peregrine falconfalcon

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peregrine
Wandering, travelling, migratory

The gypsies are perpetually peregrine people.

not native to a region or country; foreign; alien
(Kuşbilim) The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as a Duck Hawk or simply as a Peregrine, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a medium to large-sized falcon, females being larger and about the size of a large crow, with a blue-gray back, barred white underside, and a black head and "mustache". There are seventeen described subspecies, which vary in appearance and range
{a} foreign, outlandish, strange, new
A Planet is then said to be Peregrine, when he is in the degrees of any Sign wherein he has no essential dignity: As Saturn in the tenth degree of Aries, that Sign being not his House, Exaltation, or of his Triplicity, or he having in that degree either Term or Faces, he is then said to be Peregrine; had he been in 27, 28 &c of Aries, he could not be termed Peregrine, because then he is in his own Term So the Sun in any part of Cancer is Peregrine, having no manner of dignity in that Sign This is very much material in all Questions, to know the Peregrine Planet, especially in questions of Theft; for ever almost the significator of the Thief is known by the Peregrine Planet posited in an Angle, or the second House
a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry
{s} foreign, strange, from a distant place
(3 syl ) ran away from home, and obtained a loan of £10 from Job Thornbury, with which he went abroad and traded; he returned a wealthy man, and arrived in London on the very day Job Thornbury was made a bankrupt Having paid the creditors out of the proceeds made from the hardwareman's loan, he married his daughter (George Colman the Younger: John Bull )
The peregrine falcon
Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic
{i} foreign, alien; peregrine falcon (type of bird)
When a planet is void of essential dignities Planets in mutual reception cannot be peregrine
(3 syl ) ran away from home, and obtained a loan of £10 from Job Thornbury, with which he went abroad and traded; he returned a wealthy man, and arrived in London on the very day Job Thornbury was made a bankrupt Having paid the creditors out of the proceeds made from the hardwareman's loan, he married his daughter (George Colman the Younger: John Bull )
(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
The largest, and rarest, of the Boundary Waters falcons (Falco peregrinus) From the Latin peregrinus, "foreigner," which has come into English as pilgrim So named by medieval falconers because the birds were taken, not as young from the nest, but in migration, en pelerinage
From the Latin word peregrinus, meaning wanderer or pilgrim
peregrine falconfalcon
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