Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PIG'EON, n. [Fr. id.; It. piccione. This word seems to belong to the family of pick, peck, pie, pica.]

A gallinaceous fowl of the genus Columba, of several species, as the stock dove, the ring dove, the turtle dove, and the migratory or wild pigeon of America. The domestic pigeon breeds in a box, often attached to a building, called a dovecot or pigeon-house. The wild pigeon builds a nest on a tree in the forest.