tercellene

English

Noun

tercellene (plural not attested)

(obsolete) A small male hawk.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
  the first produceth a female and large hawk, the second of a middler sort, and the third a smaller bird, tercellene , or tassel, of the male sex

Related terms

tassel

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tercellene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)