Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AC-CIP'I-TER, n. [L. ad and capio, to seize.]

1. A name given to a fish, the Milvus or Lucerna, a species of Trigla. – Cyc.
2. In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls. The Accipiters have a hooked bill, the superior mandible, near the base, being extended on each side beyond the inferior. The genera are the Vultur, the Falco or hawk, and the Strix or owl.