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whorls of white or pale pink flowers. H. If the wolves had been hounded by tigers.

L'Estrange. palustris is a British plant; it is known as

Hour-plate (our'plāt), n. The plate of a

clock or other time-piece on which the hours water-violet. 3. To urge on; to incite or spur on; to force

are marked; the dial. Hot-wall (hot'wąl), n. A wall with flues in

to action by repeated and clamorous deit, constructed in cold countries for the mands: usually

with on; as, he hounds him Housage (houz'aj), n. (From house-on type

of pontage, porterage, postage, &c.) A fee on to ruin. purpose of affording warmth to trees placed

paid for housing goods by a carrier, or at a against it, so as to counteract the effects of Houndfish (hound'fish), n. A popular name frost in autumn when the wood and buds for certain fishes of the shark family; Mus- House (hous), n. pl. Houses (houz'ez). (Com

wharf, quay, wc. are maturing, and in spring when the blostelus vulgaris or lævis, the smooth hound

mon Teutonic word;comp. A. Sax. 0. Sax. Icel. soms and leaves are unfolding.

Sw. O.H.G. and Goth, hús; G. haus, D. huis; He now looks upon two hundred rood of the best

from an Indo-Eur. root, sku, to cover.) 1. A hot-walls in the north of England, besides two new

building intended or used as a habitation summer-houses and a green-house. 5. Baillie.

or shelter for animals of any kind; but espeHot-water (hot'wą-tér), n. 1. Heated water.

cially a building or edifice for the habitation 2. Fig. strife; contention; difficulties or

of man; a dwelling-place, mansion, or abode troubles; worry; as, he is never out of hot

Smooth Houndfish (Mustelus vulgaris).

for any of the human species.-2. Those who water. -Hot-water ordeal. See ORDEAL.

dwell in a house and compose a family; a Hotwater-pump (hot'wa-ter-pump), n. In

fish, grows to the length of 3 or 4 feet, household. condensing steam-engines, the feed-pump for and is esteemed delicate food among the Cornelius, . . . a devout man, and one that feared supplying the boiler from the hot-well. Hebrides.

God with all his house.
It has a long round body, with

Acts X. 1, 2. Hot-well (hot'wel), n. In condensing steam- ash-coloured sides and back.

3. A family regarded as consisting of ancesengines, a reservoir for receiving the warm

Hound's-tongue (houndz'tung), n. A plant, tors, descendants, and kindred, a race of water which the air-pump draws off from

Cynoglossum officinale, so called from the persons from the same stock; a tribe; espethe condenser. Part of this water is used to feed the boiler, and for this purpose it is Houne,t n.

shape of its leaves. See CYNOGLOSSUM. cially, a noble family or an illustrious race;

A hound. Chaucer. drawn off from the hot-well by means of the Houp (hộp), n. Same as Hoopoo.

as, the house of Hapsburg; the house of

Hanover; the house of Israel, or of Judah. hotwater-pump.

Houped, t pret. of hoop. Hooped; whooped; 4. One of the estates of a kingdom or other Houdah (hou'da), n. Same as Howdah. hollaed.' Chaucer.

government assembled in parliament; a body Houff, n. and v. i. Same as Howff

Houqua (hou’kwa), a. Same as Howqua. of men united in their legislative capacity, Hough (hok), n. [Written also hock; A. Sax.

Hour (our), n. [O. Fr. hore, houre, from L. and holding their place by right or by elechoh, the heel and the hough; comp. D. hak,

hora; Gr. höra, any limited time or season, tion; as, the House of Lords or Peers; the G. hacke, a hoe, and also a heel. ) i. (a) The

an hour; G. uhr, a clock, a watch, an hour, House of Commons; the house of representajoint on the hind leg of a quadruped be- has the same origin.] 1. The twenty-fourth tives or delegates.-5. A quorum of a legislatween the knee and the fetlock, correspond

part of a day; sixty minutes. -2. The time tive body; as, there is not a sufficient number ing to the ankle joint in man; that part of

marked or indicated by a chronometer, of members present to form a house.-6. The the leg between the tibia and the cannon

clock, or watch; the particular time of the audience or attendance at a place of enterbone, consisting of the ankle-bones more or

day; as, what is the hour! at what hour tainment; as, there was a good house. less completely united. (6) In man, the back

shall we meet?-3. A particular time; a 7. Supply of provisions for the table; as, he part of the knee joint; the ham.-2. † An

fixed or appointed time; a space of time keeps a good house, or a miserable house. adze; a hoe.

recurring occasionally; an interval; a sea- 8. In com. a firm or commercial establishHough (hok), v.t. 1. To hamstring; to disson; as, the hour of death.

ment; as, the house of Baring Brothers. — able by cutting the sinews of the ham.

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, ... mine hour is

9. In astrol. a twelfth part of the heavens as Thou shalt hough their horses. Josh. xi. 6. not yet come.

John ii. 4. divided by great circles drawn through the 2. To cut with a hoe.

That, in his intellectual hour, Milton called for his north and south points of the horizon, in the Hougher (hok'ér), n. One who houghs or

daughter to secure what came, may be questioned. same way as meridians pass through the

Macaulay. hamstrings. 4. pl. Certain prayers in the Romish Church,

earth's poles. The heavens, visible and inHoughmagandie (hoch - ma- gan 'di), n. to be repeated at stated times of the day,

visible, were thus divided into twelve equal Sexual intercourse; copulation. Burns. as matins and vespers. -- 5. pl. In myth.

parts, six being above the horizon and six [Scotch.) female divinities or goddesses of the seasons

below. These twelve houses were numbered Houlet (hou'let), n. An owl. See HOWLET. or hours of the day.

onward, beginning with that which lay in Houltt (hõlt), n. Same as Holt.

While universal Pan,

the last immediately below the horizon. Hounce (houns), n. An ornament on the Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance,

The first house was called the house of life; collar of a cart-horse. [Old and provincial

Led on the eternal Spring.

Milton. the second, that of fortune or riches; the English.)

-To keep good hours, to be at home in good third, that of brethren; the fourth, that of Hound (hound), n. [A. Sax. hund, a dog or season; not to be abroad late, or after the relations; the fifth, that of children; the hound; in slightly varying forms throughout usual hours of retiring to rest.-Sidereal

sixth, that of health; the seventh, that of the Teutonic languages; comp. G. Dan. and hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal marriage; the eighth, that of death or the Sw. hund, D. hond, Icel. hundr, 0.G. hunt, day.The small hours, the early hours of upper portal; the ninth, that of religion; the Goth. hunds. The word can scarcely be the morning, as one, two, &c.

tenth, that of dignities; the eleventh, that allied to E. hend, hent, hand, or Goth. Hour-angle (our'ang-gl), 12. The angular

of friends and benefactors; and the twelfth, hinthan, to take captive, to catch, as the distance of a heavenly body east or west of

that of enemies or of captivity. - 10. A dental does not seem to belong to the root; the meridian; the angle between the hour- square or division on a chess-board. - Houxe comp. W. cun, L. canis, Gr. kyon, kynos, circle passing through a given body and the

of call, a house where journeymen conSkr. çvan, a dog. It is rather remarkable meridian of a place.

