eaglet

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Once the eaglet is out, the tooth dries up and falls off.

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  1. noun A young eagle.

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  • The school to which our callow eaglet was sent (in the spring or early summer of 1824), belonged emphatically to the old school of schools. —  Life of Charles Dickens
  • Once the eaglet is out, the pip dries up and falls off.
  • Once the eaglet is out, the tooth dries up and falls off.
  • 'But you cannot reach the eaglet, you said so yourself lately! —  The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales.
  • And such embryo eaglet is man, considered only as to what this life realizes 2. —  The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
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  1. Earlier modern English also eglet; from French aiglette, diminutive of aigle, eagle: see eagle.
 

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/ˈiglɛt/
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