Haw

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  • noun. The fruit of a hawthorn.
  • noun. A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.
  • interjection. Used to command an animal pulling a load to turn to the left.
  • intransitive verb. To turn to the left.
  • noun. An utterance used by a speaker who is fumbling for words.
  • intransitive verb. To fumble in speaking.
  • noun. A nictitating membrane, especially of a domesticated animal.
  • noun. An inflamed condition of this membrane.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To look: used especially in the imperative, haw! or look haw! to call attention.
  • An exclamation used by a driver to his horses or oxen, to command them to turn to the left. See haw, verb
  • noun. An inclosed piece of land; a hedged inclosure; a small field; a yard.
  • noun. Specifically A churchyard.
  • noun. A green plot in a valley.
  • Blue; azure.
  • To turn to the left: the opposite of gee: said of horses and cattle.
  • To turn or cause to come to the near side: as, to haw oxen.
  • noun. An excrescence in the eye; specifically, in farriery, a diseased or disordered condition of the third eyelid of a horse: generally in the plural, haws.
  • noun. The third eyelid, nictitating membrane, or winker of a horse.
  • noun. The fruit of the hawthorn, Cratægus Oxyacantha.
  • noun. The fruit of any of the species of Cratægus.
  • noun. The plant which bears such fruit: usually with some qualifying word denoting, for the most part, the character of the fruit.
  • noun. The Viburnum prunifolium, the black haw of the United States. See Viburnum.
  • noun. Any berry.
  • noun. Proverbially, a thing of no value.
  • An unmeaning syllable marking the pauses of hesitating speech. It takes various vocal forms, variously indicated in writing. See the etymology.
  • noun. An intermission or hesitation of speech marked by the unmeaning syllable haw.
  • To speak with hesitation and the interruption of drawling and unmeaning sounds: as, to hum and haw.
  • noun. The inner eyelid or nictitating membrane of dogs: usually concealed, but noticeable in the bloodhound.
  • noun. Cratægus tomentosa, the pear-haw, and sometimes C. Douglasii, the Western haw.
  • noun. Same as May-haw.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
  • intransitive verb. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
  • intransitive verb. speaking hesitantly and inarticulately, with numerous pauses and interjections.
  • noun. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under nictitate.
  • intransitive verb. To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See gee.
  • intransitive verb. to go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver.
  • transitive verb. to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to master or control.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • noun. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
  • noun. The fruit of the hawthorn.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
  • noun. Fruit of the hawthorn.
  • noun. A hedge.
  • interjection. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn left.
  • verb. To turn left.
  • verb. To cause (an animal) to turn left.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the nictitating membrane of a horse
  • verb. utter `haw'