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Falconry :: Falconry (n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

Hawk :: Hawk (v. i.) To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry..

Faulcon :: Faulcon (n.) See Falcon.

Ignoble :: Ignoble (a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk..

Haggard :: Haggard (a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call..

Cryer :: Cryer (n.) The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

Jerfalcon :: Jerfalcon (n.) The gyrfalcon.

Jugger :: Jugger (n.) An East Indian falcon. See Lugger.

Saker :: Saker (n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner..

Sore :: Sore (n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

Gier-falcon :: Gier-falcon (n.) The gyrfalcon.

Falcongentil :: Falcongentil (n.) The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

Eyas :: Eyas (n.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself..

Tiercelet :: Tiercelet (n.) The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk..

Merlin :: Merlin (n.) A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. aesalon)..

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Falcon :: Falcon (n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game..

Accipitral :: Accipitral (n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike..

Shahin :: Shahin (n.) A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.

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