hawse-bag 
hawse-bag (haz'bag), n. Naut., a conical can- 
vas bag filled with oakum, used in a head sea 
to stop the hawse-holes when the cables are 
bent. Also called jackass. 
hawse-block (haz'blok), n. Same as hawse- 
hawse-bolster (haz'bol'ster), . Naut., a 
curved oak timber, usually ironed, placed un- 
der a hawse-hole as a protection from chafing 
by the cable. 
hawse-boxt (haz'boks),n. The hawse-hole. 
hawse-buckler (haz'buk"ler), . A hinged 
shutter, generally of iron, placed on the out- 
side of a hawse-hole to close it when the cable 
is not bent. 
hawse-hole (haz'hol), n. A cylindrical hole in 
the bow of a ship through which a cable is 
Hawse-hole with Anchor in Place on Vessel-rail. 
passed. TO come through the hawse-holes, to com- 
mence a seaman's life as a common sailor: used in con- 
tradistinction to to come through, the cabin-window that 
is, to begin as an officer. 
hawse-hook (haz'huk), n. Naut., a breast-hook 
which crosses the hawse-timber above the up- 
per deck. 
hawse-piece (haz'pes), . One of the foremost 
timbers of a ship through which a hawse-hole 
passes. 
hawse-pipe (haz'pip), . An iron pipe fitted 
into a hawse-hole to prevent the wood from be- 
ing abraded Hawse-pipe bottom, a sea-bottom of 
clay or soft rock perforated by worms or other marine 
animals. Also called honeycomb bottom. 
hawse-plug (hAz'plug), n. A block of wood 
driven into a ship's hawse-pipe at sea, to pre- 
vent the ingress of water. Also called hawse- 
block. 
hawser (ha'zer), . [Formerly written halser, 
haitlser, halsier (as also halse); < OF. haulse- 
ree, < haulser, hausser, raise, lift, the E. hawser 
being practically from the corresponding E. 
verb hawse 1 , q. v. The sense suggests a con- 
nection with E. haul, hale 1 ; but this cannot be 
made out.] Naut., a cable ; especially, a small 
cable, or a large rope in size between a cable 
and a tow-line, used in warping, etc. 
Within, the waves in softer murmurs glide, 
And ships secure without their haters ride. 
Pop?, Odyssey, xiii. 
The anchor, slipp'd at need 
With haulser huge, abates their fearful speed. 
Hoole, tr. of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, xix. 
The friction of the hawsers was so great as nearly to 
cut through the bittheads, and, ultimately, to set them on 
flre. Parry, Admiral Parry, p. 148. 
hawser-laid (ha'zer-lad), a. Made of three 
small ropes laid up into one, as, formerly, small 
running rigging, shrouds, etc., or, now, cables 
and tow-lines. 
hawse-timber (haz'tim'ber), n. Naut., one of 
the upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each 
side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are 
cut. 
hawse-WOOd (haz'wud), n. Naut., a general 
name for the hawse-timbers. 
hawsing-iron (ha'zing-I"ern), n. A chisel used 
in calking. 
hawsing-mallet(ha'zing-mal' / et), n. A mallet 
or beetle used with chisels, called irons, in calk- 
ing. 
hawsomt, n. [G. hausen, sturgeon : see hausen.'] 
A sturgeon. 
They say that 
the kaivsom fish 
in the Danube 
has been taken 
twenty-one feet 
in length. 
Pocpdfe, Descrip- 
tion of the 
[East, II. ii. 
[251. 
hawthorn 
(ha'thorn), n. 
[< ME. hawe- 
thorn, hag- 
thorn, < AS. 
Hawthorn (Crafa&ts Oxyacantha). 
* 2 - branches with flowers and fruit; a, *, 
flower and fruit on larger scale i c, leaf. 
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thorn (= D. haagdoorn = MHO. hagedorn, G. 
hagedorn, hagdorn, hagendorn = Icel. hagthorn 
= Sw. Norw. hagtorn), (. AS. haga, E. haw, a 
hedged inclosure, + thorn, thorn: see feajc 1 and 
thorn. Cf. haythorn. Hence the proper name 
Hawthorn, Hawthorne, Hathorn.] A thorny 
shrub or small tree, Crata'gus Orynrantha, much 
used in hedges. It is found in the wild state through- 
out most of Europe, in northern Africa, and western Asia. 
It has been introduced into the United .States: a hedge 
was planted with it by George Washington at Mount Ver- 
non. It has stiff branches bearing strong thorns and deep- 
ly lobed or cut leaves. The fruit is the haw. The name 
is also applied to the genus Cratayus in general. See 
Crat<Kgus. Also hathorn, haythorn, and hedge-thorn. 
