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  • adjective (Her.) Having jesses on, as a hawk.

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  • adjective Having jesses on, as a hawk.

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Examples

  • Hariba has been "jessed", techno-biologically altered to be subservient to whoever has purchased her.

    REVIEW: Nekropolis by Maureen McHugh 2005

  • I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Want to feel better? 2008

  • Marit chained her to one of the rings hammered into the rock, hooded and jessed her.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • Joss turned away from the view and walked in through the highest mouth, into the high hall where he had jessed and hooded Scar years ago on a visit to Horn Hall, then busy with reeves and eagles and hirelings going to and fro.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • She couldn't fly even if she hadn't been jessed; she hadn't Kyrr's control-and she hung at the end of the leather straps, upside-down, swinging and twisting as she beat at the air and the perch with her wings.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • She couldn't fly even if she hadn't been jessed; she hadn't Kyrr's control-and she hung at the end of the leather straps, upside-down, swinging and twisting as she beat at the air and the perch with her wings.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • And these same youthful lords had but that hour returned from the chase so that they stood yet in the courtyard, each bearing upon his wrist his gerfalcon, hooded and jessed.

    Huon of the Horn Norton, Andre 1951

  • This falcon flew straightway into the chamber, jessed and hooded from the glove, and came where the dame was seated.

    French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France

  • They had, in fact, their birds jessed and hooded and were turning for home, when Prosper saw some fields away a white bird -- gull he thought -- flying low.

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill.

    REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio 2009

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