eyass

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A form of eyas — A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry.

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Meanings

nouneyass (plural eyasses)

plural eyasses

  1. alternativefalconryAlternative form of eyas.
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    When Roland Græme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyass, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from a celebrated eyrie in the neighbourhood, called Gledscraig.

    1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 82

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

eyass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eyass

MLA

“eyass.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eyass. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eyass,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eyass.

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