a. Also 7 ta(l)lented. [f. TALON sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with talons.

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1611.  Cotgr., Empieté, pawed, pounced, clawed, talented.

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1611.  Bible, Jer. xii. 9. A speckled [marg. tallented] bird.

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1706.  Watts, Horæ Lyr., II. To Mitio, I. 119. A speedier prey To talon’d faulcons.

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1838.  S. Bellamy, Betrayal, 164. One talon’d hand appear’d.

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1840.  Carlyle, Heroes, v. (1858), 315. As if you should overturn the tree, and … show us ugly taloned roots turned-up into the air.

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  comb.  184[?].  ‘Eva,’ Sir Cahir O’Doherty, iv., in Poems (1877).

        The toil and the danger are braved all alone,
By the fierce-taloned falcon of old Inishowen.

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