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n. - An unfledged or nestling hawk.

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  • At least one eyas is now big enough to show up over the edge of the nest.
  • With this duty, he said, he always baited the hook with which he fished for her; "or, to take a figure from the old hawking days, her eyas is the lure with which I would...
  • But no, I have no more sense than an unfledged eyas.
  • She, who holds a grudge like an eyas binds to a kill.
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