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MOOSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called 'elk' in Europe and 'moose' in North America
Synonyms:
Alces alces; elk; moose
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("moose" is a kind of...):
cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)
Holonyms ("moose" is a member of...):
Alces; genus Alces (elk or moose)
Context examples:
"The white man sees all things, and thinks greatly, and is very wise. But the white man of one day is not the white man of next day, and there is no understanding him. He does not do things always in the same way. And what way his next way is to be, one cannot know. Always does the Indian do the one thing in the one way. Always does the moose come down from the high mountains when the winter is here. Always does the salmon come in the spring when the ice has gone out of the river. Always does everything do all things in the same way, and the Indian knows and understands. But the white man does not do all things in the same way, and the Indian does not know nor understand.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Each fall, when the Yeehats follow the movement of the moose, there is a certain valley which they never enter.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"I wisht they'd spring up a bunch of moose or something, an' go away an' leave us alone," Bill said.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"I ought to know. I shot it out of the pack in a moose pasture over 'on Little Stick. An' Ol' Villan cried like a baby. Hadn't seen it for three years, he said. Ben with the wolves all that time."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Hunting their living meat, as the Yeehats were hunting it, on the flanks of the migrating moose, the wolf pack had at last crossed over from the land of streams and timber and invaded Buck’s valley.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Now, had not the moose come down to drink, had not Mit-sah been steering out of the course because of the snow, had not Kloo-kooch sighted the moose, and had not Grey Beaver killed it with a lucky shot from his rifle, all subsequent things would have happened differently.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At such times Buck did not attempt to stay him, but loped easily at his heels, satisfied with the way the game was played, lying down when the moose stood still, attacking him fiercely when he strove to eat or drink.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Then they came upon moose.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Trotting along in his silent way to investigate a new tepee which had been erected on the edge of the village while he was away with the hunters after moose, he came full upon Kiche.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
