eyas

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With this duty, he said, he always baited the hook with which he fished for her; "or, to take a figure from the old hawking days, her eyas is the lure with which I would reclaim the haggard hawk What will be the final result, who dares prophesy?

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  1. noun A nestling hawk or falcon, especially one to be trained for falconry.

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  1. Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin nīdus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A corruption, due to dividing, taking a nyas, a nias, as an eyas; so eye, a nest, for nye; the initial n being thus lost from the noun, as in adder, orange, etc.: see nias.
 

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