Noun

1. The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
   • 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=619143512&textreg=1&query=+falconry&id=ThoWald

     ...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport.