GLOSSARY. 231 



Train, s., the tail of a hawk. Also the live bird that is given on a line to 

 the hawk when first entered. 



Truss, z/., Fr. trousser^ to clutch the quarry in the air instead of striking 

 it to the ground. 



Tyrrit, j., a swivel, or turning-ring, from the Fr. touret, the use of 

 which is thus explained by Littr^ : " anneau double qui empeche les 

 jets d'un faucon ou toute autre courroie de s'embrouiller ; " and by 

 Baron Dunoyer de Noirmont : *' pour empecher les jets et la longe 

 de s'enrouler, on interposait entre eux un touret, compost de deux 

 anneaux de mdtal, tournant I'un sur I'autre." The word occurs in 

 Chaucer, who describes greyhounds " with mosel fast ybound, 

 colered with gold, and torretes filed round." See Warton's note on 

 the passage, "History of English Poetry," vol. ii. p. 99 (1824). The 

 mode of making a tyrrit or swivel is minutely described and its use 

 explained in the work of the Emperor Frederick II., "Z?^ arte 

 venandi aim avibus,'^ ■wx'xii&mhont 1247, and first printed in 1596. 

 See chapter xl. of the second book, entitled " De tornetto^ qualiter 

 factum sit, et ad quid sit utile." 



Unreclaimed, adj., wild. 



Unstrike the hood, v., to loosen the braces so that the hood may be 

 easily pulled off. 



Unsummed, adj. A hawk is said to be unsummed while moulting, 

 before her new feathers are grown up. 



Urines, s., nets to catch hawks. — Nicholas Cox, 1674. ^ corruption 

 probably of the Fr. araigne, " sorte de filet pour prendre les 

 oiseaux divers et meme les oiseaux de proie;'' — Cerfon, " De la Basse 

 Volerie," p. 145. 



Varvels, s., small flat rings of silver on which the owner's name was 

 engraved, fastened to the ends of the jesses, and used instead of 

 a swivel, the leash being passed through them. One is figured 

 on the title-page of Bert's Treatise, 1619. See also Camden, 

 " Britannia," i. 329 ; Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 63, p. loi ; vol. 65, 

 p. 474 ; ArchcBologia, vol. xii. p. 410, pi. 51 j and Dillon, Proc, Soc. 

 . ^«//^., 2nd series, vol. iv. (1869), p. 353. 



Wait on, Fr. tenir d mont. A hawk is said to " wait on" when she soars in 

 circles over the head of the falconer, waiting for the game to be flushed. 



Warbile, Warbel, and Warble, v. A hawk warbleth when after " rous- 

 ing" and " mantling" {q.v^ she crosses her wings together over her 

 back. " She mantellith and not stretchith when she putteth her leges 

 from her oon after another : and hir wynges follow after hir leggs : then 



