per|e|grine

per|e|grine «PEHR uh grihn, -gryn, -green», noun, adjective.

–n.

1. a large, swift, powerful falcon, the species preferred for falconry. The American variety is the duck hawk. »

Out of the reeds, like an arrow, shot the peregrine (Charles Kingsley).

2. a foreign visitor in a country; resident who is not a citizen.

–adj.

1. not native; foreign.

2. outlandish; strange.

3. being upon a pilgrimage; traveling abroad: »

the passage now presents no hindrance To the spirit unappeased and peregrine Between two worlds (T. S. Eliot).

4. Astrology. (of a planet) so situated in the zodiac that it has none of its essential dignities.

╂[< Latin peregrīnus from foreign parts < peregrē, adverb, abroad, or erager, noun, one who has gone through (lands) < per- outside + ager (Romanus) the (Roman) territory. See etym. of doublet pilgrim. (Cf. ↑pilgrim)]