Ea·gle n.
 1. Zoöl. Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliæetus.  The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight.  The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaëtus); the imperial eagle of Europe (Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia).  The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices.  See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.
 2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
 3. Astron. A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.
 4. The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.
    Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.   --Tennyson.
 Note: ☞ Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle.
 Bald eagle. See Bald eagle.
 Bold eagle. See under Bold.
 Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars.
 Eagle hawk Zoöl., a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus Morphnus.
 Eagle owl Zoöl., any large owl of the genus Bubo, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl (Bubo Virginianus), and the allied European species (B. maximus). See Horned owl.
 Eagle ray Zoöl., any large species of ray of the genus Myliobatis (esp. M. aquila).
 Eagle vulture Zoöl., a large West African bid (Gypohierax Angolensis), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures.

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 Horned a. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
 The horned moon with one bright star
 Within the nether tip.   --Coleridge.
 Horned bee Zool., a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head.
 Horned dace Zool., an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub.
 Horned frog Zool., a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.
 Horned grebe Zool., a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.
 Horned horse Zool., the gnu.
 Horned lark Zool., the shore lark.
 Horned lizard Zool., the horned toad.
 Horned owl Zool., a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared.
 Horned poppy. Bot. See Horn poppy, under Horn.
 Horned pout Zool., an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout.
 Horned rattler Zool., a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder.
 Horned ray Zool., the sea devil.
 Horned screamer Zool., the kamichi.
 Horned snake Zool., the cerastes.
 Horned toad Zool., any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard.
 Horned viper. Zool. See Cerastes.

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