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A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]

in. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

ich one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. "Our old home [England]." Hawthorne.

Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.

e bees and other insects, often larger than themselves, and suck their blood. Called also hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. [Colloq.]

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift.

he Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat. -- Humming-bird moth (Zoöl.), a hawk moth. See Hawk moth, under Hawk, the bird.

Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden.

Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.

ng over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

. A great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne.

or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.

ylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.

. Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er With infinite of pearls and finest gold. Fanshawe.

ized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts. The insidious whisper of the bad angel. Hawthorne. Insidious disease (Med.), a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.

reeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw.

most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.