Buzzard
['bʌzəd]
Definition
(noun.) the common European short-winged hawk.
(noun.) a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States.
Checked by Jo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
(n.) A blockhead; a dunce.
(a.) Senseless; stupid.
Typed by Carlyle
Definition
n. a bird of prey of the falcon family: a blockhead: a name for some night moths and cockchafers.—n. Buzz′ard-clock a cockchafer the dor.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal will arise and work you injury by your connection with it. To see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss is about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach, foretells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous disagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself. To see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip or that unusual scandal will disturb you.
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- When the buzzard was put away--he burSt. We will except the buzzard then. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Because there was a stuffed buzzard, Mr. Jennings, in the hall last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If an animal die on the plain the polyborus has prerogative of feeding first, and is followed by the turkey buzzard and the gallinazo. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Langley had adopted wings that slanted upward from the point at which they joined, copying the wings of a soaring buzzard. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I hastened to sanction the presence of the embroidery, exactly as I had sanctioned the absence of the burst buzzard and the Cupid's wing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When the family left, the buzzard was put away with the other things. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A burst buzzard alone excepted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Study taught them that birds are really aeroplanes, and that buzzards and hawks and gulls stay in the air by balancing on or sliding down rising currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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