accipitrine

One word listed by Ms. Tieslau-Jewell is accipitrine, meaning ` hawklike. '

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977

They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground.

The Woodlanders 2006

Now the falcons are dividing lark bunting flocks when powering in for the kill and making low accipitrine attempts on scaled quail.

Offline Chatter 2006

His face was thin, his nose somewhat accipitrine, casting a broad shadow; his mouth rather wide, well formed and well closed, carrying a question and an assertion in its finely finished curves; the lower lip a little prominent, the chin shapely and firm, as becomes the corner-stone of the countenance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

The evolutional meaning of the deep-set Western eye, protruding brow, accipitrine nose, ponderous jaw -- symbols of aggressive force and habit -- was revealed to the gentler race by the same sort of intuition through which a tame animal immediately comprehends the dangerous nature of the first predatory enemy which it sees.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

His face was thin, his nose somewhat accipitrine, casting a broad shadow; his mouth rather wide, well formed and well closed, carrying a question and an assertion in its finely finished curves; the lower lip a little prominent, the chin shapely and firm, as becomes the corner-stone of the countenance.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The most splendid pigeon, perhaps, that the world produces, and the satin bird, with its lovely eye, feed there upon the berries of the ficus (wild fig,) and other trees: and a numerous tribe of the accipitrine class soar over its dense and spacious forests.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832

The most splendid pigeon, perhaps, that the world produces, and the satin bird, with its lovely eye, feed there upon the berries of the ficus (wild fig,) and other trees: and a numerous tribe of the accipitrine class soar over its dense and spacious forests.

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832

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