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Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

A peddler; a hawker.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

The nether part of the beak of a hawk. Clap dish. See Clack dish, under Clack, n. -- Clap net, a net for taking birds, made to close or clap together.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh.

One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

The foghting of hawks with each other.

A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.

Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. The street cries of London. Mayhew.

The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects. Diurnal aberration (Anat.), the aberration of light arising from the effect of the earth's rotation upon the apparent direction of motion of light. -- Diurnal arc, the arc described by the sun…

hich builds large nests in trees. -- Duck barnacle. (Zoöl.) See Goose barnacle. -- Duck hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zoöl.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (…

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.