accipitrine

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Tall, lean, with strong, bold features, a keen, scholarly, accipitrine nose, thin, expressive lips, great solemnity and impressiveness of voice and manner, he was my early model of a classic orator.

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  1. Of or pertaining to the Accipitres or raptorial birds, or
  2. the hawks proper, of the subfamily Accipitrinæ; hawk-like; rapacious: as, the accipitrine order of birds.

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  • Tall, lean, with strong, bold features, a keen, scholarly, accipitrine nose, thin, expressive lips, great solemnity and impressiveness of voice and manner, he was my early model of a classic orator. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • His face was thin, his nose somewhat accipitrine, casting a broad shadow; his mouth rather wide, well formed and well closed, carrying a question and an assertion in its finely finished curves; the lower lip a little prominent, the chin shapely and firm, as becomes the corner-stone of the countenance. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • The most splendid pigeon, perhaps, that the world produces, and the satin bird, with its lovely eye, feed there upon the berries of the ficus (wild fig,) and other trees: and a numerous tribe of the accipitrine class soar over its dense and spacious forests. —  Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
  • They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground. —  The Woodlanders
  • The evolutional meaning of the deep-set Western eye, protruding brow, accipitrine nose, ponderous jaw -- symbols of aggressive force and habit -- was revealed to the gentler race by the same sort of intuition through which a tame animal immediately comprehends the dangerous nature of the first predatory enemy which it sees. —  Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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  1. from New Latin Accipitrinæ, from Latin accipiter: see accipiter.
 

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