noun. Any of various North American vultures, such as the turkey vulture.

noun. A hawk of the genus Buteo, having broad wings and a broad tail.

noun. An avaricious or otherwise unpleasant person.

noun. In ornithology: Any hawk of the genus Buteo or subfamily Buteoninæ. (See these words.)

noun. Some other hawk, not used in falconry, with a qualifying term to indicate the species: as, the moor-buzzard, Circus æruginosus, of Europe; the honey-buzzard, Pernis apivorus; the bald buzzard, the osprey, Pandion haliaëtus. An American vulture of the family Cathartidæ; the turkey-buzzard, Cathartes aura. See cut under Cathartes.

noun. A blockhead; a dunce.

noun. A coward.

noun. A hawk that flies by night.

noun. Compare buzzard-moth.

Senseless; stupid.

adjective. Senseless; stupid.

noun. A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.

noun. In the United States, a term used for the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), and sometimes indiscriminately to any vulture.

noun. the fishhawk or osprey. See Fishhawk.

noun. A blockhead; a dunce.

noun. Any of several Old-World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.

noun. In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture, also called American black buzzard (Coragyps atratus), and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).

noun. a curmudgeonly or cantankerous old man.

noun. a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States

noun. the common European short-winged hawk

"I'll take the turkey, and let you have the buzzard; or, _you can take the buzzard_, and I'll keep the turkey. '"

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