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Jess :: "Jess (n.) A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon..

Excursion :: Excursion () Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.].

Cawky :: Cawky (a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

Sea Hawk :: Sea hawk () A jager gull.

Shambling :: Shambling (a.) Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs..

Gawk :: Gawk (v. i.) To act like a gawky.

Lummox :: Lummox (n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler..

Winkle-hawk :: Winkle-hawk (n.) A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares..

Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

Left-handed :: Left-handed (a.) Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment..

Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.

Hawked :: Hawked (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers..

Expectoration :: Expectoration (n.) The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting..

Filanders :: Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm..

Brancher :: Brancher (n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

Squawking :: Squawked (imp. & p. p.) of Squaw.

Cauker :: Cauker (n.) See Cawk, Calker..

Pawk :: Pawk (n.) A small lobster.

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