hawk

A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.

It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.

He made his hawke to fly, With hogeous showte and cry.

Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.

Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.

An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.

A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act.

“Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves,” Bundy told the ExComm on the morning of October 28, after Khrushchev announced that he was withdrawing his missiles. “Today was the day of the doves.”

An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.

To hunt with a hawk.

To hawke, or els to hunt From the auter to the funt

He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.

To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.

to hawk at flies

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.

A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.