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HAW

Volume 11 · 77 words · 1842 Edition

a sort of berry, the fruit of several species of mespilus, thence denominated hawthorns.

amongst farriers, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eyelid and eye of a horse, which, if not timely removed, destroys it.

a small parcel of land, so called in Kent, as a Hempshaw, or Beanhaw, lying near the house, and enclosed for these uses. But Sir Edward Coke, in an ancient plea concerning Feversham in Kent, says hawes are houses.