in falconry, a device of leather, in the shape of two wings, stuck with feathers, and baited with a piece of flesh, to call back a hawk when at a considerable distance.

LUXE, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Saone, in France, extending over 881 square miles. It is divided into ten cantons, and these again into 211 communes, containing 118,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Oignon, in a district woody and mountainous, in which are numerous mines of coal. It contains 430 houses, and 2420 inhabitants.