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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.

lly, 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.

esh, 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. Sha…

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

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

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 feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes.

Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.

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 .