252 FALCONRY 



COPING. Trimming and paring the beak and talons. 



CRABBING. Hawks fighting with one another. 



DECK FEATHERS. The two centre feathers of the tail. 



ENTER. To train a hawk to a particular quarry. 



EYESS, or EYAS. A hawk taken from the nest. 



FALCON. Means the female of any hawk as opposed to the male, 



when used by falconers. Naturalists use the word to signify 



a long -winged as opposed to a short-winged hawk. 

 FALCON GENTLE. Another name for a peregrine. 

 FROUNCE. A disease in the mouth and throat of a hawk. 

 GORGE. To give a hawk as much as she will eat. 

 HACK. A state of liberty in which young eyesses are kept for 



some weeks to enable them to gain power of wing. 

 HACK- BOARD. A board or table upon which the hawks at hack 



are daily fed. 

 HAGGARD. A hawk captured after she has assumed the mature 



plumage i.e. is two years old at the least. 

 HOOD. A cap of leather used for blinding a hawk, so as to bring 



her under proper control. 

 IMP. To repair broken feathers. 



INTERMEWED. A hawk that has been moulted in confinement 

 JESSES. Leather straps about six inches long permanently secured 



to the legs of a hawk. 

 LEASH. A leathern thong fastened by a swivel to the jesses in 



order to secure the hawk to a perch or block. 

 MAKE-HAWK. An old hawk flown with a young one to assist and 



encourage her. 

 MANNED. A hawk that is tame enough to endure the company 



of strangers. 

 MANTLE. To sit on the perch with wings and tail fully spread a 



sign of an ill-tempered hawk. 

 MEWS. The place where hawks are kept. 

 MUTES. Hawks' droppings. 

 NARES. Hawks' nostrils. 

 NESTLING. The same as an eyess. 

 PANNEL. The gut of a hawk. 



PASSAGE. The regular flight of any quarry to or from its feeding- 

 ground ; also the annual migration of hawks. 

 PASSAGE HAWKS. Hawks which are caught when fully grown, as 



they migrate. 

 PERCH. The pole or rail on which hawks are usually kept within 



doors. 