The hawthorn whitens; and the juicy groves 
Put forth their buds. Thomson, Spring, 1. 90. 
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, 
For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made. 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 13. 
Hawthorn china, a kind of Oriental porcelain usually 
classed as Chinese, though asserted by some to be from 
Japan. The decoration represents the flowering branches 
of a plum-tree without the leaves, reserved in white, the 
ground of dark blue being tilled in around it. Haw- 
thorn pattern, (a) A common decoration of Bow por- 
celain. (6) A decorative pattern used in some Oriental 
wares. See Hawthorn china. 
hawthorn-grosbeak (ha' thorn -gros'bek), n. 
The hawfinch. 
hawthorn-tree (ha'th6rn-tre), n. Same as 
hawthorn. 
It was a maide of my countre, 
As she came by a hathorne-tre, 
As full of flowers as might be seen, 
She merveld to se the tree so grene. 
The Hawthorn Tree (Child's Ballads, I. 312). 
hay 1 (ha), n. [< ME. hay, hey, heig, hay, also 
growing grass, < AS. hig, ONorth. heg, heig, 
hoeg, hay, also growing grass, = D. hooi = OHG. 
hewL houwe, MHG. hdu,nou, houwe. G. heu (hau, 
obs.) = Icel. hey = Sw. Dan. ho, hay, = Goth. 
hawi, hay, grass; prob. orig. grass cut or to be 
cut, < AS. hedwan, E. hew, etc., cut: see AeiC 1 .] 
Grass that has been cut; especially, grass cut 
and dried for use as fodder. 
He smote the stede, and rode in a-monge hem, and made 
of hem soche martire that the! lay vpon hepes in the 
feilde, as hey in a medowe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.\ ii. 199. 
Make us a bed o* green rushes, 
And cover it o'er wi 1 green hay. 
Lizzie Lindsay (Child's Ballads, IV. 71). 
When merry milkmaids click the latch, 
And rarely smells the new-mown hay. 
Tennyson, The Owl. 
Between hay and grass, too late for one thing or 
source of supply, and too soon for another. [Colloq,, 
U. S.J Camel's hay. Same as camel-grass. Neither 
hay nor grass, not exactly one thing or the other. [Col- 
loq., U. S.] Tame hay, hay made usually from foreign 
grasses, such as timothy, or from other forage-plants, as 
clover, lucerne, etc., which have been specially sown in 
meadows for the purpose. [Western U. S.] To look 
for a needle In a bottle of hay. See bottle^. To make 
hay. (a) To cut and cure grass for fodder. 
He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors 
of their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences ; 
took the horses to water. Irving, Sleepy Hollow. 
(6) To throw things into confusion ; scatter everything 
about in disorder. 
O, father, how you are making hay of my things ! 
Miss Edgeworth, Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, i. 2. 
Furniture, crockery, fender, fire-irons lay in one vast 
heap of broken confusion in the corner of the room. . . . 
The fellows were mad with fighting too. I wish they 
hadn't come here and made hay afterwards. 
H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, vii. 
To make hay while the sun shines, to seize the favor- 
able opportunity, as must be done with reference to sun- 
shine in hay-making. Wild hay, hay made from the na- 
tive or indigenous grasses of any country. [Western U. 8.] 
hay 1 (ha), v. [< hayi, .] I. trans. 1. To 
make hay of ; convert into hay. 
The bunch-grass matures in the field, and is hayed uncut. 
Amer. Commonwealths, Oregon, p. 300. 
2. To feed with hay ; give hay to. 
After some hours the postillion stopped before a house 
on the Swedish bank to hay his horses. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 168. 
II. intrans. To cut and dry or cure grass for 
use as fodder. 
hay 2 t (ha), n. [< ME. haye, heye, < AS. hege, a 
hedge, fence, < haga, a hedge, > E. haw 1 : see 
ftaroi and hedge."] 1. A hedge. 
As fast I bisiede and wolde fayne 
Have passed the hay, if I myght 
Have geten ynne. Rom. of the Rose, L 2971. 
Thise holtis and thise hayis, 
That ban in wynter dede ben and drye, 
Revesten hem in greene, when that May is. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 351. 
2. A net set round the haunt of an animal. 
It were not meet to send a huntsman out 
Into the woods with net, with gin or hay. 
John Dennys (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 164). 
haydegye 
Subsequently, in 1503, a penalty of the same amount 
was imposed upon any person keeping deer hay*, or buck- 
stalls, unless he had a park, chase, or forest. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, III. 271. 