nected with a particular trade assemble, that though in the earliest English (A. Sax.) Hour-circle (our'sér-kl), n. In astron. (a) particularly when out of work, and where and in the Indo-European languages gener- any great circle of the sphere which passes

the unemployed can be hired by those in ally hound is the generic term, it has been through the two poles, so called because

search of hands.-House of correction, a in this sense almost completely supplanted the hour of the day is ascertained when the prison for the punishment of idle and disin English by dog, which does not occur in circle upon which the sun is for the time orderly persons, vagrants, trespassers, &c.; Anglo-Saxon.] 1. A generic name of the being is ascertained. (6) A circle upon an

a bridewell. - House of God, a church; a dog; but more particularly restricted to equatorial telescope lying parallel to the

temple.--To bring down the house, to draw particular breeds or varieties used in the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated

forth a universal burst of applause, as in a in hours and subdivisions of hours in right

theatre. - To keep house, to maintain an inascension.

dependent family establishment. Hour-glass (our'glas), n. An instrument for House (houz), v.č. pret. & pp. housed; ppr. measuring time, consisting of a glass vessel housing. 1. To put or receive into a house; having two compartments, from the upper

to provide with a dwelling or residence; to most of which a quantity of sand, water, or put or keep under a roof;

to cover; to shelmercury runs by a small aperture into the ter; to protect by covering; as, to house lower,and occupies a definite portion of time,

wood; to house farming utensils; to house as an hour, in so doing.

cattle.
Hour-hand (our'hand), n. The hand or Mere cottagers are but housed beggars.
pointed pin which shows the hour on a

Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.

Sir P. Sidney. chronometer, clock, and the like.

2. To cause to take shelter.
Houri (hou’ri), n. (Ar.) Among the Mo-
hammedans, a nymph of paradise. In the

E'en now we housed him in the abbey here. Shak.
Koran, the houris are represented as most

-- To house guns (naut.), first to run them beautiful virgins, created of pure musk, and

in upon the decks, and by taking the quoins endowed with unfading youth and immu

from under them, to let the muzzles rest nity from all disease. T'heir company is

against the sides above the ports, then to Deer-hound to form the chief felicity of the faithful

secure them by their tackle, muzzle - lashHour-line (ourlin), n. 1. In astron. a line

ings, and breechings. chase, as in hunting the boar, the deer, the fox, the hare, and the otter by scent. Some

indicating the hour.-2. In dialling, a line House (houz), v.i. i. To take shelter or lodgon which the shadow of the gnomon falls at

ings; to take up abode; to reside. times used as a term of contempt for an a given hour.

Whence many a deer, rustling his velvet coat, individual; as, a low hound; a sly hound. - Hourly (our'li), a. Happening or done every

Had issued, many a gipsy and her brood 2. Naut. a projection at the mast-head, on

Peered forth, then housed again.

Roger's. either side, serving as a shoulder for the

hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent;
often repeated; continual.

2. To be situated in an astrological house tops or trestle-trees to rest on.

or region of the heavens. Where Saturn Hound (hound), v.t. 1. To set on the chase;

We must live in hourly expectation of having those troops recalled.

Swift.

houses.' Dryden. to incite to pursuit.

One emAs he who only lets loose a greyhound out of the

Hourly (our’li), adv. Every hour; frequently; House-agent (hous'ā-jent), n. slip is said to hound him at the hare.

ployed to sell or let houses, collect the Bramhall.

continually.
Great was their strife, which hourly was renewed.

rents of them, &c. 2. To hunt; to chase.

Dryden. Houseboat (hous'bot), n. A covered boat.

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Bacon.

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Housebote (hous'bot), n. (House and bote.) hunsl; Goth. hunsl.) The eucharist; the A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifelv. In law, a sufficient allowance of wood to sacrament; the act of taking or receiving

Sir W. Scoil. repair the house and supply fuel.

the sacrament.

Housewifely (hous'wif-li), adv. With the Housebreaker (hous'brāk-er), n. One who Nor with them mix'd, nor told her name, nor sought,

economy of a careful housewife. breaks, opens, and enters a house with a Wrapt in her grief, for housel or for shrift. Tennyson, Housewifery (hous'wif-ri or huz'zif-ri), 1. felonious intent. Houselt (houz'el), v.t. [A. Sax. húslian; Goth.

The business of the mistress of a family; Housebreaking (hous'brāk-ing), n. The hunsljan. See the noun.] 1. To give the

female business in the economy of a family; breaking or opening and entering of a eucharist to; specifically, to administer the

female management of domestic concerns. house with the intent to commit a felony viaticum to.

St. Paul expresses the obligation of Christian or to steal or rob. If the crime is com

women to good housewifery. A priest, a priest, says Aldingar,

Jer. Taylor, mitted at night it is termed burglary.

Me for to housel and shrive. Old ballad. Housewifeskep, Hussyfskep (huz'zifHoused (houzd), p. and a. Applied to horses

Hence--2. To prepare for a journey.

skep), n. Housewifery. [Scotch. ) when dressed in housings.

May zealous smiths

House-wright (hous'rīt), n.
House-dog (hous'dog), n.

A builder of
A dog kept to
So housel all our hackneys, that they may feel

houses. Fotherby. guard a house.

Compunction in their feet, and tire at Highgate. Housing (houz'ing), p. and a. Warped; House-engine (hous'en-jin), n. In mech, a

Beau. & FI.

crooked, as a brick. steam-engine which is so constructed as to Houselamb (hous'lam), n. A lamb kept in Housing (houz'ing), n. 1. A collection or depend to some extent on the building in a house for fattening.

range of houses.-2. The act of putting unwhich it is contained, and is not independent Houseleek (hous'lek), n. (House and leek. der shelter.-3. [Comp. houss, below.) A kind or portable.

A. Sax. leac, an herb in general.] The com- of covering, as (a) a protection for a vessel House-factor (hous'fak-tér), n. Same as mon name of the plants of the genus Sem- laid up in a dock; (b) a cloth laid over a House-agent

pervivum, nat, order Crassulacea. The com- saddle, a saddle-cloth, a horse-cloth; (c) a Housefather (hous'fa-Thér), n. [G. haus- mon houseleek (S. tectorum) has long been piece of cloth attached to the hinder part

vater.) The father of a family; the male common in Britain, growing on the tops of of a saddle and covering the buttocks of the head of a household. Thackeray.

houses and on walls. It contains malic acid horse: in the plural, the trappings. House-fly (hous' fli), n. A well-known combined with lime. The leaves are applied

Housing and saddle bloody red, dipterous insect, the Musca domestica of by the common people to bruises and old

Lord Marmion's steed rush'd by Sir W. Scott. naturalists. The maggots live in dung, ulcers; and it was formerly believed that heaps of decaying vegetables, &c., be- houseleeks growing on a housetop were a

