Utamania (utamania)

[NL. (Leach, 1816), also Utumania.] A genus of Alcidæ, whose type is the razor-billed auk, Alca or Uta mania torda, chiefly differing from Alca proper in having the wings sufficiently developed for • flight. See cut under razorbill. utast, utist (ūtas, ū'tis), n. [Also uta , utast; Quod Gawein,. "let vs sette the day of spousaile;" and than toke the i day to-geder the vtas after, and com thus spekynge in to the halle. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 449. Utas of a feest, octaves. Palsgrave. Hence-2. Bustle; stir; unrestrained jollity or festivity, as during the octave of a festival. By the ma , here will be old Utis ; it will be an excellent stratagem. Shak . , 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 22.