Bate. 
Bewits. 
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GLOSSARY. 
To flutter off the fist, block, etc. 
Straps of leather by which the bells are fastened to 
the legs. 
Bind. 
Bolt. 
To fjisten on to the (piarry. 
To fly straight from fist at game a.s Goshawks and 
Sparrow Hawks do. 
Cast. 
Ca.<itings. 
Two Hawks. 
Fc“athers, fur, or tow, given with meat to cleanse the 
Crahbing. 
Creance. 
Enter. 
Eyess, 
Eyrie. 
Falcon. 
Hack. 
gorge. 
Hawks seizing each other. 
A long string. 
To fly the Hawk at (juarry for the first time. 
A Ne.stling Hawk. 
The breeding-i)lace. 
The Female I’erogrine par excellence, or Goshawk. 
The state of liberty in which 3 ’onng long-winged 
Hawks are kept for some time before training. 
Short-winged Hawks are never hacked. 
Hack-hoard. 
Haggard. 
Imping. 
Intermiewed. 
Jack. 
Jesses. 
A platform on which Hawks at hack arc fed. 
A wild caught mature Hawk. 
Mending broken feathers. 
AVhen a Hawk is moulted in confinement. 
A Male .Merlin. 
Leather stnips fastened to the legs of Hawks by 
Leash. 
which the>’ are tied. 
The leather thong by which the Hawk is tied to 
l>crch or block. 
Lure. 
The instrument by which Hawks are attracted to 
the Falconer. 
Mew. 
Mutes. 
Ostrager or 
Oitrigier. 
To moult; also the place in which Hawks are kept. 
The droppings of a Hawk. 
Ancient name given to trainer and user of Goshawks. 
Derivation, Ostereus or .lustereus, old Latin for 
a Goshawk. 
Passage Hawk. A wild Hawk taken on passage or migration in 
Pitch. 
Prune. 
Pull through 
Hood. 
Put in. 
Quarry. 
immature plumage. 
The height to which a Hawk rises in the air. 
AVhen a Hawk arranges its feathers. 
To eat through the aperture in front of hood 
when on. 
Is when quarry is driven to cover. 
The game flown at. 
Rtiffer-Hood. An easy hood, used in training wild caught Hawks. 
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