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To recover to the fist, as a hawk. [Obs.]

ide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.

To drive or beat back; to repulse. Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back. Spenser.

To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. Chaucer.

Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.

The red-tailed hawk.

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird. rough-legged hawk. (Zoöl.) See Roughleg.

Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.

A kind of hood for a hawk.

e stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights. A canting, mawkish play . . . had an immense run. Macaulay.

Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." Spenser.

A disease in a hawk. Ainsworth. Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel. -- Wild rye (Bot.), any plant of the genus Elymus, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.

The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.

One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.

To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. "A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn.

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.

To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.

One who plays awkwardly on a violin.

To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. Scratch out a pamphlet." Swift.