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Puffin
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.
2. The puffball.
3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] Rider's Dict. (1640).