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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.

es with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

See Bashaw.

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…

ent, or effect. Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform. Hawthorne.

s 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 inse…

To cover (the head) with a wig. Hawthorne.

ion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

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

A species of Cratægus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.

ry successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.

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

Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.

itten also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.