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To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh.

from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

The foghting of hawks with each other.

wreck. Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.

de. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to rochett a shawl.

bol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. Love is lost, and thus she cries him. Crashaw.

The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

s; malicious; snarling. [Obs.] Though his mind Be ne'er so curst, his tonque is kind. Crashaw.

furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne.

The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

dare 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.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.