Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Fissirostres.
  • In Sundevall's classification of birds, a synonym of Ampligulares.

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Examples

  • Non aliter quam cum humanis furibundus ab antris It sonus et nares simul aura invadit hiantes.

    The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies 1900

  • Qijippe hiantes, in magna fortuna, amicorum cupiditates, ipfa Galbae facilitas intendebac: cum apud infirmum & cre - dulum, minore metu, & majore praemio pecca - retur.

    C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus, Johann August Ernesti 1790

  • Quippe hiantes, in magni fortuna, amicorum cupiditates, ipfa Galbae facilitas intendebat: cum apud infirmum & cre - dulum, minore metu, & majore pramio pecca-» rctur.

    C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia. ... Cornelius Tacitus , Melchior Freinsheim 1790

  • "ille corvos deludit hiantes: nam ubi censuram suam exercet, manifestum hominis phrenesin facile deprehendas!"

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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