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Webster 1913 Edition

Accipiter

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Ac-cip′i-ter

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Noun.
;
pl. E.
Accipiters
. L.
Accipitres
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[L., hawk.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
2.
(Surg.)
A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Webster 1828 Edition

Accipiter

ACCIP'ITER

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Noun.
[L. ad and capio, to seize.]
1.
A name given to a fish, the milvus or lucerna, a species of Trigla.
2.
In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls.
The accipiters have a hooked bill, the superior mandible, near the base, being extended on each side beyond the inferior. The genera are the vultur, the falco, or hawk, and the strix, or owl.

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