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of Falconry," 1678, chap. ii. § 9. The old Spanish writers on 

 Falconry refer to it as motnta : cf. Pero Lopez de Ayala, " Libro de 

 las Aves de Caga," chap, xxviii. The use of it was probably intro- 

 duced into Spain by the Moors, as it appears to be derived from the 

 Arabic moumiya, from mourn, wax. — Cf. Dozy et Engelmann, " Glos- 

 saire des Mots espagnols ddriv^s de I'arabe," 2nd edit. Leyde, 1869. 



MUER DES CHAMPS, or MUER DE HAVE. See MeW. 



Musket, j., the male Sparrow-hawk ; French mouchet., Dutch moskei. 



MuTFS, s., the droppings or excrement of hawks. "And ye shall say 

 that your hauke mutith."— " Boke of St. Albans," i486. Or, if a 

 short-winged hawk, she " sliceth," op. cit. 



Nares, j., the nostrils of a hawk. From the Latin. 



Nyas, s., sc. an eyas, or eyess, Fr. niais, a nestling hawk taken from the 

 eyrie or nest. — Dunoyer de Noirmont, " Hist, de la Chasse en 

 France," iii. p. 120. O.Fr. nyh. '■'■ Tu auras faulcons et laniers 

 nyds, ramaiges, sors, muers." — Gace de la Eigne, 14th cent. Tur- 

 bervile, in his " Booke of Falconrie," 1575, has a chapter entitled 

 " How to keepe Nyasse Sparowhawkes." See note to Eyess. 



Ostringer, s., sc. austringer, and astringer (Shakespeare), generally re- 

 stricted to one who keeps short-winged hawks, especially the Gos- 

 hawk. Fr. austour and autour. " We usually call a falconer, who 

 keeps that kind of hawk, an austringer." — Cowell, " Law Diet." 

 Bert employs the term austringer. — " Treatise of Hawkes," 1619. 

 The form ostreger also occurs, from ostercus or austercus. — Ducange, 

 sub voce Astur. "A Goshawk is in our records termed by the 

 several names of osturcum, hostricum, estricium, asturcum, and 

 austercum, all from the Fr. austour [mod. autour; Lat. astur\" 

 — Blount, "Ancient Tenures," 4to, 1815, p. 266, "A techer or 

 ynstructor of fawkners and ostrigers." — Reed, " Governance of 

 Hawkes," 1557. Turbervile has "certaine observations for an Os- 

 treger in keeping of a Goshawke." — "Booke of Falconrie," 1575. 

 Ray also has " Ostreger." — " Summary of Falconry," 1678. 



Pannel, s., the stomach or lower bowel of a hawk. 



Pantas, s., a disease in hawks akin to asthma. 



Passage-hawk, a wild hawk caught upon the passage or migration. 



Paster, ^., plaister ; used medicinally ; now obsolete. 



Perch, s., is that whereon you set down your hawk when you put her off 

 your fist. — Ray, " Summary of Falconry," 1678. The perch is used 

 in the house ; the block, out of doors. See Block. 



