The gizzard is a muscular portion of the gut that can be found in earthworms and most birds. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
And if that is true of the "gizzard" it is likewise true of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
Mr. Pendyce's fight with his burning stable had stuck in the farmer's "gizzard" ever since. From Wordnik.com. [The Country House] Reference
In the Illinois River, they have caused fish such as gizzard shad and bigmouth buffalo to go hungry. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
This parasite may encyst in the wall of the gizzard. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Cardia: the gizzard; q.v.: also applied to the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
"Bless my gizzard, Tom, but this may mean a lot to us!". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
Boil neck, gizzard and wing tips together until tender. From Wordnik.com. [The New Dr. Price Cookbook] Reference
Save neck, wing tips, heart, gizzard and liver for soup. From Wordnik.com. [The New Dr. Price Cookbook] Reference
Cut open the gizzard, remove the stones, and cleanse well. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The gizzard-worm is the most dangerous of the parasites mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
He gets his knife back in the gizzard, and that wipes out one score. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
"Thou hast little need to trouble thy gizzard on that score," returned. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
The digestive tube consists of oesophagus, gizzard, or stomach, and intestines. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
The gizzard, heart, and liver constitute the giblets to be used in making gravy. From Wordnik.com. [School and Home Cooking] Reference
The stomach should not be required to perform the function of the gizzard of a fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
It is as if a thinker submitted himself to be rasped by the great gizzard of creation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
The passage leading from the mouth goes directly to the gizzard, something like the duck. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
Among the contents drawn from the chicken will be found the heart, the liver, and the gizzard. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
The gizzard and heart especially require long, slow cooking to make them tender enough to be eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
As Van der Hoeven has pointed out, however, the gizzard lies to the right and the ovary to the left. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Very often the giblets, that is, the liver, heart, and gizzard of chicken, are used in making gravy. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
Remove the organs carefully, -- the intestines, gizzard, heart, and liver should all be removed together. From Wordnik.com. [School and Home Cooking] Reference
Parboil the liver, gizzard, and heart, cut them into pieces and add them to the chicken in the frying pan. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
Don't buy quails, they are all gizzard and feathers; and don't buy halibut, till you have inquired the price. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
It's a date as will stick in old England's gizzard, and in the Czar of Rooshia's gizzard, and in the gizzard of. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Masticatory: formed for chewing or grinding; applied to the mouth parts and to the grinding structures in the gizzard. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
For the gravy: Make a little broth with veal bone, a small piece of beef, a pig's foot, neck, feet and gizzard of chicken. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
= The play on words here is not clear; "guiserd" may be a variant of "gizzard," in which case it would mean the Duke's throat. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
"Then tek a shillin 'and get a drop o' good stuff wi 'it, an' warm up that old gizzard o 'thine wi' thinkin 'o' thy younger days.". From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Next, remove the gizzard, which consists of a fleshy part surrounding a sack containing partly digested food eaten by the chicken. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
In each gizzard of those we have yet opened, there have been two small pebbles, of unequal size; and the gizzard is very rough within. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
These pass into the gizzard, or pyloric division of the bird's stomach, where they are utilized, the same as we utilize our buhrstones. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
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