4. Naut. same as Houseline.-5. In building. coming developed into the perfect animal safe-guard against lightning. In Scotland

the space taken out of one solid to admit

of the insertion of the extremity of another, by heat. The house-fly is furnished with a it is called Fou or Fouat.

for the purpose of connecting them.-6. In suctorial proboscis, from which, when feed- | Houseless (hous'les), a. Destitute of a house

arch. a niche for a statue. – 7. In mach. (a) ing on any dry substances, it exudes a liquid, or habitation; without shelter; as, the housewhich, by moistening them, fits them to less child of want.

the part of the framing which holds a jourbe sucked From its feet being beset with Houseline (hous'lin), n. Naut. a small line

nal-box in place: called in the United States hairs, each terminating in a disc which is formed of three strands, smaller than rope

a Jaw. (b) The uprights supporting the

cross-slide of a planer. Goodrich. supposed to act as a sucker, it can walk yarn, used for seizings, &c. on smooth surfaces, as a ceiling, even with Houseling, Housling (houz'ling), a. 1. Per. Housling, a. See HOUSELING. its back down. This faculty is supposed to taining to the eucharist; as, houseling bread,

Houss, Housset (hous), n. (Fr. housse, be increased by these discs exuding a liquid, --Houseling cloth, in the R. Cath. Ch. a cloth

horse-covering, &c.) A covering. which makes the adhesion more perfect. spread over the rails before the altar during Houyhnhmn (hou’inm or hou-inm'), n. One Household (hous'hõld), n.

of a class of beings described by Swift in 1. Those who communion. dwell under the same roof and compose a

Gulliver's Travels as a race of horses enIt is not generally known that houseling cloths are

dowed with reason and extraordinary virfamily; those under the same domestic still used in the Church of England), but only in one government. place that I know of in England-viz., in Wimborne

tues, and who bear rule over the Yahoos or Minster, where they are said to have been used con. men-like beings, a vicious disgusting race. I baptized also the household of Stephanas, 1 Cor.i.16. tinuously since its foundation in the reign of Edward Hove (hov), pret. of heave. 2. Race; house; family. “Our household's the Confessor. F. Feremiah, in Notes and Queries.

Hove † (hov), v.i. (W. hofiaw, to suspend, to monument.' Shak.-3. Family life; domestic 2. Pertaining to any of the various sacra- hang over, to hover.) To hover about; to management. (Rare.)

ments of the Roman Catholic Church, as halt; to loiter. Rich stuffs and ornaments of household. Skak. that of marriage.

Ne joy of ought that under heav'n doth hove 4. pl. A technical name among millers for the His owne two hands, for such a turne most fitt,

Can comfort me.

Spenser. best flour made from red wheat, with a small

The housling fire did kindle and provide.

Hove (hov), n. A disease in cattle; hoove

Spenser. portion of white wheat mixed. Written also Honselling.

(which see). Household (houshold), a. Of or pertaining House-lot (hous'lot), n. A piece of land on

Hove (hov), v.i. To heave; to cause to swell; to the house and family; domestic; as, house- which to build a house; a site for a house.

to inflate. [Old English and Scotch.) hold furniture; household affairs. Housemaid (hous'mad), n. A female ser

Hovel (ho'vel), n. (Probably A. Sax. hofil, The household nook, vant employed to keep a house clean, &c.

dim, of hof, hofa, a house, a cave, a den.) The haunt of all affections pure. Keble. Housemother (hous'muth-ér), n. [G. haus

1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, pro--- Household bread, common bread, or bread mutter.) The mother of a family; the female

tecting produce from the weather, &c. -not of the finest quality. --Household gods head of a household. Thackeray.

2. A poor cottage; a small mean house. (a), in Rom. myth. gods presiding over the Housen (hous'en), n. Old plural of house.

Hovel (ho'vel), v. t. pret. & pp. hovelled; ppr. house or family; Lares and Penates. Hence House-pigeon (hous'pi-jon), n. A tame

horelling. To put in or as in a hovel; to

shelter. (6) Objects endeared to one from being asso- pigeon. ciated with home. House-raiser (hous'rāz-ėr), n. One who When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together,

each sex, like swine.

Tennyson. Bearing a nation with all its household gods into erects a house. exile. Longfellow. Houseroom (hous'röm), n. Room or ac

-To hovel a chimney, to carry up two sides - II outsehold stuff. the furniture of a house; commodation in a house. 'Houseroom that

of a chimney higher than the sides least the vessels, utensils, and goods of a family. costs him nothing.' Dryden.

liable to strong currents of air, or to leave Household troops, Household brigade, troops House - şparrow (hous'spa-ro), n. The apertures on all the sides of it. See HOVELwhose special duty it is to attend the sovePasser domesticus, a species of sparrow.

LING. reign and guard the metropolis.

House-spider (hous'spi-dėr), n. A spider Hovel - house, Hovel - housing (ho'velHouseholder (hous'hõld-ėr), n. The master that infests houses (Tegenaria domestica of

hous, ho'vel-houz-ing), n.

A niche for a naturalists).

statue. or chief of a family; one who keeps house with his family; the occupier of a house. House-steward (hous'stū-ėrd), n. A male

Hoveller (ho'vel-er), n. A provincial Eng. Mat. xiii. 27.

domestic who has the chief management of lish term for a person who assists in saving Towns in which almost every householder was an the internal affairs of a household; a man

life and property from a wrecked vessel. English Protestant.

G. P. R. James.
Macaulay. who has charge of the internal arrange-
Housekeeper (hous'kēp-ér), n. 1. One who

ments of any establishment.

Hovelling (ho'vel-ing), n. 1. A mode of preoccupies a house with his family; a man or House-surgeon (hous'sėr-jon), n.

venting chimneys from smoking by carrying woman who maintains a family in a house; sident medical officer in a hospital.

up two sides higher than those which are

less liable to receive strong currents of air; a householder; the master or mistress of a House-swallow (hous'swol-lo), n. The Hir. family. -2. A female servant who has the undo urbica, a species of swallow.

or leaving apertures on all the sides, so that

when the wind blows over the top the chief care of the family and superintends Housewarming (hous'warm-ing), n. A feast the other servants. -- 3. One who lives in

or merry-making at the time a family enters smoke may escape below.-2. The chimney plenty or who exercises hospitality. a new house.

so dealt with. Housewife (hous'wif or less formally huz'- Hoven (ho'vn), pp. of heave. The people are apter to applaud housekeepers than house-raisers.

Sir H. Wotton.

zif), n. 1. The mistress of a family; the Hover (ho'ver), v.i. (Apparently the same

wife of a householder; a female manager of word as W. hofiaw, to hover, which may be 4. One who keeps much at home.

domestic affairs. -2. A little case for pins, the original form.) 1. To hang fluttering You are manifest housekeepers. Shak, needles, thread, scissors, and the like.

in the air or upon the wing; to remain in 5. A house-dog.

Mrs. Unwin begs me in particular to thank you flight or in suspension over or about a place Housekeeping (hous'kep-ing), n. 1. The warmly for the housewife, the very thing she has just or object; to be suspended in the air. management of home affairs; care of domes- begun to want.

