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The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness. An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education. Chesterfield.

igulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, hawkweed, etc.

Loobylike; awkward. Fuller.

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. Sir P. Sidney.

Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. -- Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"*ish*ness, n.

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

Clumsily; awkwardly. Dryden.

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]

hat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks. Shak.

The sparrow hawk.

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness, n.

To tame, as a hawk. [R.] Shak.

ate bird; also applied to the skua gulls, and to the wandering albatross. -- Man-of-war hawk (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Man-of-war's man, a sailor serving in a ship of war. -- Portuguese man-of-war (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Physalia. See Physalia.

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively. Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

e low S. juncea is a common component of salt hay. -- Marsh harrier (Zoöl.), a European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); -- called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, puttock. -- Marsh hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk or harrier (Circus cyaneus), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above,…

A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]

A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1. Milman.

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.