34 Verbs to Use for the Word antler

Raising his eyes from their fixed position, he saw the antlers of a buck rearing themselves over a thicket of brush, and next moment a noble deer bounded to the bank to drink.

Their successors seem to have borne simple forked antlers or horns, probably covered with hair, and permanently fixed on the skull.

Many of the bulls had shed their antlers; many had not.

The buck was black and of enormous size; he had a white beard and carried sixteen antlers.

Vertyfor this is Verty the son, or adopted son of the old Indian woman, living in the pine hills to the westVerty carries in one hand a strange weapon, nothing less than a long cedar bow, and a sheaf of arrows; in the other, which also holds his rein, the antlers of a stag, huge and branching in all directions; around him circle two noble deer-hounds.

If the skull is split an almost imperceptible paring of the skull bones at the joint would suffice to drop the antlers either laterally out of their proper plane, or else pitch the main beam backward.

I knew that it was a good head, but hardly expected such large and massive antlers.

Verty made no reply to this latter observation, but busied himself fixing up the antlers in the passage.

A favorite device is to take a green head, force the antlers apart with a board and a wedge every few days during the winter.

The other sub-genera are Blastoceros, with branched antlers and no metatarsal gland; Xenelaphus, smaller in size, with small, simply forked antlers and no metatarsal gland; Mazama, containing the so-called brockets, very small, with minute spike antlers, lacking the metatarsal and sometimes the tarsal gland as well.

"At home," says Verty, with his bright, but dreamy smile; "I've got the antlers for the Squire, at last.

Their presence makes certain cells develop in excessive numbers at a particular spot in the organism (as in the growth of breasts from a few sweat glands) or causes them to specialize (to make hair on the face in man, or to grow antlers on the head of a stag).

The marsh-deer, which has diverged much further from the northern type than this bush deer (its horns show a likeness to those of a blacktail), often keeps its antlers until June or July, although it begins to grow them again in August; however, too much stress must not be laid on this fact, inasmuch as the wapiti and the cow caribou both keep their antlers until spring.

He had his knife ready, and the rowers too had a rope ready to lasso the stags' antlers when they caught up with him.

You see he's blind o' one 'ee, and he's lost one o' his antlers, and he's a wee bit lame, and all the folk here about treat him kindly, when ye thought to put that bit o' lead into him just noo, sure he was just oomin' to ye for a bit o' oatmeal cake.

Of a sudden, with a snort of rage, he lowered his sharp pronged antlers and charged at Horace.

They nodded antlers and continued on their separate paths to polished doors.

In front of the cabin itself was a "rockery" of pink quartz, on which were piled elk antlers.

He also presented me a fine antler of the Caribo, or American reindeer, a species which is found to inhabit this region.

As the boys talked over their adventure on the long journey back toward the Post, Wabi thought with regret of the moose head which he had left buried in the "Indian ice-box," and even wished, for a moment, to go home by the northern trail, despite the danger from the hostile Woongas, in order to recover the valuable antlers.

1. S. cervicornis, n. sp. Veins or channels in the oral operculum, branching so as to resemble the antlers of a stag.

We found elk tracks everywhere and some fresh sign, where the grass had been turned recently, and also much old and fresh sign where the elk had skinned the saplings by rubbing their antlers to get rid of the velvet.

From this, by-and-by, rising from the head, shoot forth the antlers from each side; and, in a short time, in proportion as the animal is in condition, the entire horns are completed.

The round-horned elk, with spreading, massive antlers, the lordliest of the deer tribe throughout the world, abounded, and like the buffalo travelled in bands not only through the woods but also across the reaches of waving grass land.

They rushed at each other with tremendous force, struck their antlers dashingly together, so that their points were entangled; and tried to force each other backward.

34 Verbs to Use for the Word  antler