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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, same as Vaza.

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Examples

  • Missing Peter (inevitable), enjoying the weather (hot, sunny, a touch humid), and working (also inevitable: Vasa is going to have to wait for the next trip, I’m afraid).

    If this is Friday, it must be Sweden | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2008

  • It was built just to show off a ship called the Vasa which sank in Stockholm's harbor almost 400 years ago.

    Archive 2009-08-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

  • It was built just to show off a ship called the Vasa which sank in Stockholm's harbor almost 400 years ago.

    Stockholm C N Heidelberg 2009

  • His experience was much needed as the Vasa was to be the mightiest warship in the world, armed with 64 guns on two gundecks.

    Archive 2008-05-04 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • His experience was much needed as the Vasa was to be the mightiest warship in the world, armed with 64 guns on two gundecks.

    The Disaster of the Vasa de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • When Hervey -- then known as Vasa -- promised to procure him the mummy of the last Inca, Braddock was extremely pleased.

    The Green Mummy Fergus Hume 1895

  • Until some other way is found and actually prescribed by Rome, bishops such as Vasa can fulminate all they like without really accomplishing anything.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Mike L 2006

  • Until some other way is found and actually prescribed by Rome, bishops such as Vasa can fulminate all they like without really accomplishing anything.

    Bringing back heresy Mike L 2006

  • So he looked for, and got, a second military opinion from former Navy Lt. Gustavus Vasa Fox, who had an ingenious and ultimately untested plan to relieve the fort by sea.

    Lessons of Fort Sumter Bret Stephens 2011

  • "Sterilization has the direct effect of destroying a properly functioning part of the human body," Vasa said in a telephone interview.

    Religious hospitals' restrictions sparking conflicts, scrutiny Rob Stein 2011

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