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See Buzz. [Obs.]

gs. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears. Shak.

to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer. And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death. Shak.

In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.

A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.

In a buzz; buzzing. [Colloq.] Dickens.

erstand; to recognize; to consider. This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

e hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasit…

To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To hum; to buzz. [R.]

A humming or buzzing.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.

A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]…

Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.

Idle talk; silly prattle. There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon. Thackeray.

the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

urying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara. -- Carrion crow, the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, i…