3. An inclosure; a haw. 4. [Cf. heyrieguy.] 
A round country-dance ; a dance in a ring. 
Hayes, jigges, and roundelayes. 
Martin's Month's Minde (15S9). (BalliwM.) 
With their winding ham, 
Active and antic dances, to delight 
Your frolic eyes. 
Chapman, Widow's Tears, iv. 1. 
To dance the hay, to dance in a ring ; hence, to move 
about briskly. 
Shall we goe daunce the hay? 
Never pipe could ever play 
Better shepheard's roundelay. 
England's Helicon, p. 228. (Halliwell.) 
I will play on the tabor to the worthies, and let them 
dance the hay. Shak., L. L. L., v. 1. 
Mary is busied about many things, is dancing the hays 
between three houses. Walpole, Letters, II. 122. 
hay 2 t (ha), v. i. [< hay 2 , n., 2.] To lay snares 
for rabbits. 
Prithee, content thyself. 
We shall scout here, as though we went A-haying. 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, I. 3. 
hay 3 (ha), interj. Same as hey 1 . 
hay 4 t (ha). [It. hat, you have it, 2d pers. sing, 
pres. ind. of avere, < L. habere, have : see habit, 
have. Cf. L. habet, he has it, an exclamation 
used when a gladiator was wounded.] In fen- 
cing : (a) An exclamation used when one's op- 
ponent is hit. 
0, it must be done like lightning, hay ! 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 5. 
(6) A home thrust. 
He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, 
and proportion. ... Ah, the immortal passado ! the punc- 
to reversu ! the hay! Shak., R. and .1. . ii. 4. 
haya (ha'ya), n. [African.] An arrow-poison 
used on the western coast of Africa, it seems to 
have a local analgetic effect, somewhat like that of cocaine, 
when absorbed from a mucous surface or injected hypo- 
dermically. There Is evidence that its action depends at 
least in part upon the presence in it of the bark or other 
parts of Erythrophloeum Quineense. 
hay-asthma (ha'asf'ma), . Same as haij- 
fever. 
I escaped from the hay-asthma with a visit of one month. 
Southey, Letters. 
hay-bacillus (ha'ba-siKus), n. Bacillus sub- 
tilis: so called because it is abundantly ob- 
tained from infusions of hay. See Bacillus, 3. 
hay-band (ha'band), . A band with which a 
bundle of hay is bound. 
hay-bird (ha'berd), n. 1. A small bird, as a 
warbler or flycatcher, which uses hay in build- 
ing its nest. The name is variously applied, as to the 
whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea, the European blackcap, S. 
atricapilla, and other species of the same genus in its 
most restricted sense ; to the willow-warbler, Phyllogco- 
pus trochilus, the wood-warbler, P. sibUatrix, and chiff- 
chaff, P. rufvs; to the spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa gri- 
sola, etc. [Eng.] 
2. The pectoral sandpiper, or grass-snipe, Trin- 
ga maculata. [New Jersey, U. S.] 
tiaybote (ha'bot), n. [< hau%, hedge, + bootl, 
ME. bate, fine, reparation.] In Eng. law: (a) 
A fine for damaging or breaking fences. (6) 
Formerly, an allowance of wood to a tenant for 
repairing hedges or fences ; hedgebote. 
hay-cap (ha'kap), n. A canvas cover or hood 
placed over a cock of hay to protect it from 
rain. 
hay-car (ha'kar), n. On American railroads, a 
box-car for carrying baled hay. Car-Builder's 
Diet. 
hay-cart (ha'kart), n. A hay-wagon or -wain. 
We met, however, with great numbers of travellers, 
mostly farmers with laden hay-carts. 
Ii. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 412. 
haycock (ha'kok), . A small conical pile or 
heap of hay thrown up in a hay-field while the 
hay is being cured or is awaiting removal to a 
barn. 
If the earlier season lead 
To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 
Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 90. 
As they rake the green-appearing ground, 
And drive the dusky wave along the mead, 
The russet hay-cock rises thick behind, 
In order gay. Thomson, Summer, 1. 367. 
hay -cold (ha'kold), n. Same as hay-fever. 
hay-cromet, A hay-rake. Davies. 
They fell downe on their mary-bones, and lift up their 
hay-cromes unto him. 
Sashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 166). 
hay-cutter (ha'kuf'er), n. A machine for cut- 
ting hay into small pieces for use as food for 
cattle. 
haydegyet, haydegeet, etc., w. See heyday- 
guise. 
