Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PER'E-GRINE
PER'E-GRIN-A-TORPER-E-GRIN'I-TY
PER'E-GRINE, a. [L. peregrinus.]
Foreign; not native. [Little used.] – Bacon. Peregrine falcon, a species of hawk, the black hawk or falcon, found in America and in Asia, and which wanders in summer to the Arctic circle. – Pennant.
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