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To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

A nesting or unfledged Lird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to pr Shak J. H. Walsh

An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ

The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

ally, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

lesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Sh…

To hunt with a hawk. [Obs.] Bacon. To fly a kite (Com.), to raise money on commercial notes. [Cant or Slang]

The female of a hawk or falcon.

To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. Johnson.

An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

f the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. -- Gnat flower, the bee flower. -- Gnat hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- called also gnat owl. -- Gnat snapper (Zoöl.), a bird that catches gnats. -- Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. Matt. xxiii. 24.

goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .