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.

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.

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.

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.

noun. the nictitating membrane of a horse

verb. utter `haw'

"The wintry haw is burning out of season, crab of the thorn, a small light for small people, wanting no more from them but that they keep the wick of self-respect from dying out, not having to blind them with illumination."

gee  

black haw  dotted haw  may-haw  purple haw  red haw  

to haw and gee about  

emit  let loose  let out  nictitating membrane  third eyelid  

Baugh  Gaw  Law  Shaw  Straw  

abstaine  blorash  buckeye  canna  chenar  

avert  bear off  draw aside  ease off  edge off  

nictitate  

hawed  hawing  haws