Cowper.

Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, tíc concerns. — 2. Hospitality; a plentiful 3. A hussy: in a bad sense.

and settling upon it.

Addison and hospitable table; supply of provisions Housewife, Houswive (hous'wif, hous'wiv), 2. To stand in suspense or expectation; to for household use.

v.t. To manage like a housewife, or with be in doubt or hesitation; to be irresolute. Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry. skill and economy; to economize.

3. To wander about from place to place Small housekeeping enough, said Phæbe. Sir IV. Scott. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which they in a neighbourhood; to move to and fro Housekeeping (hous'kēp-ing), a. Domestic;

have well houscuited.

Fuller threateningly or watchingly; as, an army used in a family; as, housekeeping commo- | Housewifely (hous'wif-li), a. Pertaining horering on our borders; a ship hovering on dities, (Rare.)

to or characteristic of a housewife; pertain- our coast. Agricola having before sent his Housel (houz'el), n. (A. Sax. hasel, husl, ing to the female management of a house; navy to hover on the coast.' Milton. offering, sacrament; Icel. and 0.Sw. húsi, like a housewife; thrifty.

Hovert (ho'vėr), n. A protection or shelter.

The re

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bury.

Oysters grew upon the boughs of trees, ... which case of persecution; however, (but, yet, still, not with. 3. Be that as it may; in any case.

But, were cast in thither to serve as a hover for the fish. standing, nevertheless) I do not exclude it.' Atter.

Shak. howsoever, strange and admirable.'

Worcester,
Carew.
Hover-ground (ho'ver-ground), n. Light Howff, Houff (houf), n.

Howsoever, he shall pay for me. Shak.

[A. Sax. hof, a ground. Ray.

howdwelling, a house; G. "hof, a court, a house. Howsoont (hou'sön), adv. As soon as; Hoveringly (ho'ver-ing-li), adv. In a hover

ever soon. Any place of resort, as a drinking house; a ing manner. haunt. (Scotch.)

Howve,t Houvet 12. (Icel, húfa, a hood, a How (hou), adv. [A. Sax. hu, hwû, hwy, in

The Globe Tavern here for these many years has

cap, a bonnet; Sc. how, a caul; Dan. hue, a strumental case of hwa, hwct, who, what; been my how

hood; G. haube, a caul, a hood.] A cap or

Burns. really the same word as why. See Who:) Howff, Houff (houf), v.i.

d. Chaucer. 1. In what manner; as, I know not how to

To resort fre- Hoxt (hoks), v.t. To hough; to hamstring.

quently to a place as for shelter; to haunt. answer.

See Hour:. [Scotch.)

If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward How can a man be born when he is old? John iii. 4.

Where was't that Robertson and you were used to Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining, 2. To what degree or extent; in what pro- howf"thegither? Somegate about the Laigh Calton, Froin course required.

Shak. portion; by what measure or quantity; how- I am thinking

Sir H. Scott. Hoy (hoi), n. (Dan. and Sw. hoy, G. and D. ever in degree or extent; as, how long shall Howitz (hou’its), n. See HOWITZER.

heu.) A small vessel, usually rigged as a we suffer these indignities? how much better Howitzer (hou'its-ėr), n. [G. haubitze, from

sloop, and employed in conveying passenis wisdom than gold?

Bohem. hausnice, originally a sling; from gers and goods from place to place on the By how much they would diminish the present the G. are derived It obizza, obice, Fr. obus, sea-coast, or in transporting goods to and extent of the sea, so much they would impair the

from a ship in a road or bay. howitzer.) A short piece of ordnance, usufertility and fountains and rivers of the earth.

The hoy went to London every week loaded with Bentley ally having a chamber for the powder nar

mackerel and herrings, and returned loaded with 3. By what means; as, how can this effect

company.

Cowper. be produced?–4. In what state, condition,

Hoy (hoi), interj. Ho! hollod! an exclamaor plight.

tion designed to call attention.

dou How, and with what reproach shall I return?

Hoy (hoi), v.t. To incite; to chase or drive Dryden. 5.7 At what price; how dear.

on or away. [Scotch.)

They hoy't out Will, wi' sair advice; How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?

They hecht him some fine braw ane. Burns. Shak. Besides being used as an interrogative,

Hoyden (hoi'dn), n. and a. Same as Hoiden. either direct or indirect, how is often inter

Hoyman (hoi'man), 1. pl. Hoymen (hoi'jectional and stands alone. When followed

men). One who navigates a hoy. by that, how is superfluous and no longer in

Brass Howitzer (24 pounder).

It soon became necessary for the courts to declare

that a common hoyman, like a common waggood use.

goner, is responsible for goods committed to his cusrower than the bore, specially designed for Brother Ned related how that, exactly thirty-five

tody.

Sir W. Jones. years ago, Tim Linkinwater was suspected to have the horizontal firing of shells with small

A hoist. (Scotch.) received a love-letter. Dickens.

Hoyse (hois), n.

charges, combining in some degree the acHowadji (hou-aj'i), n. [Ar., a traveller.) curacy of the cannon with the calibre of the Hoyte (hoit), v.i. To amble crazily. (Scotch. } A name given to a merchant in the East, mortar, but much lighter than any gun of H-piece. Same as Aitch-piece. because merchants were formerly the chief the same capacity. The Coehorn howitzer Huanaca, Huanaco (hwa-nä’ka, hwa-nä'

ko), n.
used in India for mountain service is light Huano (hwäʼno), n.

Same as Guanaco (which see). travellers.

Same as Guano: not Howbet (hou-bē'), adv. Nevertheless. enough to be borne by a horse. The rifled

now used. gun, throwing a shell of the same capacity Huanuco Bark (hwä-nö'ko bärk), 1. Howbeit (hou-bē'it), adv. [Compounded of

The how, be, and it.) Be it as it may; neverthe- from a smaller bore, and with much greater

gray or silver cinchona bark imported in the power, has superseded the howitzer for less; notwithstanding; yet; but; however.

general purposes. Howdah (hou'da), n. (Hind, and Ar. hau

form of quills from around Huanuco in Peru. Written also formerly

It is the produce of Cinchona micrantha. Howitz. dah.] A seat erected on the back of an

Howk, Houk (houk), v.t. (Scotch.) (Sw. Hub (hub), 1. [See HOB.] 1. The central holka, to make hollow.] 1. To dig; to make

part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel in which hollow.-2. To burrow.

the spokes are set radially; the nave. Hubs Howker (hou’kér), n. Naut. same as Hooker.

are of various shapes, several of which are
Howl (houl), v.i.' [Apparently an imitative
word; comp. L.G. hulen, D. huilen, G. heu-
len, Dan. hyle, to howl; also as similar forms,
L. ululo, Gr. ololyzi, Heb. yalal, to wail, to
howl.] 1. To utter a natural cry of a loud,
protracted, and mournful sound, as that of
a dog or wolf; to produce any similar sound,
as the wind.

