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- English Word Hawkweed Definition A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
- English Word Hawkweed Definition A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius).
- English Word Hawm Definition See Haulm, straw.
- English Word Hawm Definition To lounge; to loiter.
- English Word Hawse Definition A hawse hole.
- English Word Hawse Definition The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
- English Word Hawse Definition The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.
- English Word Hawse Definition That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
- English Word Hawser Definition A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
- English Word Hawser-laid Definition Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
- English Word Hawthorn Definition A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.
- English Word Hay Definition A hedge.
- English Word Hay Definition A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
- English Word Hay Definition To lay snares for rabbits.
- English Word Hay Definition Grass cut and cured for fodder.
- English Word Hay Definition To cut and cure grass for hay.
- English Word Hay-cutter Definition A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.
- English Word Haybird Definition The European spotted flycatcher.
- English Word Haybird Definition The European blackcap.
- English Word Haybote Definition An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.