talon

A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.

and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life.

It may be tried also whether birds may not have something done to them when they are young , whereby they may be made to have greater or longer bills , or greater and longer talons ?

One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)

The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

The locks were constructed with two or three levers, and sometimes with a common tumbler. The talon is the secret; for after locking the bolt out, the key is turned round again quietly to catch the nib and force the talon up

The remaining stock of undealt cards.

A surname transferred from the nickname.

A male given name from English of modern usage.

'Very well, I shall call you Talon from now on. What does the name mean, in the tongue of the small folk?' 'It is a claw, like that found on a hawk,' Talon said.