Hubs of Wheels.
Methought a legion of foul fiends
Environd me, and howled in mine ears. Shak. shown in the accompanying cut. -2. A block
2. To wail; to lament.

of wood for stopping a carriage wheel. Ye rich men, weep and howl. Jam. v. 1.

3. A mark at which quoits, &c., are cast.

4. The hilt of a weapon; as, to drive a dagger Howl (houl), v.t. To utter in a loud or

up to the hub.-5. Any rough protuberance mournful tone.

or projection; as, a hub in the road. (United Go... howl it out in deserts. Philips. States.) – 6. In die - sinking, a cylindrical Howdah.

Howl (houl), n. 1. The cry of a dog or wolf piece of steel on which the design for a coin

or other like sound.--2. A cry of distress; a is engraved in relief. 7. A fluted screw of elephant for two or more persons to ride in. shriek.

hardened steel, adapted to be placed on a It is of various forms, and usually covered

She raves, she runs with a distracted pace,

mandrel between the centres of a lathe. overhead.

And fills with horrid howls the public place. notched to present cutting edges, and used Howdie, Howdy (hou'di), n. [Perhaps from

Dryden.

Howler (houl'ér), n. Icel, huga, to attend to look after (A. Sax.

in cutting screw-tools, chasing-tools, &c. 1. One who howls.

Hubble-bubble (hub'l-bub'l), n. A kind of 2. The Mycetes Ursinus, a large prehensilehogian, to care for), and deigja, N. deia, a

tobacco - pipe so arservant-maid (same as -dy in lady).] A mid- tailed monkey of South America, so called

ranged that the smoke wife. [Scotch.) from its loud and hideous voice, due to the

passes through water, Howe (hou), n. A hollow place; a hollow. great development of the hyoid bone.

making a bubbling (Scotch.] Howlet (hou let), n. [From oulet, with h

noise-hence its name. Howel (hou'el), n. (Comp. Dan hövl, G. prefixed through the influence of howl; or

It is an eastern invenhobel, a plane; root of hew.] A cooper's tool the same word as Fr. hulotte, an owl, from

tion, and in India and for smoothing their work, as the inside of O Fr. huler, to howl.) An owl; an owlet.

Egypt is often formed [Old English and Scotch.) a cask.

of the shell of a cocoaHowever (hou-ev'ér), adv. 1. In whatever Howling (houl'ing), a. Filled with howls or

nut, with the stem of manner or degree; in whatever state; as, howling beasts; dreary.

the tobacco - pipe inhowever good or bad the style may be.- Innumerable artifices and stratagems are acted in

serted at one part, and the howling wilderness and in the great deep, that 2. At all events; in any case; at least.

Addison. can never come to our knowledge.

a reed for a mouthOur chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be,

piece at another. The however from the greatest evils. Tillotson. Howm (houm), n. A holm. [Scotch. ]

shell is partially filled However (hou-ev'èr), conj. Nevertheless; Howqua (hou’kwa), a. (After Houqua, a

Hubble-bubble. with water, and the notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I celebrated Hong-Kong merchant who died

smoke drawn through it. shall not oppose your design; I cannot how- in 1846.) A term applied to a kind of tea Hubbub (hubbub), n. A great noise of many ever approve of it. of very fine quality.

confused voices; a tumult; uproar; riot. You might howe'er have took a fairer way. Howry (hou'ri), a. Nasty; filthy. Tennyson.

A universal huboud wild Dryden. [Provincial English.]

Of stunning sounds and voices all confused. However, but, yet, still, notwithstanding, and Howsot (hou-so'), adv. Howsoever; how

Milton nevertheless are termed in grammar adversative

ever. And welcome home, howso unfor- Hubbubboo (hub-bub-bö), n. A howling conjunctions, because they join sentences together which stand more or less in opposition to each other. tunate.' Daniel.

Hubby (hub'i), a. Full of hubs or projecting However, still, and nevertheless are commonly re- Howsoever (hou - ső-ev'er), adv. [Com- protuberances; as, a hubby road. [United garded as adverbs; but in some forms in which they pounded of how, 80, and ever.] 1. In what States.) are used they may be more properly styled conjunctions; and all these terms may be used in the same

manner soever. — 2. Although; notwith- Huckt (huk), v.i. [G. höcken, höken, to manner, though there is a difference in their disjunc. standing.

higgle. See HUCESTER, HAWKER.] To higgle tive power, as may be seen in the following sentence I dare say you love him not so ill to wish him here in trading by substituting any one of the other terms for how- alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's A near, and hard, and hucking chapman shall ever-'I do not build my reasoning wholly on the minds.

Shak. never buy good flesh.

Hales.

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Huck (huk), n. A kind of river trout found term; colour is strictly artistic and scien- Huffy (huf'i), a. 1. Puffed up; swelled; as, in Germany. tific.

hutty bread. -- 2. Characterized by arrogance, Huckaback (huk'a-bak), n. A kind of linen Hue (hū), n. [Fr. huer, to hoot, to shout. ] bluster, or petulance; as, a huffy person.

cloth with raised figures on it something A shouting or vociferation: used only in the Hug (hug), v.t. pret. & pp. hugged; ppr. like damask, used for table-cloths and phrase hue and cry. In law, a hue and cry hugging. [Origin doubtful. It may be contowels.

is the pursuit of a felon or offender with nected with A. Sax, hogian, hugian, to think, Huckle (huk'l), 12. (Connected with hook; loud outcries or clamour to give an alarm. to be anxious, Icel, huga, to mind, hugth, comp. hucklebacked, hucklebone.) The hip; This procedure is taken by a person robbed love, affection, hugna, to please, hugga, to a bunch or part projecting like the hip. or otherwise injured, to pursue and get pos- soothe, to comfort; D. hugen, to coax. Hucklebacked ( huk'l-bakt), a. Having session of the culprit's person.

At com- Wedgwood, referring to an old meaning, to round shoulders; hump-backed.

mon law, a private person who has been shrink or shrug, connects it with the interHuckleberry (huk'l-be-ri), n. A name for robbed, or who knows that a felony has been jection ugh.] 1. To press closely with the the different species of Gaylussacia, belong- committed, is bound to raise hue and cry, arms; to embrace closely; to clasp to the ing to the nat. order Vacciniaceæ, as also for under pain of fine and imprisonment. Al- breast; to grasp or gripe. * And hugged the fruit. The leaves of the plants are ter- though the term itself has in a great mea- me in his arms. Shak-2. To cherish in minated by a hard spine; the corolla is tubu- sure fallen into disuse, it is the process still the mind; to hold fast; to treat with fondlar, distended at the base, and the stamens recognized by the law of England as a ness; as, to hug delusions. --3. To keep close are inserted into the calyx, the anthers being means of arresting felons without the war- to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind. without horns. The ovary is inferior, and rant of a justice of the peace. When hue To hug one's self, to congratulate one's self; the fruit succulent, crowned by the limb of and cry is raised. all persons, as well con- to chuckle. the calyx, with ten one-seeded stones. Called stables as others, are bound to join in the Hug (hug), v.i. To lie close; to crowd toalso Whortleberry. (United States. ]

pursuit and assist in the capture of the gether; to cuddle; as, to hug with swine. Hucklebone (huk1-bon), n. The hip-bone. felon.

