A bird (esp. a hawk) of a common or inferior species. Obsolete.

A wild hawk caught in Lent.

= make-hawk, n.

An experienced hawk used in the training of younger ones (see quots.).

Names said to be given to the male and female, respectively, of a kind of long-winged hawk.

Given by Izaak Walton as the name of a long-winged hawk, native of Virginia.

a hawk which is kept at hack (see sense main sense).

According to 18th cent. dictionaries, the female and male respectively of a kind of hawk; see quot.

A hawk, resembling the buzzard, but having rather longer legs.

= nankeen kestrel n.

Any of several hawks or buzzards of the genus Buteo (family Accipitridae) of medium to fairly large birds of prey with a sturdy build and broad…

(a) Falconry a hawk trained to fly at rooks; (b) English regional (southern) the hobby, Falco subbuteo.

name for Neopus (Ictinætus) malayensis, an East Indian hawk.

the grey hawk of Central America and the southern United States, Buteo nitidus or B. plagiatus (formerly placed in a separate genus Asturina).