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deed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

ankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

Dr. T. Dwight. Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God. J. Hawes.

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ

The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

er. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

te place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne.

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

ally, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser.

lesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Sh…

The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.

tion; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.