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all wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Burns. Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw. Chaucer. The green shaws, the merry green woods. Howitt.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.

fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders. India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. -- Shawl goat (Zoöl.), the Cashmere goat.

A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

Sciatica. [Obs.]

A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton. S. Wells Williams.

pecies. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novæ-Hollandiæ) is pure white.

Heronshaw. [Obs.] Spenser.

A heron. [Written variously hernshaw, harnsey, etc.]

A young hawk. Booth.

See Kickshaws, the correct singular.

Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak.

See Pasha.

To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!" The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. Sir W. Scott.

A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. [Sailor's cant, U.S.]

See Bashaw.

Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.

Bravado. [Obs.] Fanshawe.