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HAW

Volume 2 · 48 words · 1771 Edition

a sort of berry, the fruit of several species of mespilus, thence denominated haw-thorns. See MESPILOUS.

among farriers, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eye-lid and eye of a horse, which, if not timely removed, will put it quite out. See FARRIERY.

HAWK. See FALCO.