hawk-billed 
hawk-billed (hak'bild), a. Having a bill or 
beak like or likened to a hawk's: as, a Innrl,-- 
billcd turtle. 
hawk-bit (hak'bit), n. A plant of the genus 
LeontnilnH, natural order Compositw, related to 
the ha wk weed and dandelion. The best-known spe- 
cies is L. autumnale, called the fall dandelion, which has 
become naturalized in the United States from Europe. (See 
Leontodon.) The name has also been improperly applied to 
the species of Hieracium, in place of hawkweed. 
hawk-boy (hak'boi), n. An assistant to a plas- 
terer, who supplies him with plaster or mortar, 
placing it upon the hawk. 
hawk-eagle (h&k'e'gl), n. A bird of the genus 
Spizaetus ; one of certain crested hawks. There 
are numerous species, the most typical of which are South 
American, as S. ornatus, S. bellieosus, etc. 
hawkedt (hakt), a. Crooked; curving like a 
hawk's bill. 
Flat noses seem comely unto the Moor, an aquiline or 
hawked one unto the Persians. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 11. 
hawker 1 (ha'ker), n. [< ME. *hawkere, < AS. 
hafecere (once) (= MLG. heveker), a hawker, 
falconer, < /to/be, hafec, hawk: see hawk 1 and 
-er 1 .] 1. One who hawks, or pursues the sport 
of hawking ; a falconer. 
Hankers and hunters, dronkards, . . . having no other 
god but their belly. Hannar, tr. of Beza's Sermons, p. 334. 
2. [Of. yacht, lit. a chaser, hunter (strictly a 
chase, hunt).] A sloop-rigged vessel. 
hawker 2 (ha'ker), n. [Also dial, liocker; < D. 
heuker = G. liocker, liocker, a retailer, = Dan. 
lioker. a huckster, chandler, = Sw. hokare, a 
chandler, cheesemonger : see further under 
huckster.] One who offers goods for sale by out- 
cry in the street ; one who travels about selling 
small wares; a peddler; a packman. 
We must be teased with perpetual hawkers of strange 
and wonderful things. Swift, Bickerstaff Papers. 
The hau-kerx who cried Tory pamphlets and broadsides 
through the streets were at once sent to the House of Cor- 
rection. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., ii. 
hawker' 2 (ha ' ker), v. t. [< hawker^, .] To 
play the hawker; peddle. [Rare.] 
But was implacable and awkward 
To all that interloped and hawkered. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. iii. 620. 
hawkey 1 (ha'ki), . Same as hockey 1 . 
hawkey 2 (ha'ki), n. Same as hockey 2 . 
hawkey 3 , hawkie (ha'ki), n. [Sc. (cf. hawkit, 
white-faced, as a cow, also stupid) ; origin ob- 
scure.] 1. A cow; specifically, a black and 
white cow ; more especially, a cow of a dark 
color with a white stripe on the face. 
The soupe their only hawkie does afford, 
That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cud. 
Burns, Cottar's Saturday Night. 
2. A stupid fellow ; a clown. 
Hawkeye (hak'I), n. An inhabitant or a na- 
tive of the State of Iowa, which is popularly 
called the "Hawkeye State": said to be so 
called from the name of an Indian chief who 
once lived in that region. [Colloq., U. S.] 
hawk-eyed (hak'Id), a. Having acute vision, 
like that of a hawk ; having bold, piercing eyes. 
He entered through a dim door-way, and saw a hawk- 
eyed woman, rough-headed and unwashed, cheapening a 
hungry girl's last bit of ftnery. 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xix. 
hawk-fly (hak'fll), n. A dipterous insect of 
the family Asilidce; one of numerous hornet- 
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peds by means of trained birds of the falcon 
kind, generically called hawks; falconry. 
Dost thou love haii-kiny! thou hast hawks will soar 
Above the morning lark. Shak., T. of the S., Ind., ii. 
hawking-glove (ha'king-gluv), n. A glove 
used in falconry, especially that worn on the 
left hand, upon which the hawk is earned, and 
which protects the hand from the claws of the 
bird. 
hawking-polet (ha'king-pol), . A staff used 
in falconry. 
Now during that ninth yeare . . . these canes prove 
so bigge and strong withall that they serve for hawking- 
poles, and fowlers pearches. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvl. 36. 
hawking-poucht (ha'klng-pouch), re. A bag 
or almoner worn by a falconer, or by a man 
or woman engaged in the sport of hawking. 
