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(1):

(n.) Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian.

(2):

(n.) A native of any of the islands near Queensland; - called also Kanaka.

(3):

(n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.