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Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. Sir W. Scott.

of a globular shape aud sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.

Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.

A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot. The lady . . . who dresses like a guy. W. S. Gilbert.

d or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] Shak

A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus ærunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus). Harrier hawk(Micrastur.

Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow.

To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [Slang]

Clumsy; awkward.

A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

oyed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.

To hawk or peddle provisions.

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. .

A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.