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o put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke. -- To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. -- To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. -- To put ove…

ne of several American ground pigeons belonging to Geotrygon and allied genera. -- Quail hawk (Zoöl.), the New Zealand sparrow hawk (Hieracidea Novæ-Hollandiæ). -- Quail pipe. See Quail call, above. -- Quail snipe (Zoöl.), the dowitcher, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin snipe, and brown snipe. -- Sea qua…

o tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney.

The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead quarry." Spenser. The wily quarry shunned the shock. Sir W. Scott.

A trifle; a kickshaw. Donne.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick. Evelyn.

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

To recover to the fist, as a hawk. [Obs.]

rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.

To drive or beat back; to repulse. Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back. Spenser.

righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. Chaucer.

Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.

The red-tailed hawk.

ton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

ave a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.

long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.

Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. Hawthorne.