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† ˈaliet Obs.
[ad. med.L. alietus, or aliaetus, a. Gr. ἁλι-άετος sea-eagle; applied in Middle Ages in somewhat random fashion to other Falconidæ.]
A bird of prey; in Wyclif put for the osprey or sea-eagle; in Her. a merlin or a sparrow-hawk.
1388Wyclif Lev. xi. 13 An egle, and a grippe, aliete and a kyte. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. iv. (1495) 412 Alietous and a fawcon is all one byrde. 1610J. Guillim Displ. Her. iii. xx. (1660) 223 The Aliet is a bird of little power; And little birds are all he eats and doth devour. 1783Bailey, Alet, the true falcon of Peru, that never lets her prey escape. |