Shak.
The hip wherein the joint doth inove Hued (hūd), a. Having a hue or colour. Hug (hug), n. A close embrace; a clasp or
The thigh, 'tis called the hucklebone.

Huel (hü'el), n. The Cornish name for a gripe.
Chapman. mine; specifically, for a tin-

mine. Generally Huge (hūj), a. 10. E. huge, also hogge, from Huckster (huk'stér), n. [From huck, to written Wheal.

0. Fr. ahuge, huge, vast, the origin of this higgle. ] 1. A retailer of small articles, of Hueless (hü'les), a. Destitute of hue or word being unknown. Skeat.] 1. Having provisions, nuts, and the like; a hawker. - colour.

an immense bulk; very large or great; enor2. A mean, trickish fellow.

Huer (hü'ér), n. One whose business is to mous; as, a huge mountain; a huge ox. Huckster (huk'stér), v.i. To deal in small cry out or give an alarm; specifically, a 2. Very great in any respect; possessing articles or in petty bargains.

fisherman stationed on a high point to give some one characteristic in a high degree; Some huckstering fellow who follows that trade. notice of the approach of a shoal of fish or as, a huge space; a huge difference. A huge Swift of their movements.

feeder.' Shak. Huckster (huk'stér), v.t. To expose to sale; Huert (hu'ért), n. In her. same as Hurt. He took the hugest pains to adorn his big person. to make a matter of bargain. Huff (huf), n." (Possibly an imitative word

Thackeray. Some who had been called from shops and ware. meaning originally to blow, to puff; comp.

SYN. Enormous, gigantic, colossal, immense, houses, without other merit, to sit in supreme coun. E, whilf, or it may be connected with E. prodigious. cils, (as their breeding was) sell to huckster the com

heave, hoven, swelled out.] 1. A swell of Hugely (hūj'li), adv. In a huge manner; monwealth.

Milton.

sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of peevish- very greatly; enormously; immensely. Hucksterage (huk'stér-āj), n. The busi

ness or petulance; anger at some offence, Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea? Shak. ness of a huckster; petty dealing. real or fancied.

Hugeness (hūjnes), n. The state of being Ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton.

A Spaniard was wonderfully upon the huff about huge; enormous bulk or largeness; as, the Hucksterer (huk'stér-ér), n. A huckster. his extraction.

L'Estrange.

hugeness of a mountain or of an elephant. Those huck sterers or money-jobbers will be found 2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion My mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of necessary if this brass money is made current. of his own value or importance.

your unworthy thinking.

Shak. Swill. Huckstress (huk'stres), n.

Lewd shallow-brained huff's make atheism and Hugeous (hūj'us), a. Huge. "Hugeous A female huck

contempt of religion the sole badge and character of ster or pedlar.

length of trunk.' Byrom. wit.

South. Hud (hud), n. (Form of hood.) The shell

Hugger (hug'ér), n. One who hugs or em

3. In draughts, the removal of a player's braces. or hull of a nut. (Provincial.)

piece from the board when he refuses or Huddle (hudl), v.i. pret. & pp. huddled;

Huggert (hug'ėr), v.i. To lie in ambush; to neglects to capture one or more of his opppr. huddling. (Comp. G. hudeln, to move

lurk. Bp. Hall. ponent's undefended pieces. backwards and forwards, to do a thing Huff (huf), v.t. 1. To swell; to enlarge; to

Hugger-mugger (hug'ger-mug' ger), n. hastily and carelessly, to bungle; D. hoete

(Comp. hugger, to lie in ambush. Wedgwood puff up. len, to bungle.) To crowd; to press to

connects it with G. mucken, Swiss muggeln,

In many wild birds, the diaphragm may easily be gether promiscuously without order or regu

to murmur, N. mugg, secrecy, mugge, to do huffed up with air.

Grew. larity, from confusion, fear, and the like:

anything in secret; Banffshire hudge-mudge, 2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to to press or hurry in disorder. Shak.

suppressed talking in a low tone,and huschke chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; Huddling together on the public square ... like

muschle, a state of great confusion.) Privacy; a herd of panic-struck deer.

to bully. Prescott.

secrecy.-In hugger-mugger, (a) in privacy Huddle (hud'l), v.t. 1. To throw together in

You must not presume to huft us. Echard. or secrecy. confusion; to crowd together without order. 3. In draughts, to remove, as an adversary's

While I, in hugger-mugger hid,

Hudibras.

Have noted all they said and did. 'Huddling jest upon jest upon me.' Shak. piece, from the board because he has not Our adversary, huddling several suppositions to

taken another when opportunity offered. (6) In confusion; with slovenliness. (Low gether ... makes a medley and confusion. Locke. Huff (hu), v.i. 1. To dilate or enlarge; to

and colloq.) 2. To perform in haste and disorder; to make, swell up; as, the bread huffs.-2. To swell Hugger-mugger (hug'ger-mug' ger), a. put together, produce in a hurried manner: with anger, pride, or arrogance; to bluster;

1. Clandestine; sly; unfair; mean.--2. Conoften with up; as, to huddle up a peace. to storm; to take offence.

fused; without order; slovenly; as, he works Let him forecast his work with timely care,

This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made

in a very hugger-mugyer fashion. Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. them huff at the doctrine of repentance. South. Hugglet (hug'gl), v.t. To hug; to embrace.

Dryden.
A huting, shining, flattering, cringing coward.

Holland. 3. To put away hastily and carelessly.

Otway. Huguenot (hū'ge-not), n. [A French word Himn they crush down and huddle underground. 3. In draughts, to remove an adversary's of doubtful origin. Of the various deriva

Carlyle, man from the board because he has not 4. To put on in haste and disorder: usually

tions proposed none is more probable than taken another with it when the opportunity with on; as, to huddle on one's clothes.

that the word is a corruption of the G. eid. was given. Huddle (hudl), n. 1.7 A miser; a niggard. | Huff (huf), a. Angry; huffish. Gay.

geno88, a confederate. Various early forms, Lyly. 2. A crowd; a number of persons Huff-capt (huf'kap), 1.

such as eidguenot, enguenot, anguenot, are

1. A cant term for found. Probably the word was ignorantly or things crowded together without order

strong ale.-2. A swaggerer; a blusterer, a assimilated to the proper name Hugues, or regularity; tumult; confusion. A huddle bully.

Hugh. See supplement to Littré's Dictionof ideas. Addison. Huddler (hud'ler), n. One who huddles or

As for you, Colonel Huff-cap, we shall try before a ary.) A French Protestant of the period of

civil magistrate who's the greatest plotter. Dryden. the religious wars in France in the sixteenth throws things together in confusion.

Huff-cap + (huf'kap), a. Of or pertaining to Tuddling (hud'ling), p. and u.

century. Confused.

a huff-cap or blusterer; swaggering; bluster- Huguenotism (hū’ge-not-izm), n. The reBrown answered after his blunt and huddling ing.

ligion of the Huguenots in France. Bacon.

