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FALCON
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English
Surname relating to falconry.
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British, English
Falconer
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American, British, English
Falconry; Surname Relating to Falconry
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English
English : nickname from Middle English hobi ‘hobby’, a small falcon, or from the same word denoting a small horse.English : habitational name from Hoby in Leicestershire, named with Old English hÅh ‘spur of a hill’ + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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English
Falconer; one who trains falcons.
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English
English : from an Old English nickname mǣw, mēaw ‘seagull’, or the same word used as a personal name, Mēawa. Compare Maw.English : metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of a mew, a cage for hawks and falcons, especially while moulting, from Old French mue, a derivative of muer ‘to moult’ (from Latin mutare ‘to change’).
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English
English : from the Anglo-Norman French personal name Fau(l)ques (oblique case Fau(l)que), originally a Germanic byname meaning ‘falcon’.
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German
German : occupational name for a falconer, Middle High German vakenoere. In medieval times falconry was a sport practised only by the nobility; it was the task of the falconer to look after the birds and train young ones.English : variant spelling of Faulkner.Daniel Falckner (1666–c.1745), German Lutheran pastor and agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, founded the first German Lutheran congregation in America.
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Tamil
Falcon
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French faucon, falcun ‘falcon’, either a metonymic occupational name for a falconer, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the falcon, which was regarded as a symbol of speed and courage in the Middle Ages. In a few cases, it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a man who operated the piece of artillery named after the bird of prey. Compare Faulkner.In Louisiana, the name Falcón is borne by the descendants of Canary Islanders brought in to settle in 1779.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English, Old French hagard ‘wild’, ‘untamed’. This word was adopted into Middle English as a technical term in falconry to denote a hawk that had been captured and trained when already fully grown, rather than being reared in captivity; the surname may have developed as a metonymic occupational name for a falconer.Americanized form of Danish Ågård (see Agard).
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Muslim
Falcon
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English (mainly Norfolk and Suffolk)
English (mainly Norfolk and Suffolk) : variant of Faulks.Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Facco, a variant of Falco, itself probably a short form of a personal name formed with fal, a tribal name (as in Westphalia) or alternatively a byname meaning ‘falcon’.
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English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from places in Eure and Calvados named Harcourt, from Old French cour(t) (see Court) with an obscure first element.English : habitational name from either of two places in Shropshire named Harcourt. The one near Cleobury Mortimer gets the name from Old English heafocere ‘hawker’, ‘falconer’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘cottage’; the one near Wem has as its first element Old English hearpere (see Harper).
Boy/Male
English
Falconer; one who trains falcons.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Falcon
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Tamil
Praachika | பà¯à®°à®¾à®šà®¿à®•ா
Driving, Falcon, Long-legged, Spider
Praachika | பà¯à®°à®¾à®šà®¿à®•ா
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British, English
Falconer
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English
English : variant spelling of Faulkner.Americanized form of the French cognate Fauconnier ‘falconer’.
FALCON
FALCON
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German
From the protected farm.
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Latin
Honest.
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British, English
Gift from God
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Muslim
A narrator of Hadith
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Muslim
Brilliant
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Indian
Slave of the one who raises death
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Indian
Give Happiness
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Hindu
Weaponed soldier, Jain God, Short form of parshvanath, rd tirthankara in jainism
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Tamil
Agnivo | அகà¯à®¨à¯€à®µà¯‹
Flame of the fire
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Wife of God Murugan
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FALCON
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The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.
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See Falcon-gentil.
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An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
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A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
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In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.
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The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
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A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.
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A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.
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Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
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A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
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A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. aesalon).
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One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
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A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.
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The peregrine falcon.
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Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry.
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A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
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The male falcon.
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Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae
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One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.
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The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.