Middle English Dictionary Entry
eies n.
Entry Info
| Forms | eies n. Also eias. |
| Etymology | OF niais nestling; ME an eias from a neias. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Hawk. A short-winged nestling hawk (sometimes taken and brought up by hand); such a hawk during training; eias hauk.
Associated quotations
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340:Halliwell)294 : If she be an eyas, thu most wasch it [meat] more clenner then thu doste to a brawnchere.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340:Halliwell)308 : Loke that he fle not tyl that he be clene enseymvd, whether he be mewyd other an eyas hawke.