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A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something. And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. Shak. Before I take my farewell of the subject. Addison.

bling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.…

ing the favor of God. -- To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. Shak.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. Boyle.

complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.

gures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

ical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series bein…

ed with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. -- Fire shovel, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. -- Fire stink, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. Raymond. -- Fire surface, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of…

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.

To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.

To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat. A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or…

To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

fly. (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. "A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim." Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.