284 HAWK 



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HAWFINCH, or GROSBEAK (see Finch). 



HAWK. — An t-eun fionn (hen-harrier); Aracos (Etr. Celt.); 

 Bainspeireag, spiorag or spireag, bealbhun or beilbhean or beilea- 

 maii-ruadh, bod-chearc, breid-air-toin (ringtail) ; Cabar, cabhar, 

 caubar (Old Ir.), clanihan-fionn or croman loin or Inch (marsh- 

 harrier, mouse hawk), clamhan-gearr or gearra-chlanihan (broad), 

 crom-nan-cearc, cubhar, cufar (Old Ir.) ; Darcan, dt- arcan (sparrow), 

 Erreg-lannerich (falcon) ; Fionn (hen-harrier) ; Gabhar, glas or 

 gos-sheobhag ; Hara cos (Etr. Celt.); Lamhraidh, lamhraig, lamh- 

 ruidh (alien) ; Meirneal (merlin — Lat. merula), meir illiun (gos — Ir.) 

 mona or munabhuachaill (alien) ; Puthaig (marsh-harrier) ; Uuadhan- 

 aille (sparrow) ; Seabhac, seabhach (Ir.), seabhag, seig, seigh, 

 seighen, seobhag, seog, seothag, seothig, etc. (sparrow), spearag, 

 speireag, speirsheog, spiorag, spiorsag, spireag, spirseog (sparrow), 

 spuillire-buidhe (marsh-harrier). 



Aichee, akee, alet (falcon), alman, aspere (sparrow — lit. a spere 

 hawk) ; Bawrell (male), bawret, blood, blue gled Isaac kite merlin 

 or sleeves (hen-harrier), bluey, bockerel (long-winged), bog-gled, 

 boughrell, brown, brown-gled ; Carvist (young), castrell (cowardly), 

 eland, cres, cress, kress or cris-hawk (kestrel) ; Duck ; Eglehorne, 

 emerlon (fern, merlin — Chaucer), entermewer (Skinner), eyas (young 

 or nestling) ; Falcon (female), fieldy, flein-gall, furze kite ; Gastrel, 

 gleg (sparrow), goose, gos, gos-hafuc, goshal (A. S.), grey Peter 

 (honey buzzard) ; Haggard (Shakesp.), harpy, harrier, harrower, 

 hauk, haveke, heafuc, hedgey, hen-driver or harrier, hobby (merlin), 

 honey or moor buzzard, hostour, hover ; Jack (male) ; Kattabella 

 or kattabelly, keelie (young), kestrel, kistress (Blome) ; Laneret 

 (fem.), lanior (male), lannard (peregrine — male); Maalin, marlin, 

 marlion, marsh-harrier, martelet, martin, martinet (ringtail), merlin, 

 mittale, mittan, mittane, mitten, mus-hafoc, musket, muskett, 

 muskytt (male — A. S.) ; Nias (young), nine-murder (a kind of 

 — Cotgrave) ; Owl ; Peerie (merlin — fem.), peregrine (wandering), 

 pot-hawk ; Ringtail ; Seagull, smokey, smotty, snipe, spar, 

 sparrow, spear-hafoc, sperk-halk, spowey, spur (sparrow), 

 stanchel, starbird, starnel (base), stein gale, stongall swallow ; 

 Talenter (Middleton), tercell (gos) ; Vanner, varmer (large — I. of 

 Wight), white, white-aboon-glade or gled, white kite, windaiffer 

 bibber, fanner, hover or sucker. 



From Teut. " hab," to seize, hold ; hobby, from Old French 

 " hobei," to stir, to move from place to place — lit., a restless one. 



Much lore exists, and many books have been written about 

 hawks and hawking (helfa). Hawks are frequently referred to in 

 Ossian's poems, and other collections of Celtic poetry, iyiter alia, 

 Ossian makes one of the Scandinavian chiefs say, "the hawks rush 



