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 Pip·it n.  Zool. Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidæ. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.
 Note: ☞ The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis); the tree pipit, or tree lark (Anthus trivialis); and the rock pipit, or sea lark (Anthus obscurus) are well-known European species.  The common American pipit, or brown lark, is Anthus Pensilvanicus. The Western species (Anthus Spraguei) is called the American skylark, on account of its musical powers.
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 Sea lark Zool. (a) The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (b) Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
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 Shore, n.  The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
 Michael Cassio,
 Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
 Is come shore.   --Shak.
    The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.   --Spenser.
 In shore, near the shore. --Marryat.
 On shore. See under On.
 Shore birds Zool., a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore.
 Shore crab Zool., any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California.
 Shore lark Zool., a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark.
 Shore plover Zool., a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.
 Shore teetan Zool., the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]