Hover Hawk - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hover hawkHawk moth
Any moth of the family Sphingidaelig of which there are numerous genera and species They are large handsome moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed They fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird sucking the honey by means of a long slender proboscis The larvaelig are large hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors and often with a caudal spine See Sphinx also Tobacco worm and Tomato worm...
Hover hawk
The kestrel...
Hovercraft and Hover vehicles
Hovercraft and Hover vehicles, a hovercraft or hover vehicle: (1) is a motor vehicle, whether or not it is intended or adapted for use on roads; but (2) is to be treated as not being a vehicle of any of the defined classes [See the (English) Road Traffic Regulation Act, 1984, s. 139(1); Road Traffic Act, 1988, 188(1) (English)]....
Hoveringly
In a hovering manner...
Hawk
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidaelig They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill and in having shorter and less pointed wings Many are of large size and grade into the eagles Some as the goshawk were formerly trained like falcons In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied also to true falcons as the sparrow hawk pigeon hawk duck hawk and prairie hawk...
Hawked
Curved like a hawks bill crooked...
hummingbird
any bird of the family Trochilidaelig of which over one hundred genera are known including about four hundred species They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise the wings are specialized for hovering flight but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects The common humming bird or ruby throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris Several other species are found in the Western United States See Calliope and Ruby throat...
Carvist
A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand a hawk in its first year...
Falconer
A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks...
Goatsucker
One of several species of insectivorous birds belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera esp the European species Caprimulgus Europaeligus so called from the mistaken notion 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...
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