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Definition of Eagle

Eagle

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.

The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.

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Eagle Quotations

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
Ken Blanchard

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
William J. Clinton

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.
Rick Perry

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.
Kerry King

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
William Bartram

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
Frederick Reines

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.
Lloyd Bentsen

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
Peter Scott

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
Link Wray

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Eagle Translations

eagle in Afrikaans is arend
eagle in Dutch is arend, adelaar
eagle in Finnish is kotka
eagle in French is aigle
eagle in German is Adler {m}
eagle in Hungarian is sas
eagle in Latin is aquila

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