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Tercelet :: Tercelet (n.) A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.

Hawker :: Hawker (n.) A falconer.

Cadge :: Cadge (v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc..

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

Bate :: Bate (v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait.

Peddle :: Peddle (v. t.) To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware..

Hawkey :: Hawkey (n.) See Hockey.

Whip-poor-will :: Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.

Formell :: Formell (n.) The female of a hawk or falcon.

Creance :: Creance (n.) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured..

Expectorate :: Expectorate (v. t.) To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth..

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..

Sarcel :: Sarcel (n.) One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk..

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

Nias :: Nias (n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person..

Mohawk :: Mohawk (n.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.

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

Weather :: Weather (v. t.) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

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

Jessed :: "Jessed (a.) Having jesses on, as a hawk..

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