haw

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• 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.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• 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 (Anat.) 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 [Colloq.] to go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable.
• transitive verb To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver.
• transitive verb [Colloq.] to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to master or control.
• noun A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
• noun The fruit of the hawthorn.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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 historical A hedge.
• interjection An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn left.
• verb of an animal To turn left.
• verb To cause (an animal) to turn left.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the nictitating membrane of a horse
• verb utter `haw'