bustard (bustard)

[Formerly bistard; IMG:content-2795.png:[graphic][subsumed] The houbara, O. houbara, is a north African and Arabian species, occurring also in southern Europe, and the allied Indian species, O. mac queen i, has sometimes been taken in Europe. O. aurita and O. benga lens is are also Asiatic. The Australian species is O. australis. The rest are African. Only the first-named two belong to the restricted genus Otis; the remainder are sometimes allocated to a genus Eupodotis, sometimes split into six to nine different genera. See also cut under Eupodotis. 2. A name in Canada of the common wild crepitans, a of plover. goose, Bernicla can a dens is. A. Newton. Thick kneed bustard, a name of the thick-knee, Edicnemus busted1 (bus'ted), p. a. [ a busted miner. [Slang, U. S.] busted2 (bus'ted), a. [ Your bridges and your busted libraries. Tennyson . buster (bus'ter), n. [For burster , as bust1 for burst . Cf. Sc. bust , ME. busten , beat, of Scand. origin: Sw. bösta , beat, thump: see baste1 .] 1. Something of extraordinary size. 2. A roisterer.-3. A frolic; a spree.-4. A violent wind. [American slang in all senses.] bustiant, n. [Sc. also busti am ; origin obscure; cf. fustian .] A kind of cloth, said to be the same as fustian.