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Accipiter

ACCIP'ITER, n. [L. ad and capio, to seize.] 1. A name given to a fish, the milvus or lucerna, a species of Trigla. 2. In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls. The accipiters have a hooked bill...

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