in ornithology. See Otis.

BUSTUARIUM, in Roman antiquity, gladiators who fought about the button or funeral pile of a person of distinction, that the blood which was spilt might serve as a sacrifice to the infernal gods, and render them more propitious to the shades of the deceased. This custom was introduced in the room of the more inhuman one of sacrificing captives at the button, or on the tombs of warriors.