a. [f. VULTURE sb. + -ISH.] Somewhat vulture-like.
1826. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1850), 435. That the majority of the flock thought it essentially vulturish to exclude one third of their numbers from the blood and entrails.
1841. [see HAWKISH a.].
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., II. xvii. Valiant Wisdom … escorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owlish and vulturish and many other forms of Folly.