Huff-cap terms and thundering threats. Bp. Hall. Iudibrastic (hū-di-bras'tik), a.

Hugy (hüj'i), a. [From huge.] Vast in size. A bully; a swaggerer; a

Ilugy bulk. Dryden. taining to, or resembling Hudibras, a satire Huffer (huf'er), n.

blusterer. against the Puritans by Samuel Butler, pub

Huishert (hwe'sher), n. [Fr. huissier, an lished in 1663. Huffiness (huf'i-nes), n. The state of being Huishert (hwė'shér), v.t.

usher.] An usher. See USHER.

To usher. Jer. Hue (hú), n. [A. Sax. hiw, heou, Sw. hy: Huffingly (huf'ing-li), adv. Swaggeringly; Huke (hūk), n. A cloak; a heuk (which see). huffy or puffed up; petulance: irritation.

Taylor. colour.) 1. Colour, or shade of colour; dye; tint. “Flow'rs of all hue.' Milton.---

blusteringly; arrogantly. 2. In painting, a compound colour in which The sword at thy haunch was a huge black blade,

As we were thus in conference, there came one one of the primaries predominates, as the

With a great basket-hilt of iron made;

that seemed to be a messenger in a rich huke.

Bacon. various grays, which are composed of the

But now a long rapier doth hang by his side,
And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride.

Hulcht (hulch), n. [Form of hunch.) A three primary colours in unequal strength

Old ballad. hunch or hump. and proportion. -Colour, Hue. The colours Huffish (huf'ish), a. Arrogant; insolent; Hulch-backed i (hulch bakt), a. Crookedare properly the seven primary colours pro- hectoring.

backed. duced by the decomposition of white light Huffishly (huf'ish-li), adv. In a huffish Hulched † (hulcht), a. Swollen; puffed up. by means of a colourless prism. Hue is

manner; with arrogance or blustering. Hulchyt (hulch'i), a. Much swollen; gibstrictly speaking a compound of one or Huffishness (huf'ish-nes), n. The state of bous. more colours forming an intervenient shade. being huffish; arrogance; petulance; noisy | Hulfere,+ n. [Comp. Icel, hulfr, dogwood.] Hue is a vague, conversational, or poetical bluster.

Holly. Chaucer.

manner.

Of or per

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HUMBLE

Hulk (hulk), n. (A. Sax. hulce, a light-ship, Such (sermons) as are most hummed and applauded. from his maintaining the perfectibility of

sillon. D. hulk, G. hulk, holk, a kind of ship; Sw.

human nature without the aid of grace. holk, a ship of burden; Icel. hylki, a hulk;

Hence---3. + To trick or delude by flattery, Humanitarian (hu-man'i-ta"ri-an), a. Perperhaps from L.L. olca, from Gr. holkas, soothing, or coaxing; to impose on; to ca

taining to humanitarians or humanitariana ship of burden, a ship which is towed, jole.

ism. from 'helko, to draw.] 11 A ship, particu: Hum (hum), n. 1. The noise of bees in flight; Humanitarianism (hū-man’i-tā”ri-an-izm), larly a heavy ship. of a spinning top, of a whirling wheel, and

n. 1. Humanity; philanthropy. — 2. The the like; a buzz. -2. Any inarticulate, low, As when the mast of some well-tiinber'd hulke,

doctrine that Jesus Christ was possessed Is with the blast of some outrageous storie murmuring, or buzzing sound; as, (a) a low

of a human nature only.-3. The doctrine Blown down, it shakes the bottom of the bulke. confused noise, as of a crowd, heard at a dis

of St. Simon and his disciples that mankind Spenser tance; as, the busy hum of men. 2. The body of a ship or decked vessel of

may become perfect without divine aid. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, Humanitiant (hū-ma-ni'shan), it. any kind; particularly, the body of an old

A huThe hum of either arıny stilly sounds. Shak.

manist. B. Jonson. ship or vessel which is laid by as unfit for

(6) A low inarticulate sound uttered by a Humanity (hū-man'i-ti), n. (Fr. humanité, service.—3. Anything bulky or unwieldy. speaker in a pause from embarrassment,

L. humanitas, from humanus. See HUMAN. ] The hulk of a tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood

affectation, and the like; as, hums and haws. in the corner of a street, shadowed me from notice.

1. The quality of being human; the peculiar (c) A buzz or murmur of applause or approB. Hall.

nature of man, by which he is distinguished --The hulks,old or dismasted ships, formerly bation.

from other beings. -2. Mankind collectively: used as prisons.

The hum with which Williarn's speech had been the human race.

received, and the hiss which had drowned the voice Hulk (hulk), v.t. [Comp. Sc. howk, holk, to of Seymour, had been misunderstood. Macaulay. Humanity must perforce prey on itself. Shak. dig, as a pit.] 1. To take out the entrails of; 3. An imposition or hoax; humbug.

If he is able to untie those knots, he is able to as, to hulk a hare. (Rare. 1-2. In mining, see

teach all humanity.

Glanvilie. DYHN.

I daresay all this is hum, and that all will come back.

3. The quality of being humane; the kind

Lamb.
Hulky + (hulk'i), a. Bulky; unwieldy.
Hull (hul), n. (A. Sax, hule, hulu, a hull or
Hum (hum), interj. A sound with a pause,

feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of husk; comp. A. Sax. helan, to conceal, G. implying doubt and deliberation; ahem.

man; kindness; benevolence; especially, a hülle, a covering, hüllen, Goth. huljan, to Humt (hum), n. [Probably from its causing

disposition to relieve persons in distress,

and to treat all created beings with tendercover; also W. hül, a cover, huliaw, to cover.]

a buzzing or humming in the head.) Å 1. The outer covering of anything, particustrongly intoxicating liquor supposed to

ness: opposed to cruelty. larly of a nut or of grain; the husk. —2. The have been made by mixing beer or ale and

True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear:

it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of ardent spirits. frame or body of a ship, exclusive of her

misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. masts, yards, and rigging. Hull down

Human (hü'man), a. (Fr. humain, L. hu- True humanity appertains rather to the mind than (naut.), a term applied to a ship when she

manus, from homo, hominis, a man; akin to to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active is at such a distance from an observer that humus, the ground; also to A. Sax. guma, a

measures to execute the actions which it suggests.

C. Far. only her masts and sails are to be seen. man.] 1. Belonging to man or mankind;

4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; inHuli (hul), v.t. 1. To strip off or separate the having the qualities or attributes of man;

struction in classical and polite literature. hull or hulls of; as, to hull grain.

as, a human voice; human shape; human 2. To

5. Classical and polite literature; a branch pierce the hull of, as a ship with a cannonnature; human knowledge; human life.

of such literature, as philology, grammar, ball.

It will never be asked whether he be a gentleman

rhetoric, poetry, the study of the ancient born, but whether he be a human creature. Swirl Hull (hul), v.i. To float or drive on the

classics, and the like. In this sense generwater, like the hull of a ship, without sails.

