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A male hawk. See Tercel.

small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay." Cowper.

The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.

A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet. Chaucer.

A small male hawk. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.

One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

ttened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo. [Written also thaar, and tahr.]

Producing females only; -- said of certain female insects.

s as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton.

Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright- colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.

An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.

A female cat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit.

The female of the tiger. Holland.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. Shak. To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. -- To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that…