talon /ˈtælən/ noun6 •A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.and now doth gastly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life. — 1587 •The remaining stock of undealt cards. •(historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up. •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. •One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. formstalons