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    Urged or sas, birds instinct with life.The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, butconvoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton.A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.

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      1. An inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli: the spawning instinct in salmon; altruistic instincts in social animals.
      2. A powerful motivation or impulse.
      3. An innate capability or aptitude: an instinct for tact and diplomacy.
      4. Deeply filled or imbued: words instinct with love.
      5. Obsolete. Impelled from within.
        instinct
        • Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
        • An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instructions. --Paley.
        • An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. --Whately.
        An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. --Sir W. Hamilton.
        • By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. --Shak.
        • The natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
        • The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. --Darwin.
        • A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
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        Aside from the well written definition above, it is also the males instinct to quickly cover ones gonads if in danger.

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          An innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour in animals in response to certain stimuli.

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            One of three Pokemon Go teams, up until now (08/10/2016) it has been the underdog and least popular, after [Team Mystic] and [Team Valor]. [Team Instincts] color is yellow.

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