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Cawky :: Cawky (a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

Eyasmusket :: Eyasmusket (n.) An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk.

Mounty :: Mounty (v.) The rise of a hawk after prey.

Mew :: Mew (n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural..

Scrawler :: Scrawler (n.) One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively..

Eyas :: Eyas (n.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself..

Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To show mirth awkwardly.

Guy :: Guy (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot..

Falconry :: Falconry (n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl..

Colporteur :: Colporteur (n.) A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books..

Ignoble :: Ignoble (a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk..

Calf :: Calf (n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

Srawls :: Sprawl (v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping..

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)..

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

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

Maladroit :: Maladroit (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.

Hawker :: Hawker (v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.

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