American Heritage Dictionary
(1)
Century Dictionary
(3)
GNU Webster's 1913
(1)
WordNet
Elsewhere on the web
Trailer: 'Les sept jours du talion'— The Cultural Post
Calabria to the Alps, and well may it have filled the handsome weakling who was the object of its cruel ridicule with a talion fury.— The Life of Cesare Borgia
Companions were instant with the plaintiffs to accept the bloodwit and win the thanks of the folk, but they refused and would nothing but the talion.— The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
His hostess saw these movements with satisfaction: he had appeased her personal indignation, but her soul was not hospitable towards him, and the devil in her was gratified with the sight of his discomposure: she hankered after talion, not waited on penitence.— Warlock o' Glenwarlock
The interval between overture and finale is, as has been said or hinted, uncommonly lively, and for once, not only in the final retribution, Paul has distributed the _peine du talion_ pretty equally between his personages.— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

American Heritage Dictionary (1)
Century Dictionary (2)
We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.
Recently looked upeos · Slugger · olympiad · dissipates · sentences |
Recent Favoritespygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms |
Recent Pronunciationsthese grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor · forget what witticism you were originally going to insert here because you've just banged your knee on your desk · the rest will come naturally |