hawk (1), hafoc, havek, hauck, hauke, hawke

[A. S. hafoc, heafoc; cogn. with Dut. haric; Icel. haukr; Sw. hök; Dan. hög; German habicht; O. H. Ger. hapuh.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. 2. 2. A sharper, a cheat. II. Technically : 1. Plastering : A piece of board ten inches square, and held by a handle at the bottom; it is used to hold a small quantity of plaster, and is grasped by the plasterer's left hand, while his right wields the trowel. 2. Ornithology : (1) Sing .: The name of the several species of the genera Accipiter and Astur (q. v.). The Sparrow hawk is Accipiter nisus, the Goshawk, Astur palumbarius . Nauclerus furcatus is sometimes called the Swallow-tailed hawk; it is, however, a kite. (2) Pl .: The sub-family Accipitrine, called more fully Sparrow Hawks. The bill is short, suddenly curved from the base, with a large festoon in the upper mandible. The wings are short, the quills internally emarginate at their base. The tail is rounded. The male is often much smaller than the pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1026.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1027.png:[blocks in formation] Naut .: A ve el built like a pink, but rigged like a hoy; that is, having a narrow stern and sloop- rigged. [HoOKER.] hawk-er (2), s. [Dan. höker a chandler, a huckster; hökere the trade of a hawker; hökre = to bank; Ger. höker , höcker =a retailer of goods; Sw. hökeri =hawking; hökáre =a chandler, a cheese- monger; O. Dut. heukeren =to hawk; heukelaar =a huckster. In Mid. Eng. we find hokkerye , hukkerye , or hukrie =the trade of a hawker or peddler. The base of the word is the same as that of huckster (q.v.).] [HAWK (3), १.] 1. Lit .: One who hawks goods about for sale; a peddler; a packman. "To travel about with their goods from place to place, and from fair to fair, like the hawkers and peddlers of the present times."-Smith: Wealth of Nations , bk. iii., ch. v. "This broad-brimmed hawker of holy things." Tennyson: Maud , I. x. 41. hawk-er (3), s. [Eng. hawk (1), v.; -er.] One who practices the sport of hawking. "They serve for hawking - poles . " - P . Holland : Pliny , bk. xvi., ch. xxxvi. hawk-ish, a. [Eng. hawk ; -ish.] Like a hawk. "Too fierce and hawkish ."-H. Kingsley: Geoffrey Ham- lyn , ch. vi. hawk-It, a. [Cf. HAWKIE.] White-faced (ap- plied to cattle). "I do still haud by the real hawkit Airshire breed."_ "When a hawker hawks his wares." Tennyson: The Blackbird, 20. upon his being almost deformedly hawk -nosed."- Boyle : Works, vi. 14. Bot.: The composite genus Hieracium (q. v.). Mouse - eared Hawkweed : Bot.: Hieracium pilosella . It is a common plant with long stolons, a leafle scape, solitary heads of flowers, with pale yellow ligules and yellow styles. hâwse, *halse, subst . [Icel. háls , hals =the neck the front sheet of a sail, the tack of a sail, the end of a rope, part of the bow of a ship or boat; hálsa to clew up a sail; Dan., Sw. & Dut. hals =the neck, a tack; Dut. halsklaup =a hawse-hole.] Nautical : IMG:content-1028.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] Hăx'-ō, s . [For etym. and def., see compound.] Haxo's system, s . hay casemated batteries have earthen parapets along their front, and their arches are well covered with earth. They are open to the terreplein in the rear, and there are apertures in front of the guns, opening into embrasures formed in an extension of the parapet at these points, beyond its ordinary retired position. Being open to the rear the circulation of air prevents any inconvenience from smoke. Batteries of the kind are to be found in many of our new works. ( Voyle .)