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HAUT'ZENTHAL, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : fix miles fouth of Sonneberg. 
HAUZ HOR'MOZ, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Kerman : thirty leagues fouth of Sirgian. • 
HAU'ZEMBERG, a town of Germa-ny, in Bavaria, 
and bilhopric of Paffku : fix miles north-eafl of Paffau. 
HAW,/, [hag, Sax.] The berry and feed of the 
hawthorn.—Store of haws and hips portend cold winters. 
Bacon. —An excrefcence in the eye.—[J?aga, Sax. haw, 
Dan. a garden.] A.fmall piece of ground adjoining to a 
houfe ; as hemp-haw , or bean-haw, and inclofed for fuc.h 
like cultivation. But fir Edward Coke, in an ancient 
plea concerning Feverfham in'Kent, fays hawes are 
houfes. Co. Lit. 5. 
To HAW, v. n. [perhaps corrupted from hawk, or 
hack.~\ To fpeak flowly with frequent intermilfion and 
hefitation.—’Tis a great way ; but yet, after a little 
humming and hawing upon’t, he agreed to undertake 
the job. VEJlrange. 
HAW-FINCH. See the article Loxia. 
HAWES,/. In doomfday-book, houfes, dwellings. 
HAW'ES, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Severn, two miles below Newtown, in the county of 
Montgomery. 
HAW'ICK, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Roxburgh, on. the river Tiviot: thirty-two miles fouth- 
weft of Berwick, and thirty-three fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Edinburgh. 
HAW'ING, f. A fiownefs of fpeech ; a fpeech made 
with frequent hefitations. 
HAWK,/ \kabeg, Welfh ; hapoc, Sax. accipiter, Lat.]. 
A bird of prey, anciently ufed to catch other birds. For 
the natural hiftory and numerous fpecies, fee the article 
Falco, vol. vii. p. 183. 
Whence borne on liquid wing 
The founding culver fhoots; or where the hawk. 
High in the beetling cliffs, his aiery builds. Thomfon. 
[Hock, Wei fit. ] An effort to force phlegm up the throat. 
To HAWK, v. n. To fly hawks at fowls; to catch 
birds by meansof a hawk.—One follows ftudyand know¬ 
ledge, and another hawking and hunting. Locker. 
A falc’ner Henry is, when Emma hawks-. 
With her of tarfels and of lures he talks. Prior. 
To fly at; to attack on the wing: 
Whether upward to the moon they go, 
Or dream the winter out in caves below, 
Or hawk at flies elfewhere, concerns us not to know. 
Dry den. 
[Hock, Welfh.] To force up phlegm with a noife.— 
Come, a fong, without hawking or fpitting, or faying 
we are hoarfe, which are only the prologues to a bad 
voice. Skakefpeare. —To fell by,proclaiming-in the ftreets. 
[From hocke, Germ, a falefman’s pack.] 
His works were hawk'd in-every ftreet, 
But feldom rofe above a llieet. Swift. 
HAWKE (Edward), a gallant Englifh admiral, the 
fon of Edward Hawke, efq. barrilter at law. He was 
educated for the navy, and paffed through the fubordi- 
nate ftations, till ip 1734 lie became a poli-Gaptain. He 
firft diftinguifhed nimfelf in 1744, in the incomplete en¬ 
gagement between our admirals Matthews and Leliock, 
and the combined fleets of France and Spain, oft Toulon. 
