Word Meanings - FALCONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.
Related words: (words related to FALCONER)
- TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - FOWLERITE
A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - SPORTING
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - JOHNSONIANISM
A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. - JOHNSONESE
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett. - SPORTAL
Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - SPORTFUL
1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful - PERSONA
See 8 - DISPORT
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - SEA FOWL
Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - OUTTAKE
Except. R. of Brunne. - STAKTOMETER
A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster. - BATFOWLER
One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.