[ Native name; -- so called from its cry. ] (Zool.) A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Obs. ] See Usher. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To usher. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]