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Talon vs Talion - What's the difference?

talon | talion |

As nouns the difference between talon and talion

is that talon is a sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal while talion is retaliation; retribution.

talon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
  • (architecture) 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.
    • (Knight)
  • In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.

    • Derived terms

    * taloned

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    talion

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Retaliation; retribution.
  • * 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
    • Simple talion may be fine for wartime, but politics between wars demands symmetry and a more elegant idea of justice, even to the point of masquerading, a bit decadently, as mercy.

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