On that occafion a Spanifh fliip of the line (the only ene¬ 
my’s veflel which yielded) liruck to him ; and he broke 
the line-of-battle to fuccour two Englifh fliips, for which 
a6t he incurred the fufpenfion of his commiflion, but it 
was molt honourably reftored to him. He was made a 
a rear-admiral of the white in 1747 ; and in October of 
that year, having been lent with a fquadron of fourteen 
fliips of the line to intercept a French Weft-India fleet, 
jie fell in with it under a convoy of nine fhips of the 
line, out of which, after an obffinate a&ion, he captured 
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feven. His fuccefs was rewarded with the knighthood 
of the Bath, and promotion to the vice-admiralty of the 
blue. On the renewal of the war in 1755, after the 
failure of admiral Byng in the Mediterranean, fir Ed¬ 
ward Hawke was fent thither with a powerful fleet, but 
arrived too late to fave Minorca. He, however, blocked 
up the enemy’s fleet in Toulon, and reftored the Eng¬ 
lifli fuperiority in that fea. In 1759, fir Edward dur¬ 
ing the whole fummer blocked up the harbour of Breft, 
where the French fleet under admiral Conflans lay, 
with a large equipment of tranfports intended for the 
invafion of England. In the beginning of November a 
ftorm drove him into Torbay, and in the mean time the 
French fleet got out. Hawke immediately fleered to 
the coaft of Britanny, and on November 20th' came in 
.fight of the enemy. The weather was tempeftuotis, the 
coaft full of rocks and fhoals, and Conflans kept as near 
as pofiible on the lee-fhore. The Englifli admiral, how¬ 
ever, refolved to purfue, and, notwithstanding the dan¬ 
ger of running aground, ordered the helmfman to lay 
him clofe to Conflans’ fliip. A bloody engagement en- 
fued, in which the approach of night alone faved the 
French from total deftrubtion. The refult was, that the 
French admiral-fliip and another were burnt, two were 
funk, and one taken, all of the line ; and feven more 
were obliged to take fhelter in the mouth of a fhallow 
river. The meditated invafion was thus entirely defeat¬ 
ed, and the French navy received a blow from which it 
never recovered during the remainder of the war. The 
gallantry of the Englifli admiral was rewarded with a 
penfion, and parliamentary thanks. He was raifed to 
the high office of vice-admiral of Great Britain in 1765, 
and in 1770'was placed at the head of the admiralty. 
I11 1776 he was created a peer of the realm by the ftyle 
of baron Hawke of Towton in Yorkfhire ; and thus' de- 
l'ervedly ennobled, he died in 1781. 
HAWKE, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Rockingham- county, New Hampfhire, diftant twenty- 
feven miles from Portfmouth, was incorporated in 1760, 
and contained, in 1790, 420 inhabitants. 
HAWKE’s BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of Labrador. 
Lat. 53. 10. N. Ion. 55. 50. W. Greenwich. 
HAWKE’s BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of the 
northernmoft ifland of New ‘Zealand, in the South Pa¬ 
cific Ocean. 
HAWKE’s BAY, a bay on the coaft of Weft Florida, 
weftward of the mouth'of Mobile-bay, between Pelican 
and Dauphin iflands.- There is a broad channel of ele¬ 
ven and twelve feet wafer, afterwards fafe anchorage in 
four fathoms, good holding ground, and fheltered from 
1110ft winds; on which account it is very convenient for 
fmall veffels. 
HAWKE’s HAR'BOUR, a harbour formed by an 
arm of Igornachoix Bay, Newfoundland Ifland. 
HAWKE’s I'SLAND, a fmall ifland near the eaft 
coaft of Labrador. Lat. 53. 10. N. Ion. 55. 30. W. 
Greenwich, 
HAW'KED, adj. Formed like a hawk’s bill.—Flat 
nofes feem comely unto the Moor, an aquiline or hawked 
one unto the Perfian, a large and prominent nofe unto 
the Roman. Brown. 
HAW'KER, f. [from hocke, Germ. ] One who fells 
his wares by proclaiming them in the ltreet; a pedlar : 
To grace this honour’d day, the queen proclaims, 
By herald hawkers, high heroic games 
She furamons all her fons ; an endlefs band 
Pours forth, and leaves unpeopled half the land. Pope. 
Hawkers were originally deceitful fellows, who went 
from place t<5 place buying and felling brafs, pewter, 
and other goods and merchandize, which aught to be 
uttered in open market; and the appellation feems to 
grow from their uncertain wandering, like perfons that 
with hawks feek their game where they can find it. 
They are mentioned in flat. 33 Hen. VIII. 8. c, 4. Hence 
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