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  • noun Plural form of eyass.

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Examples

  • Indeed, he added, the mother of the three eyasses looked so much like Pale Male that, initially, he confused the two birds.

    Frank DiGiacomo: Baby Red-Tailed Hawks Live and Die in New York: Frank DiGiacomo DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

  • Indeed, he added, the mother of the three eyasses looked so much like Pale Male that, initially, he confused the two birds.

    Frank DiGiacomo: VF Daily DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

  • These are the "troops of children, little eyasses" alluded to by Shakespeare in "Hamlet."

    Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

  • Clara the peregrine falcon, who has nested on an 18th-floor ledge since 2007, and her current paramour, Esteban Colbert, have just become parents to three (and maybe four by now) little eyasses, as they're called.

    GMSV 2009

  • He’d already posted photos of the eyasses, the term for baby hawks, on his website, and he excitedly told me he was confident that the red-tail female that had produced the babies was the “daughter” of Pale Male, who, along with Lola and previous mates, has produced some 23 offspring in the 17 years that he has made New York his home.

    Frank DiGiacomo: Baby Red-Tailed Hawks Live and Die in New York: Frank DiGiacomo DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

  • He’d already posted photos of the eyasses, the term for baby hawks, on his website, and he excitedly told me he was confident that the red-tail female that had produced the babies was the “daughter” of Pale Male, who, along with Lola and previous mates, has produced some 23 offspring in the 17 years that he has made New York his home.

    Frank DiGiacomo: VF Daily DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

  • "Faith," chuckled Barlowe, "here be some little eyasses practising a fantasy for the Queen's pleasure.

    Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

  • _Woman is a Weathercock_, and _Amends for Ladies_ (invective and palinode), by Nathaniel Field (first one of the little eyasses who competed with regular actors, and then himself an actor and playwright); Green's "_Tu

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

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