To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve.
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
To waste away; to fade, to wither.
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.