haw

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An utterance used by a speaker who is fumbling for words.
2. v. To fumble in speaking.
3. n. The fruit of a hawthorn.
4. n. A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.
5. n. A nictitating membrane, especially of a domesticated animal.
6. n. An inflamed condition of this membrane.
7. interj. Used to command an animal pulling a load to turn to the left.
8. v. To turn to the left.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An inclosed piece of land; a hedged inclosure; a small field; a yard.
2. n. Specifically A churchyard.
3. n. A green plot in a valley.
4. n. The fruit of the hawthorn, Cratægus Oxyacantha.
5. n. The fruit of any of the species of Cratægus.
6. n. The plant which bears such fruit: usually with some qualifying word denoting, for the most part, the character of the fruit. Thus, in America, the apple-haw is Cratægus æstivalis; the hog's-haw, C. brachyacantha; the parsley-haw, C. apiifolia; the pear-haw, C. tomentosa; the red or scarlet haw, C. coccinea; the summer haw or yellow haw, C. flava, etc.
7. n. The Viburnum prunifolium, the black haw of the United States. See Viburnum.
8. n. Any berry.
9. n. Proverbially, a thing of no value.
10. n. 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.
11. n. The third eyelid, nictitating membrane, or winker of a horse.
12. To look: used especially in the imperative, haw! or look haw! to call attention.
13. An exclamation used by a driver to his horses or oxen, to command them to turn to the left. See haw, verb
14. To turn to the left: the opposite of gee: said of horses and cattle.
15. To turn or cause to come to the near side: as, to haw oxen.
16. Blue; azure.
17. An unmeaning syllable marking the pauses of hesitating speech. It takes various vocal forms, variously indicated in writing. See the etymology.
18. n. An intermission or hesitation of speech marked by the unmeaning syllable haw.
19. To speak with hesitation and the interruption of drawling and unmeaning sounds: as, to hum and haw.
20. n. Cratægus tomentosa, the pear-haw, and sometimes C. Douglasii, the Western haw.
21. n. Same as May-haw.
22. n. The inner eyelid or nictitating membrane of dogs: usually concealed, but noticeable in the bloodhound.

Wiktionary

1. interj. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn left.
2. v. of an animal To turn left.
3. v. To cause (an animal) to turn left.
4. interj. An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
5. n. Fruit of the hawthorn.
6. n. historical A hedge.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
2. n. The fruit of the hawthorn.
3. n. (Anat.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under nictitate.
4. n. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
5. v. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
6. v. 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.
7. v. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the nictitating membrane of a horse
2. v. utter `haw'
3. n. a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus