Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
- noun Any of several birds of these or related species, such as hawks, trained to hunt small game.
- noun A female bird of this type used in falconry.
- noun A small cannon in use from the 15th to the 17th century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A diurnal bird of prey, not a vulture; especially, a hawk used in falconry.
- noun In ornithology:
- noun One of the Falconidæ.
- noun One of the Falconidæ.
- noun Specifically, a bird of the genus Falco.
- noun In falconry, a female falcon, as distinguished from the male, which is about a third smaller, and is known as a tercel, tiercel, or tiercelet. See
haggard . - noun A kind of cannon in use in the sixteenth century.
- noun Same as
femoral falcon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a family (
Falconidæ ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight. - noun Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
- noun (Gun.) An ancient form of cannon.
- noun (Zoöl.) See under
Chanting .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
bird of thegenus Falco , all of which arebirds of prey . - verb To
hunt with a falcon or falcons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hunt with falcons
- noun diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But Syfka, an ancient falcon, is claiming that one of her people is hidden in the avian and serpiente land.
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Though I feel guilty for the torture its giving you, the maltese falcon is making me starved for a story that doesn't exist yet.
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Half drunk, they call their falcon and wander far off to hunt.
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Half drunk, they call their falcon and wander far off to hunt.
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Indus” questioned the fact, known to so many travellers, that the falcon is also killed by this “tiger of the air,” despite the latter’s feeble bill (pp. 35 – 38).
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Sokol means "falcon" -- no doubt the original badge favoured by Slavonic societies.
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Meh, maybe when it was called the falcon back in Perfect dark (scoped falcon = = halo 2 pistol) Baby mario, Yoshis island, and all the wario games/mario sports titles i view as the true sellout ponts for mario.
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Before I quit, the monikers "modern" and "primitive" falconry may need a bit more explaining: Steve flies a domestic-bred, hybrid falcon, which is hardly primitive.
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A falcon was our houseguest convalescing after a nasty encounter with the high-tension electrical wires.
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They were both silent for a long while, Nefer containing himself, although his disappointment at the loss of the falcon was a torment as intense as if he had thrust his hand into flames.
chained_bear commented on the word falcon
"an ancient name given to a 3 pounder a size/type of cannon." (citation in Historical Military Terms list description)
See also falconet.
October 9, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word falcon
See hawk.
March 3, 2011