Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EM'BER-GOOSE
EM'BER-GOOSE, n.
A fowl of the genus Colymbus and order of ansers. It is larger than the common goose; the head is dusky; the back, coverts of the wings and tail, clouded with lighter and darker shades of the same; the primaries and tail are black; the breast and belly silvery. It inhabits the northern regions, about Iceland and the Orkneys. Encyc.
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