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A bird, probably a fabulous bird. It is represented as a bird of happy omen, and as never alighting upon the ground. It eats of its own flesh when hungry, and the mortal head which it overshadows in its flight will infallibly, in time, wear a crown. It corresponds with, and is in dictionaries set down as, Phœnix, griffin, bird of paradise &c. 2 A plume of bird's feathers as an ornament for the head of a horse: also a तुरा or topknot of hair.
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