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Look up: hawk

  1. Hawk
    Short for 'Tomahawk'.
    Found on http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm/gloss

  2. hawk
    [n] - an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations 2. [n] - diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail 3. [v] - hunt with hawks 4. [v] - clear the throat, as of phlegm
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Hawk
    A small to medium bird with short rounded wings, a long tail, usually yellow, orange or red eyes, living in wooded countryside.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20587

  4. hawk
    Person who believes in the use of military action rather than mediation as a means of solving a political dispute. The term first entered the political language of the USA during the 1960s, when it...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  5. HAWK
    Home-All-the-Way Killer
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  6. HAWK
    Surface-to-air missile [US]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  7. Hawk
    A flat wood or metal tool 10 inches to 14 inches square with a handle used by plasterers to carry plaster mortar or mud.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/

  8. Hawk
    Hawk (hak) noun [ Middle English hauk (prob. from Icelandic ), havek , Anglo-Saxon hafoc , heafoc ; akin to Dutch havik , Old High German habuh , German habicht , Icelandic haukr , Swedish h...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/19

  9. Hawk
    Hawk (hak) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hawked (hakt); present participle & verbal noun Hawking .] 1. To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks train...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/19

  10. Hawk
    Hawk intransitive verb [ W. hochi .] To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/19

  11. Hawk
    Hawk transitive verb To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/19

  12. Hawk
    Hawk noun [ W. hoch .] An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/20

  13. Hawk
    Hawk transitive verb [ Akin to Dutch hauker a hawker, German höken , höcken , to higgle, to retail, höke , höker , a higgler, huckster. See Huckster .] To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (m...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/20

  14. Hawk
    Hawk noun (Masonry) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar. Hawk boy , an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/20

  15. hawk
    <ornithology> 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...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  16. hawk
    noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  17. hawk
    verb hunt with hawks; `the tribes like to hawk in the desert`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  18. hawk
    noun a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  19. Hawk
    • (n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise. • (v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm. • (v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  20. Hawk
    (from the article `rocket and missile system`) ...a seeker in the projectile that was sensitive to the reflected energy then homed onto the target. Like active guidance, semiactive guidance was ... For 20 years, the most important land-based American SAM was the Hawk, a sophisticated system employing semiactive radar guidance. From the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/25

  21. Hawk
    (from the article `Pilcher, Percy Sinclair`) ...whom he twice visited in Germany, Pilcher began his own glider experiments in 1895. Over the next four years, he would complete a series of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/25

  22. hawk
    any of various small to medium-sized falconiform birds, particularly those in the genus Accipiter, known as the true hawks, and including the ... [6 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/25

  23. HAWK
    A flat wood or metal tool 10 inches to 14 inches square with a handle used by plasterers to carry plaster mortar or mud.
    Found on http://www.proofrock.com/glossary.html

  24. hawk
    hawk, name generally applied to the smaller members of the Accipitridae, a heterogeneous family of diurnal birds of prey, such as the eagle, the kite, the Old World vulture, and the secretary bird. Hawks belong to the same order as the falcon, the New World vulture, and the osprey. Hawks have keen s...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08230

  25. Hawk
    Hawk is American slang for to vomit.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow



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