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    poor-will
CIDE DICTIONARY
poor-will, n. [So called in imitation of its note.]. 
                                            
                                         A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli ) allied to the whip-poor-will.                                                                                 [1913 Webster]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    
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