Dictionary: VUL'TUR, or VUL'TURE – VY'ING

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VUL'TUR, or VUL'TURE, n. [L. vultur.]

The first of these words is the natural history name of a genus of Accipitrine fowls, and the second its English proper name. Vultures have a large and strong beak –, the nostrils pierced transversely to its base; the head and neck without feathers, or caruncles, and a collar of long feathers, or of down, at the root of the neck. Proper vultures have hitherto been found only on the eastern continent . – Cuvier.

VUL'TU-RINE, a. [L. vulturinus.]

Belonging to the vultur; having the qualities of the vultur; resembling the vultur; rapacious.

VUL'TUR-ISH, a.

Like a vultur.

VUL'TUR-OUS, a.

Like a vultur; rapacious.

VY'ING, ppr.

Competing; emulating.