They were large enough to serve upon occasion as game- 
bags, but much of their space was taken up with little 
pockets to contain the bells, jesses, lure, and other requi- 
sites for hawking. 
hawkish (ha'kish),a. [< hawk 1 + -ish 1 .'] Per- 
taining to or resembling a hawk; rapacious; 
fierce. 
My learned friends ! most swift and sharp are you ; of 
temper most accipitral. hawkish, aquiline. 
Carlyle, Misc., IV. 245. 
She must have been very beautiful as a young girl, but 
was now too fierce and hawkish looking. 
H. Kingsley, Oeoffry Hamlyn, vi. 
hawkit (ha/kit), a. [Sc. : see hawkeyS,] 1. 
Having a white face : applied to cattle. 
He maid a hundreth nolt [cattle] all hawkit. 
Dunbar, Bannatyne Poems, p. 22. 
2. Foolish; silly. 
hawk-moth (hak'mSth), n. A nocturnal lepi- 
dopterous or heterocerous insect of the fam- 
ily Sphingidw, in a broad sense ; a sphinx-moth 
Hawk-moth (.Sphinx c. 
a), one half natural size. 
or sphinx: so called from the mode of flight, 
which is likened to the hovering or "wind- 
hovering" of a hawk. The species are numer- 
ous, and are referred to several modern fami- 
lies and many genera Death's-head hawk-moth. 
See death's-heail. Elephant hawk-moth, a name of the 
Metopsilus elpenor. Humming-bird hawk-moth, Ma- 
crofftossa stellalarum, one of the most beautiful of the di- 
urnal species of hawk-moths, and remarkable for the loud- 
ness of the sound which its wings produce. When feed- 
ing it inserts its long proboscis into the cups of even the 
narrowest tubular flowers. Small elephant hawk- 
moth, Metopsilus procellus. 
hawk-nosed (hak'nozd), a. Having a nose re- 
sembling the beak of a hawk. 
hawknut (hak'nut), n. A tuber of an umbel- 
liferous plant, Conopodium denudatum (Bunium 
flexuosum), a native of western Europe and the 
British isles; also, the plant itself. The tubers 
are aromatic and sweetish, though somewhat acrid when 
raw; when boiled or roasted they become quite palata- 
ble, and resemble chestnuts in taste, whence they are 
called earth-chestnuts. Several other names are applied 
to them, such as earthnut, hognut, pignut, and kippernut. 
See Bunium. 
hawk-owl (hak'oul), n. 1. The day-owl, Sur- 
nia ulula or Ulula funerea : so called from its 
diurnal habits and notable rapacity. It is a rather 
small owl, without plumicorns, with the facial disk very 
Hawle-fly, or Missouri Bee-killer {Proctacanthus milffrtf), 
natural size. 
flies or robber-flies : so called from their preda- 
ceous habits and swiftness of flight. The adults 
prey on other insects and are on the whole beneficial, but 
some species destroy honey-bees. The larva; live under 
ground and are probably phytophagous. Proctacanthus 
milberti is the Missouri bee-killer ; it also preys on the 
Rocky Mountain locust and the cotton-worm. 
hawkie, . See hawkey*. 
hawking (ha'kiug), n. [Verbal n. of hawk*, v.~\ 
The sport of capturing birds and small quadru- 
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Hawk-owl (Surnia ulula}. 
hawse 
imperfect, the tail long anil frraduated, and the plumage 
I throughout. It inhabits the northern parts of 
Europe, Asia, and America. 
2. The short-eared owl. Strix braehyotus or Asia 
aceipitriinis. 3. The harfang or great snowy 
owl, Nyctea nivea. 
hawk-parrot (hak'par"pt), n. A parrot of the 
genus Deroptyus, as I), coronattts or accipitrimis, 
the crested hawk-parrot of the Amazon. See 
cut under Deropti/nx. 
hawk's-beard (haks'berd), . A plant of the 
genus Crepis, allied to the hawkweeds and the 
dandelion. A few species, as Crepis rubra, are 
cultivated. See Crepis. 
hawk's-bill (haks'bil), . 1. Same as hawk- 
bill, 1. 2. The catch or detent controlling the 
striking-movement of a clock. 
hawk's-eye (haks'I), n. A kind of plover, (a) 
The golden plover. O. Edwards, 1750. (6) The black- 
bellied plover. Alex. Wilson. 
hawk-swallow (hak'swol"6), n. The common 
black swift of Europe, Cypselus apus : so called 
from its hawking for insects on the wing. See 
cut under Cypselus. [Local, Eng.] 
hawkweed (hak'wed), n. [< hawk 1 + weed. Cf. 
