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hawker
  • n  someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
  • n  a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
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hawking
  • n  English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
  • n  the act of selling goods for a living
  • v  sell or offer for sale from place to place
  • v  hunt with hawks
  • v  clear mucus or food from one's throat
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hawkins
  • n  English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
  • n  United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)
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hawkishness
  • n  any political orientation favoring aggressive policies
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hawkmoth
  • n  any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
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hawksbill
  • n  pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
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hawksbill turtle
  • n  pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
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hawkweed
  • n  any of various plants of the genus Pilosella
  • n  any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion
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hawkyns
  • n  English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
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haworth
  • n  English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)
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