(Cotgrave) -- and sometimes Lennard, an imitative form of "lanner," the name of an inferior hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

The regionally threatened Eurasian griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) and lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus) also occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middle East steppe] Reference

The significant grassland birds are mainly raptors, such as the black and crowned eagles (Aquila verreauxii, Stephanoaetus coronatus) and the lanner and peregrine falcons (Falco biarmicus, F. peregrinus).    From Wordnik.com.  [South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic] Reference

An Asia brown wood owl and two lanner falcons have also hatched at the centre in recent days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference

My Lord Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

Guipufcoa, we may form fome conjefture of lanner in which the Hermiona was loft, and diftrefTes endured by the three remaining ihipt.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America] Reference

The Royal Air Force base at Mildenhall in England, for example, relies on a Moroccan lanner hawk named Goldie to ward off unwanted birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City infoZine Headlines] Reference

The lanner falcons are being reared by keepers, using tweezers to feed them, until they are around 12 days old and can be given back to their parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference

"The falcon cage is empty," said Lady Greymarten, pointing to a large wired dome that towered high above the other enclosures, "I let the lanner fly free one day.    From Wordnik.com.  [When William Came] Reference

80. falcon-lanner: a long-tailed species of hawk, ` falco laniarius '.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

The ecoregion also hosts a high diversity of birds, including a number of endemic species, such as Silvia sarda, as well as threatened raptors including griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), Eleonora’s falcon (Falco eleonorae), lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus), levant sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes), and Bonelli’s eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests] Reference

A wide range of birds can be found here, including a number of endemic species, such as Marmora's warbler (Silvia sarda), and threatened raptors including Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), Eleonora’s falcon (Falco eleonorae), lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus), levant sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes), and Bonelli’s eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests] Reference

Hawk: lanner, II¶18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Index] Reference

Oh for a noble falcon-lanner 80.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dramatic Romances] Reference

As alights the screaming lanner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of a Wayside Inn] Reference

Oh, for a noble falcon-lanner 80.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

As to catch a hawk, some falcon-lanner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dramatic Romances] Reference

A "falcon-lanner" is a long-tailed hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

The lanner < 70.4 > and the lanneret < 70.5 >.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lucasta Poems] Reference

I am skilled in the uses of falcon-gentle, gerfalcon, saker, lanner, merlin, hobby, goshawk, sparrow-hawk, and musket -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference