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oo light. Shak. Specimens of New England humor laboriously light and lamentably mirthful. Hawthorne.

Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala dress. Hawthorne.

ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, hawkweed, etc.

The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.

linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. Piers Plowman.

g or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." Crashaw.

brious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

what resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks. Shak.

The sparrow hawk.

eninsula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.

A female malefactor. Hawthorne.

ome malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.

To tame, as a hawk. [R.] Shak.

gate bird; also applied to the skua gulls, and to the wandering albatross. -- Man-of-war hawk (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Man-of-war's man, a sailor serving in a ship of war. -- Portuguese man-of-war (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Physalia. See Physalia.

f the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively. Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

Having a margin. Hawthorne.

he low S. juncea is a common component of salt hay. -- Marsh harrier (Zoöl.), a European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); -- called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, puttock. -- Marsh hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk or harrier (Circus cyaneus), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above…

The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.

The hawthorn.