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To hunt with a hawk. [Obs.] Bacon. To fly a kite (Com.), to raise money on commercial notes. [Cant or Slang]

To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.

The female of a hawk or falcon.

orwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham.…

To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. Johnson.

An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.]

seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

earnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.

f the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. -- Gnat flower, the bee flower. -- Gnat hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- called also gnat owl. -- Gnat snapper (Zoöl.), a bird that catches gnats. -- Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. Matt. xxiii. 24.

goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .

he young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among his best characteristics. Hawthorne. -- Good people. See Good folk (above). -- Good speed, good luck; good success; godspeed; -- an old form of wishing success. See Speed. -- Good turn, an act of kidness; a favor. -- Good will. (a) Benevolence; well wis…

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

One of the small feathers of a hawk.