TALON

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. Bacon.

2.
n.

One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

3.
n.

A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

4.
n.

The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. Knight.