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Kestrel

A small slender European hawk Falco alaudarius allied to the sparrow hawk Its color is reddish fawn streaked and spotted with white and

Goatsucker

that it sucks goats The European species is also goat milker goat owl goat chaffer fern owl night hawk nightjar night churr churr owl gnat hawk and dorhawk

Falconer

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks

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Cheats

it is written; selling one commodity for another, or using false weights and measures, and the like, 1 Hawk. 188. 'If a person in the course of his trade or business, openly and publicly carried on, put

Seel

To close the eyes of a hawk or other bird by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head

Accomplice

but always in a bad sense], one concerned with another or others in the commission of a crime, Hawk. P.C. 87. An accomplice could always be called to give evidence, and by virtue of (English) Lord Denman's

Appearance

and in misdemeanours generally after the accused had once appeared, the trial might proceed in his absence, 2 HAWK, PC C 22, s. 1; Cro. Jac. 462; 4 Steph. Comm. See ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICE.

Assault

found guilty of the assault, but not guilty of the battery. But battery always includes an assault, 1 Hawk. P. C. c. lxii., s. 1. The various kinds of assault are successively dealt with and made punishable

Assembly, Unlawful

Assembly, Unlawful, a meeting of three or more persons to do an unlawful Act, 3 Inst. 9; 1 Hawk. 155. See OFFENCE; RIOT; ROUT

Attachment

a Court, and (6) Forgery of writs, or any other deceit tending to impose on a Court, Leach's Hawk. P. Cr., c. 22, s. 33. The issue of writs of attachment in the High Court is now

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