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Bower :: Bower (n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest..

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Cast :: Cast (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.

Dorhawk :: Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.

Harrier :: Harrier (n.) 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 aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus)..

Falconine :: Falconine (a.) Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconida.

Huckster :: Huckster (n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker..

Mew :: Mew (n.) A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks..

Frill :: Frill (v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills..

Check :: Check (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

Tomahawked :: Tomahawked (imp. & p. p.) of Tomahaw.

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

Buzzardet :: Buzzardet (n.) A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer..

Ospray :: Ospray (n.) The fishhawk.

Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk..

Badger :: Badger (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc..

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

Heterocera :: Heterocera (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form..

Jashawk :: Jashawk (n.) A young hawk.

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