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Hood :: Hood (n.) A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.

Hawker :: Hawker (n.) One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman..

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

Hawkbill :: Hawkbill (n.) A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret..

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

Hobby :: Hobby (n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking..

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar..

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..

Ospray :: Ospray (n.) The fishhawk.

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

Tomahawk :: Tomahawk (v. t.) To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk..

Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To hawk or peddle provisions.

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

Coster :: Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc..

Lure :: Lure (n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks..

Entermewer :: Entermewer (n.) A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year..

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

Cadger :: Cadger (n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge.

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air..

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

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