Falcon
A carnivorous bird.
Leviticus 11:14; Deuteronomy 14:13
FAL'CON, noun Sometimes pronoun fawcon. [Latin falco, a hawk. The falcon is probably so named from its curving beak or talons.]
1. A hawk; but appropriately, a hawk trained to sport, as in falconry, which see. It is said that this name is, by sportsmen, given to the female alone; for the male is smaller, weaker and less courageous, and is therefore called tircelet or tarsel.
This term, in ornithology, is applied to a division of the genus Falco, with a short hooked beak and very long wings, the strongest armed and most courageous species, and therefore used in falconry.
2. A sort of cannon, whose diameter at the bore is five inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of two pounds and a half.
FAL'CONER, noun A person who breeds and trains hawks for taking wild fowls; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
FAL'CONET, noun A small cannon or piece of ordinance, whose diameter at the bore is four inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of one pound and a quarter.
FAL'CONRY, noun [Latin falco, a hawk.]
1. The art of training hawks to the exercise of hawking.
2. The practice of taking wild fowls by means of hawks.