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To cry like a crow, rook, or raven. Rising and cawing at the gun's report. Shak.

An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar. [Also written cauk.]

See Calker.

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.

Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. -- n.

stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

; t be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. At length the darkness begins to break. Macawlay.

One who pursues the business of calendering. My good friend the calender. Cawper.

ngs. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

ok . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cawper.

See Cawk, Calker.

aving a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.

diments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. "The elemental rules of erudition." Cawthorn.

To brutify; to imbrute. All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.

Significant of fate; ominous. The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.

A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. [Written also grigri palm.]

See Caw.