I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.

a quasi-federalist party

Furthermore, as the reader may know, the Hebrew text's k'tiv (written tradition) and k'rei (reading tradition) differ for occasional words; where this occurs, our edition first prints that word's k'tiv letters in small type, followed by the pointed k'rei letters in normal text type.