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are 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.

See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.

peak on such questions with diffidence. Macaulay. An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of adress. W. Irving.

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…

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.

ich 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 (O…

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.

Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing. Matt. xiii. 15. O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue. Spenser.

effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes.

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.

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

Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

o 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.