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r in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.

of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

t of a globular shape aud sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.

A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

A fury; a she-monster. Grashaw.

ld or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] Shak

See Hawser. Pope.

A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus ærunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus). Harrier hawk(Micrastur.

Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow.

n used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon. [Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc.] Chaucer. Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray.

Hawthorn. R. Scot.

Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. In many an hour of danger and heartquake. Hawthorne.

confusion." Addison. An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. Hawthorne.

A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.

A heronshaw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

loyed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.

To hawk or peddle provisions.