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noun

Harrier n. (Written also harier) (Zool.) One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.

Harrier n.

One who harries.

(Zool.) One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, as the European marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus), and the hen harrier (Circus cyaneus).

Harrier hawk (Zool.), one of several species of American hawks of the genus Micrastur.

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"Harrier" Quotes from Famous Books

... dear! the polished pools lie still, Like lanes of water reddened by the west, Till, swooping down from yon o'erhanging hill, The bold marsh harrier wets her tawny breast; We scared her oft in childhood from her prey, And the old eager thoughts rise fresh ...

— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow

... Havelock next had the privilege of enjoying the paradisaic sojourn at Queen's House, St. Ann's, as well as the four thousand pounds a year attached to the [71] right of occupying that princely residence. Save as a dandy, however, and the harrier of subordinate officials, the writer of the annals of Trinidad may well pass him by. So then it may be seen what, by mere freaks of Chance—the ruling deity at Downing Street—the administrative experience of Trinidad had been from the departure of that true king ...

— West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas • J. J. (John Jacob) Thomas

... like Bigglebai?" (Already it was an insult along the River to compare a man to the shifty anthropophagous blue-mottled harrier.) ...

— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling