Vulture
['vʌltʃə] or ['vʌltʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion.
Checked by Dora--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Edited by Lancelot
Definition
n. a large rapacious bird of prey feeding largely on carrion: one who or that which resembles a vulture.—adjs. Vul′tūrine Vul′tūrish Vul′tūrous like the vulture: rapacious.—ns. Vul′turism rapacity; Vul′turn the Australian brush-turkey.
Edited by Everett
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of vultures, signifies that some scheming person is bent on injuring you, and will not succeed unless you see the vulture wounded, or dead. For a woman to dream of a vulture, signifies that she will be overwhelmed with slander and gossip.
Editor: Noreen
Examples
- Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- George and Vulture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She's a perfect vulture, you know; and she hasn't the least moral sense. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Call Mr. Pickwick's servant, Tom,' said the barmaid of the George and Vulture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When the fever of my young life is spent; when placid age shall tame the vulture that devours me, friendship may come, love and hope being dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Solitude would be no solitude--rest no rest--while the vulture, hunger, thus sank beak and talons in my side. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The George and Vulture, at present,' replied that gentleman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And yet they hang about my uncle like vultures, and are afraid of a farthing going away from their side of the family. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The first I marry, within the hour; the other shall dry her tears or feed the vultures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They're like vultures after a battle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Ludwig