Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TAL'ON, n. [Fr. and Sp. talon, the heel, that is, a shoot or protuberance. See Tall.]

1. The claw of a fowl. Bacon.
2. In architecture, a kind of molding, concave at the bottom, and convex at the top. When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon. It is usually called by workmen an ogee, or O G, and by authors an upright or inverted cymatium. Cyc.