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

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

as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

ear the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

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.

distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land. -- To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted. -- To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

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

to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand. "I conceive you." Hawthorne. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

; aware; sensible. Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

ance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

ers; to concur in action, effort, or effect. Whate'er coöperates to the common mirth. Crashaw.