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To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

The kestrel. [Prov. Eng.]

A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

ngly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot. Halliwell. Bred to arms, educated to the profession of a soldier. -- In arms, armed for war; in a state of hostility. -- Small arms, portable firearms known as muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols, etc. -- A stand of arms, a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayo…

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. "Kites that bait and beat." Shak.

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] Bacon.

To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. Swift.

A kind of hawk. [Obs.] Halliwell.