AS. hafoc-wyrt, E. as if *hawkwort, supposed to 
be hawkweed.] 1. A plant of the genus Hiera- 
cium, natural order Composite, suborder Ligti- 
liflora; (Cichoriacea;), or lettuce family, a very 
large genus, especially numerous on the con- 
tinent of Europe. 2. A species of Senecio, 
S. hieracifolivs.' See Senecio. 
ha Win 1 (ham), . Same as halm. 
hawm 2 (ham), v. i. [E. dial., also written haum; 
origin obscure.] To lounge; loiter; loaf. 
Guzzlin' an' soakin' an' smoiikin' an' hauiniri about i' the 
laanes. Tennyson, Northern Cobbler. 
hawmedt, ft* [< hawm 1 , = halm, + -ed"2; so call- 
ed in allusion to the frequently crooked stalks 
of jointed plants, as the cereals.] Bandy. 
Dories. 
The Devils of Crowland with their crimp shoulders, side 
and gor-bellies, crooked and hawmed legges. 
Holland, tr. of Camden's Britain, p. 530. 
hawm-leggedt, a. Bandy-legged. Nares. 
That is haume-leaaed, legges turned outward, as some 
say. that hath a paire of left legges, [L.] valgus. 
Withals, Diet. (ed. 1608), p. 286. 
hawse 1 (haz), . [Earlier spelling liaise : see 
halse 2 .'] 1. That part of a vessel's bow where 
the holes for her cables to pass through are 
cut : now used chiefly in phrases describing the 
condition of a vessel's chains when she is 
moored with both starboard and port anchors 
down. Thus, the hawse is dear when both chains lead 
direct to their respective anchors ; when the ship brings 
a strain on both chains, one on each bow, the hawse is said 
to be open, and if the chains are crossed or twisted to- 
gether, the hawse is said to befoul. 
2. The space between the ship and her an- 
chors: as, he was anchored in our hawse; the 
brig fell foul of our hawse, etc. 
"There are mischief-makers behind." "Ay? just you 
tell me who they are ; I'll teach them to come across my 
hawse." C. lieade, Love me Little, ix. 
"Sail ho 1 " was cried again, and we made another sail, 
broad on our weather bow, and steering athwart our 
hawse. It. H. Dana, Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 18. 
Athwart hawse. See at hwart. Cross In the hawse. 
See crossi, n. Elbow in the hawse. See etbow.To 
freshen the hawse, to veer out or heave in a short 
length of cable (a few feet) in order that a new portion 
may receive the chafe of the hawse-pipe : an expression 
formerly employed when hemp cables were in use. To 
moor with an open hawse, to lay out the anchors in a 
line at right angles with the prevailing wind. 
hawse 2 t, ' * [Early mod. E., also written 
halse; < OF. liaulser, hausser, raise, heave up, 
lift up, advance, earlier OF. haueer, haucier, 
hauchier, F. hausser, raise, lift, = Pr. ausar, al- 
sar = Sp. alzar, raise, lift, etc. (alzar velas, set 
the sails), = It. alzare, raise, lift, etc. (alzare 
le vele, set the sails), < L. as if "altiare, < altus, 
high : see limit 1 , alt, altitude, etc. ; and cf . hausse. 
In the naut. sense (in quot. from Grafton), re- 
ferred by some to Icel. halsa (segl), 'clue up' (a 
sail) (see halse 2 ), but this is a different thing 
from 'hoisting' sail, for which the Icel. terms 
are vinda. draga, setja upp (segl), etc. Not con- 
nected with hoisc or hoist, q. v.] To raise. 
Euery thing was hawsed aboue the mesure ; amerceu- 
ietes were turned into fines, fines into ransomes. 
Sir T. More, Works, p. 62. 
He wayed vp his ancors, and halsed vp his sayles. 
Orafton, Chron. Rich. III., an. 3. 
hawse 2 t, [ME.; cf. hawse" 2 , r.] Exaltation. 
Alwais to labour that iournay, 
Puttyng my hole hert, strength, mynde, and thought ay 
To your honour, hawse, and encrese also. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 498. 
hawse 3 (haz), n. A Scotch form of halse 1 . 
