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The fishhawk.

ehavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

tset of a political journey." Burke. Giving a proper direction to this outset of life. J. Hawes.

The stomach of a hawk. Ainsworth.

d (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.

n Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. [Written also pacha.]

other; migratory; -- said especially of birds "Birds of passage." Longfellow. -- Passage hawk, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.

eyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

Hawking; acting as a peddler.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

trating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.

head and cheeks, white beneath, barred with black below the throat. Called also peregrine hawk, duck hawk, game hawk, and great-footed hawk.

An optical glass; a telescope. [Obs.] Crashaw.

Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.