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A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. "Kites that bait and beat." Shak.

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] Bacon.

To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. Swift.

A kind of hawk. [Obs.] Halliwell.

One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. Abaft the beam (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed. -- Beam center (Mach.), the fulcrum or…

cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insec…

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reac…

A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]

To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

Bungling; awkward. [R.]

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] Sir J. Hawkins.

ertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping eng…

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.