falcon

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No sooner said he this than the falcon was after the hoodie, and she was not long putting her to earth; and as the hoodie fell on the bank of the loch, out of her jumps the trout.

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  1. noun Any of various birds of prey of the family Falconidae and especially of the genus Falco, having a short, curved beak and long, pointed, powerful wings adapted for swift flight.
  2. noun Any of several birds of these or related species, such as hawks, trained to hunt small game.
  3. noun A female bird of this type used in falconry.
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  • She is capable of the most romantic actions;—wild as the falcon, and voluptuous as the tuberose,—yet she has not in her the elements of romance like a deeper and less susceptible nature. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I
  • A falcon is about striking while opportunity is hot, and giving it your all when opportunity knocks, no holding back. —  LKH Blog
  • The falcon is the third wild bird or mammal to be named after the host of "The Colbert Report." —  Alanat News
  • When you are falcon, against any player, falcon is the best.
  • A falcon might be able to perch on the narrow peak of that mountain, but you can't fit a dragon on the same spot. —  GameDev.Net
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  1. Middle English, from Old French faucon, falcun, from Late Latin falcō, falcōn-; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The present spelling is an alteration, to bring the form near the L.; early modern English faucon, faulcon, etc.; from Middle English faucon, faukon, fawkon, fawken, fawcoun, from Old French faucon, falcun, later faulcon, modern faucon = Provencal faucon, falc = Old Spanish falcon, Spanish halcon = Portuguese falcão = Italian falcone = Old High German falcho, German falke = Dutch valk = Icelandic fālki = Swedish Danish falk = LGr. φάλκων, from Late Latin falco(n-), a falcon, so called from the hooked claws, from Latin falx (falc-), a sickle: see falcate. Cf. gerfalcon.
 

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