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See Pasha.

To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!" The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. Sir W. Scott.

A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. [Sailor's cant, U.S.]

A jager gull.

ll wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Burns. Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw. Chaucer. The green shaws, the merry green woods. Howitt.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.

fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders. India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. -- Shawl goat (Zoöl.), the Cashmere goat.

A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

The sparrow hawk. [Prov. Eng.]

The quinnat salmon. [Local, U.S.]

melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

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

The kestrel. [Prov. Eng.]

An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district. [Scot.] Jamieson. Sir W. Scott.

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

Abeyance. [R.] Hawthorne.

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.