(n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
(n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harris hawks are not known for their speed but they are social birds and easy to train, making them popular for falconry.
(2) He thought it hilarious that God had made a woman with the falconry bug.
(3) It’s a memoir of mourning, a history of falconry, and has this wonderful special vocabulary of falconry.
(4) After all, her book H is for Hawk is a visceral depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007, and her salvation through falconry.
(5) He is also reported to like big game hunting and falconry.
(6) There are thousands of falconers in the UK ("there also are a lot of falconry widows out there"), and several firms use the technique for pest control in London, according to Bishop.
(7) Later, while spending weekends practicing falconry at Blow’s country estate, McQueen relished the contrast with his early foray into ornithology.
(8) For services to Falconry and the Conservation of Raptors.
(9) In one highly compressed volume, we have the working through of the most desperate grief, a potted history of falconry, a rumination on nature, and an essay on the life of White, a writer best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels The Once and Future King .
(10) She has written one other book, an academic history of falconry, but the story told in H is for Hawk is one that was deeply personal to Macdonald, and it took her almost seven years to put it on to paper.
(11) Cortisol and aldosterone levels were measured in plasma of eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) collected by three different methods, i.e., shooting, live-trapping and falconry.
(12) ‘There are divers Sorts and Sizes of Goshawks ,’ wrote Richard Blome in 1618, ‘which are different in Goodness, force and hardiness according to the several Countries where they are Bred; but no place affords so good as those of Moscovy , Norway , and the North of Ireland , especially in the County of Tyrone .’ But the qualities of goshawks were forgotten with the advent of Land Enclosure, which limited the ability of ordinary folk to fly hawks, and the advent of accurate firearms that made shooting, rather than falconry, high fashion.
(13) Van Vynck recruited Bishop to work on the Trafalgar Square clearance because his then job as head falconer at the English School of Falconry had given him plenty of experience of dealing with the public.
(14) The British Falconers’ Club worked out that for the cost of importing a goshawk from the Continent for falconry, you could afford to bring in a second bird and release it.
(15) She published poetry in her 20s, produced a cultural history of falconry a decade ago, and sees herself as someone who can act as a bridge between academia and the general reader.
(16) Her references to 17th-century disquisitions on falconry sit surprisingly easily in her memoir.
(17) In 2008, Unesco extended its reach to intangible customs and traditions including falconry, French gastronomy and the Spanish flamenco.
(18) Once you start [being interested in falconry], you just keep going and going."
(19) She says she was bullied at school because she was solitary and fascinated by falconry.
Trained
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Train
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.