| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ey·as |
| PRONUNCIATION: |     s |
| NOUN: | A nestling hawk or falcon, especially one to be trained for falconry. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin ndus, nest. See sed- in Appendix I.
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