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idopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

The rise of a hawk after prey. Sir P. Sidney.

lor and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel. -- Mouse hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk that devours mice. (b) The hawk owl; -- called also mouse owl. -- Mouse lemur (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleus, found in Madagascar. -- Mouse piece (Cooke…

A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella). Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C. viscosum). -- Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium Thaliana). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name.

The male of the sparrow hawk.

n, exercise, or introduction into service. The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

e's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous] I willingly return to my muttons. H. R. Haweis.

nown; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

rer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne.

kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person. [Obs.]

wer lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.

The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crashaw.

racterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

, what one would have well done, one should do one's self. It was well worth one's while. Hawthorne. Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can. G. Eliot.

A beautiful bird (Moho nobilis) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.

harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. -- Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse. -- Open hearth (Metal.), the shallow hearth of a reverberatory furnace. -- Open-hearth furnace, a reverberatory furnace;…

gns bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.

g ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. Swift. He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.

Approved; conventional. He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner. H. R. Haweis.