginative freedom and creative energy, which he felt that he never subsequently recovered. He described Crow as his masterpiece...

The book is a collection of poems about the character Crow, which borrows extensively from many world mythologies, notably trickster mythology and Christian mythology. A central core group of poems in the work can be seen as an attack on Christianity. The first Crow poems were written in response to a request by the American artist, Leonard Baskin, who had at the time produced several pen and ink drawings of crows.

It is quoted briefly in the liner notes of Paul Simon's song My Little Town, and in the epigraph of Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge.

The collection was also the key inspiration for the 2009 album The Unkindness of Crows by the American heavy metal band Eagle Twin.

The Crow is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Crow comic book series, originally created by American artist James O'Barr in 1989. The titular character is an undead vigilante brought back to life by a supernatural crow to avenge his murder and that of his fiancée. The character has subsequently appeared in several feature films, a television series, and spin-off novels and comics. In the various incarnations, films, and spin-offs, many people have taken on the Crow persona in order to avenge their own wrongful deaths. In 2011, IGN ranked the Crow 37th in the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes.

Crow or Crowe is a surname, and may refer to:

• Ashley Crow, American actress
• Charles A. Crow, a U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Bob Crow, British trade union leader
• Chief Crow, Sioux leader
• Dan Crow (musician), Emmy award-winning children's musician
• Dan Crow (computer scientist), computer scientist who was in charge of Google's web crawler development as of 2007
• Dan Crow, pseudonym for author Ernest Aris
• Danny Crow, professional football player
• Edward Coke Crow, American politician
• Enid Crow, artist
• Frank Fools Crow, Lakota Sioux spiritual leader
• Franklin C. Crow, American computer scientist and author
• George Crow, computer specialist
• James F. Crow, professor of Genetics
• Joe Medicine Crow, Crow tribe historian and author
• John Crow, Governor of the Bank of Canada
• John David Crow, professional American football player
• Kevin Crow, professional indoor soccer player
• L. C. Crow, American politician
• Max Crow, Australian rules footballer
• Michael Crow, journalist
• Rob Crow, (b. 1970), musician
• Scott Crow, community organizer
• Sheryl Crow, American singer/songwriter
• Stephen Crow, ZX Spectrum game programmer
• Thomas S. Crow, Master Chief Petty Officer of the US Navy
• Thomas E. Crow, American historian and art critic
• Tim Crow, British psychiatrist and researcher
• Trammell Crow, American property developer
• William E. Crow, American politician

Crow (23 February 1973–10 February 1989) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was one of the best three-year-olds in Europe in 1976 when he won the classic St Leger Stakes and finished second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He went on to win the Coronation Cup as a five-year-old in 1978. After his retirement from racing he stood as a breeding stallion in the United States and Australia with limited success.

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Crow is a trickster, culture hero and ancestral being. In the Kulin nation in central Victoria he was known as Waa (also Wahn or Waang) and was regarded as one of two moiety ancestors, the other being the more sombre eaglehawk Bunjil. Legends relating to Crow have been observed in various Aboriginal language groups and cultures across Australia.