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Webster 1913 Edition

(-ẽr)

Noun.

[From

Noun.

]

(Zool.)

One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.

[Written also

harier

Noun.

[From

One who harries.

(Zool.)

One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus

Circus

which fly low and harry small animals or birds, – as the European marsh harrier (

Circus aeruginosus

), and the hen harrier (

Circus cyaneus

Harrier hawk

(Zool.)

one of several species of American hawks of the genus

Micrastur

Noun.

[from hare.] A dog for hunting hares; a kind of hound with an acute sense of smelling.