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Definition of LANNERET

1. a male lanner [n -S] - See also: lanner

Medical Definition of LANNERET

1. A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon. Origin: F. Lanier, OF. Also, lasnier. Cf. Lanyard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of LANNERET

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Lannelongue Lannelongue's foramina Lannelongue's ligaments lanner lanneret lanneret lannerets lanners lanolin lanolin

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Literary usage of LANNERET

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1. The Promptorium parvulorum: The first English-Latin dictionary by Galfridus, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1908)
"[Lanneret is the dimin. of lanner, Fr. lanier, a lanner (COTGRAVE) ; Lat laniarius, that which tears and rends.] 256. 1204. Lasch, insipid. ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"Lanner, Lanneret, a kind of falcon. (F.—L.) These wor are given in Nares ; lanner ... Lanneret is merely diminutive form. From F. lanier, ' a lanner ' ..."

3. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Lanner, Lanneret, a kind of falcon. (F.—L.) These words are given in Nares ... Lanneret is merely the diminutive form. From F. lanier, 'a lanner'; Cotgrave. ..."

4. Heroic Ballads of Servia by Leonard Bacon (1913)
"And Aliya a tame lanneret. Them happed the duck to slay. ... But Aliya said, "Nay, Twas the lanneret." Then was Muyo sore cast down in that place. ..."

5. The Game Law; Or, a Collection of the Laws and Statutes Made for the by Great Britain (1722)
"... kill, or bear away any Gos-hawk, Taffel, Lanner, Lanneret or Faul- con, from the Coverts where they ufe to breed. Penalty io/. to be recovered before ..."

6. On Ancient Manorial Customs, Tenures, Services, Privileges, Serjeanties by Richard Stephen Charnock (1870)
"... two palfreys at the livery of the King; and similar services prevailed at Baddow and 1 Webster gives—" tanner, lanneret, a European specie* of hawk. ..."

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