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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
peregrine \per"egrine\ pe^r"-egri^n; 277, a. l.
peregrinus. see pilgrim.
foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.
spelt also pelegrine. "peregrine and preternatural heat."
--bacon.
1913 webster
peregrine falcon zool., a courageous and swift falcon
falco peregrinus, remarkable for its wide distribution
over all the continents. the adult plumage is dark bluish
ash on the back, nearly black on the head and cheeks,
white beneath, barred with black below the throat. called
also peregrine hawk, duck hawk, game hawk, and
great-footed hawk.
1913 webster
see also:
pilgrim pelegrine peregrine falcon falco peregrinus peregrine hawk duck hawk
game hawk great-footed hawk
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
peregrine \per"egrine\ pe^"-egri^n; 277, n.
the peregrine falcon.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
peregrine
adj : 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" syn: mobile, nomadic,
roving, wandering
n : a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry syn:
peregrine falcon, falco peregrinus
see also:
mobile nomadic roving wandering peregrine falcon falco peregrinus
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 moby thesaurus words for "peregrine":
ahasuerus, ancient mariner, argonaut, flying dutchman, goliard,
odysseus, oisin, ossian, ulysses, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory,
bird of passage, circuit-riding, drifter, expeditionary, floater,
gad, gadabout, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-about, going,
itinerant, itinerary, journeying, locomotive, mover, moving,
mundivagant, on tour, passing, pedestrian, perambulating,
perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrinator, peripatetic,
pilgrimlike, progressing, rambler, roamer, rolling stone, rover,
runabout, straggler, stroller, strolling, strolling player,
touring, touristic, touristy, traveling, trekking, troubadour,
visitant, walking, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar,
wayfaring
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