Word Meanings - CRYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• GENTILISM
  1. Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods. 2. Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens.
• GENTILIZE
  1. To live like a gentile or heathen. Milton. 2. To act the gentleman; -- with it .
• FALCONGENTIL
  The female or young of the goshawk .
• FALCON
  An ancient form of cannon. Chanting falcon. See under Chanting. (more info) fr. LL. falco, perh. from L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe, and One of a family of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful
• GENTILITY
  belong to the same clan, also, heathenism: cf. F. gentilité 1. Good extraction; dignity of birth. Macaulay. He . . . mines my gentility with my education. Shak. 2. The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect,
• FALCONER
  A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.
• FALCONRY
  1. The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game. 2. The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
• GENTILITIAL; GENTILITIOUS
  1. Peculiar to a people; national. Sir T. Browne. 2. Hereditary; entailed on a family. Arbuthnot.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• GENTILESSE
  Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.
• GENTILLY
  In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. Chaucer.
• GENTIL
  Gentle. Chaucer.
• GENTILE-FALCON
  See FALCON-GENTIL
• GENTILISH
  Heathenish; pagan.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• GENTILE
  One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen. Note: The Hebrews included in the term goyim, or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The
• FALCONET
  1. One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later. One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax. One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.
• FALCONINE
  Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ
• GIER-FALCON
  The gyrfalcon.
• GYRFALCON
  One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the (more info) perh. fr. L. gyrus circle
• GERFALCON
  See GYRFALCON