At least one eyas is now big enough to show up over the edge of the nest.    From LearnThat.org. 

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 reclaim the haggard hawk.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar's Daughter] Reference

But no, I have no more sense than an unfledged eyas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eagle And The Nightingale]

She, who holds a grudge like an eyas binds to a kill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

I had hoped Tyladen would be that leader, but I fear he is a weak branch to land that eyas on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eagle And The Nightingale]

Hatshepsut had been taken as an eyas from her aerie long before she could have known what freedom was all about.    From Wordnik.com.  [From This Beloved Hour]

So eyas, like orange and umpire, is the result of metanalysis false division of the article + noun unit: "a nias" "an eyas".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: EYAS.] Reference

Mullenix trivia: The first trained falcon I ever held was an eyas bat falcon taken in Panama and bound for the Peregrine Fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bat Falcon] Reference

Faloners call the young in the nest an eyas; rehabbers and falconers call the very small ones, covered only in fluff, 'downies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Werehunter]

An eyas was a hawk taken from its nest while still without feathers, but the haggard was a bird caught after it had gained adult plumage in the wild.    From Wordnik.com.  [From This Beloved Hour]

It was feeling that held him here, weak as a newborn eyas, simply accepting the comfort and the understanding as an unthinking eyas would accept them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eagle And The Nightingale]

The latter, Darkwind fed her as he would an eyas: little morsels cut from a fresh rabbit that Vree brought back within moments of her asking for something to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

If the adults are bonded to someone, they let that person know who the eyas is going to, and if that person has experience with downy baby birds, very often they co-parent with the eyas's new bondmate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Owlflight]

And I recognized when he glossed contended words from the text, like eyas and hebona.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girl Detective] Reference

For their part, the four babies (or eyas, as the DNR calls baby falcons) seemed pretty unhappy, too.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I have lost credit of late, by bringing over no one that had sense to know more than how to unharbour a stag, or take and reclaim an eyas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

That is the law nowadays nowhere except in the sanctum of the Gal-Dal News, where Col. Jenkins takes the editorial eyas and teaches it to soar ln exact imitation of himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference

  But not the eyas – brood behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agamemnon] Reference

A Notion void f fencei awaking dream j S Such as fmai'ill dirgeiled (lioiigKts dotii (lenfaj A Monftcr, which you paint with hollow eyas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epicteti enchiridion, made Engl., in a poetical paraphrase, by E. Walker] Reference

Too late, my royal eyas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saint's Tragedy] Reference

But not the eyas-brood behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Atreus] Reference

As when, an eyas, from the stolid cliff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Ere flitting Time could wag his eyas wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fowre Hymnes] Reference

To still their eyas thoughts with industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero and Leander and Other Poems] Reference

How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference

Nor fhould our fpoufes fee, but with our eyas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical] Reference

154 eyas, iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

I got him as an eyas. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffin Dancer]

Of tercel, eyas, hood, and jess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins]

Dyce thinks the meaning of "eyas" here may be "restless.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference