a genus of birds belonging to the order of accipitres. The beak is strait, and crooked at the point; the head has no feathers, on the forepart being only naked skin; and the tongue is bifid. There are eight spe-

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WAAG, a river of Hungary, which rises in the Carpathian mountains, on the confines of Poland, and running first from east to west, then turns south, and passing by Leopoldstadt, falls into the Danube, opposite to the island of Schut.