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, Fox, etc. -- Sparrow bill, a small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable. -- Sparrow hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European hawk (Accipiter nisus) or any of the allied species. (b) A small American falcon (Falco sparverius). (c) The Australian collared sparrow hawk (Accipiter torquatus).

oldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society. Hawthorne.

er out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself. Hawthorne. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell. Keble.

n art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.

(Zoöl.), a common American hake (Phycis tenuis); -- called also white hake. -- Squirrel hawk (Zoöl.), any rough-legged hawk; especially, the California species Archibuteo ferrugineus. -- Squirrel monkey. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small, soft-haired South American monkeys of the genus Calithrix. They…

Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry. [Obs.]

The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.] With what wing the staniel checks at it. Shak.

hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.

Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

ill the passions. Shak. Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me. Hawthorne.

A distemper in hawks.

To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Milton.

deportment. Shak. She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne.

f a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.

ddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. "I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in." Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing. -- To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. "To assert this is to strike in wit…

A stem; a trunk. [Obs.] Seest not this same hawthorn stud Spenser.

Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult. "Studied magnificence." Hawthorne.

A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. "His cheery little study." Hawthorne.

morous, is merely witty. Coleridge. The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's. Hawthorne.

pe. Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind. Hawthorne.