2. + Profane; not sacred or divine; secular. ally used in the plural with the definite Mar.-Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.

Human authors.' Sir T. Browne.

article prefixed-the humanities:' but in V'io.-No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little

Human (hü'man), n. A human being; a Scotland used in the singular and applied to longer.

Shak.

member of the family of mankind. 'Sprung Latin and Latin literature alone; as, a proHullabaloo (hulla-ba-lo), n. (Imitative of

of humans that inhabit earth.' Chapman. fessor of humanity. confused noise. Comp. hurly-burly.) Up[Rare.)

Philological studies, when philology was restricted

In this world of ours, we humans often find roar; noisy confusion.

to the cultivation of the languages, literature, history, Huller (hul'ér), n. One who or that which

ourselves, we cannot tell how, in strange positions. and archeology of Greece and Rome. were very

Prof. Wilson. hulls; specifically, a machine for separating Humanatet (hū’man-āt), a.

commonly called litera humaniores, or, in English,

Endued with the humanities, and it is the conviction of their seeds from their hulls. humanity.

value as a moral and intellectual discipline which has Hullo (hul-lo'), interj. An exclamation to

led scholars almost universally to ascribe the origin

of your saying it followeth, that the bread is hucall attention. Same as Holla.

of this appellation to a sense of their refining, elevat: manate or incarnate.

Cranmer.

ing, and humanizing influence. This, however, I Hullock (hul’ok), n. Naut. a small part

think is an erroneous etymology. They were called of a sail lowered in a gale to keep the ship's Humane (hū-mān), a. [See Human.) 1. Be

litcrae humaniores, the humanities, by way of ophead to the sea. longing to man; human.

position to the litere divina, or divinity, the two Hully (hul'i), a. Having husks or pods;

When we had been taught all the mysterious studies, philology and theoloxy, then completing the

articles, we could not, by any humane power, have circle of scholastic knowledge, which, at the period siliquous.

understood them.

Fer. Taylor. of the introduction of the phrase, scarcely included Kuloist (hūlo-ist), n. Same as Hyloist.

any branch of physical science, G. P. Marsh. Hulotheism (hü'lo-the-izm), n. Same as

2. Having the feelings and dispositions proHylotheism.

per to man; having tenderness, compassion, Humanization (hū’man-iz-ā"shon), n. The Hulsean (huls'ē-an), a.

Eccles, a term ap

and a disposition to treat other human act of humanizing. Coleridge. The huplied to a series of lectures on divinity,

manization of our manners.' Priestley. beings and the lower animals with kindness; annually delivered at Cambridge, in accord

kind; benevolent. 3. Tending to humanize Humanize, Humanise (hü'man-iz), r.t. ance with certain provisions in the will of

or refine; hence, applied to the elegant or pret. & pp. humanized; ppr. humanizing. John Hulse of Elworth. polite branches of literature, especially

1. To render humane; to subdue any tenHulstred, t pp. [A. Sax. heolster, dark or a

philology, rhetoric, poetry, the study of the dency to cruelty, and render susceptible of dark place.) Hidden Chaucer, ancient classics, &c.

kind feelings; to soften. Hulver (hul'vėr), n.

He was well skilled in all kinds of humane literature. Was it the business of magic to humanise our (O. E. hulfere, holly;

Il cod.
natures?

Addison.
Icel. hulfr, dogwood.] The conimon holly,
Ilex Aquifolium.

Syn. Kind, benevolent, tender-hearted, 2. To render human; to give a human char

tender, compassionate, merciful, sympaHum (hum), v.i. pret. & pp. hummed; ppr.

acter or expression to; to invest with the thetic.

character of humanity. humming. (Comp. G. hummen, allied to Humanely (hū-mān'li), adv. In a humane

That air of victorious serenity which art imprints summen, D. hommelen, to hum as bees :

manner; with kindness, tenderness, or com- on brow and face and form of its beautiful human. formed from the so nd.) 1. To make a dull, passion; as, the prisoners were treated hu- ised divinities.

Dr. Caird. prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; manely.

Humanize, Humanise (hü'man-iz), r. i. To to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top | Humaneness (hū-mān'nes), n. The quality become more huniane; to become more hums. of being humane; tenderness.

civilized. Humming rivers, by his cabin creeping, Rock soft his slumbering thoughts in quiet ease.

Humanics (hū-man'iks), n. The study of By the original law of nations, war and extirpation P. Fletcher human nature or of matters relating to hu

were the punishinent of injury. Humanizing by de2. To give utterance to a similar sound with

grees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further manity. Collins.

step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. the mouth; as, (a) to make an inarticulate Humanify (hū-man'i-fī), v.t. (L. humanus,

Franklin murmuring or droning sound as if speaking, human, and facio, to make.) To render Humanizer (hū’man-iz-ér), n. One who hubut without opening the lips; to mumble. human; to invest with human form; to manizes. The cloudy messenger turns me his back, incarnate. H. B. Wilson

Humankind (hū'man-kind), n. The race of And hums.

Shak. Humanism (hü'man-izm), n. 1. Human man; mankind; the human species. In my ears, my father's word nature or disposition; humanity.

A knowledge both of books and humankind, Pope. Hummer ignorantly, as the sea in shells.

A general disposition of mind, belonging to a man
E. B. Browning.

Humanly (hū’man-li), adv. 1. In a human as such, is termed humanism.

Meyer. (6) To make a drawling, inarticulate sound

manner; after the manner of men; accord2. Polite learning. in the process of speaking, from embarrass

ing to the opinions or knowledge of men; ment or affectation. Humanist (hu'man-ist), n. 1. One who pur

as, the present prospects, humanly speaksues the study of the humanities.--2. One He kummed and hawed. Hudibras.

ing, promise a happy issue.-2. Kindly; huversed in the knowledge of human nature. (c) To express applause or approbation by

manely. Shaftesbury. emitting a low prolonged sound or murmur.

Modestly bold and humanly severe. Pope Humanistic (hū-man-ist'ik), a.

Of or per

Humationt (hum-a'shon). n. Interment. When Burnet preached, part of his congregation taining to humanity. hummed so loudly and so long that he sat down to

Humbird (hum'bėrd), n. Same as HummingJohnson. enjoy it.

No mystic dreains of ascetic piety had come to bird (which see).

trouble the tranquillity of its humanistic devotion. Hum (hum), v. t. 1. To sing in a low voice;

Dr. Caird.

Humble (hum'bl), a. (Fr.; L. humilis, from to murmur without articulation; to mumble; Humanitarian (hū- man'i-tā"ri-an), n. humus, the earth.) 1. Not high or lofty; as, to hum an air. [From humanity.) 1. One who has a great

low; unpretending; mean; as, a humble And far below the Roundhead rode

regard or love for humanity; a philan- place or cottage. A humble gait.' Shak. And hummed a surly hymn. Tennyson, thropist.–2. One who denies the divinity

Above her and her humble love. Shak. 2. To express approbation of, or applaud, of Christ, and believes him to have been a Thy humble nest built on the ground. Couley. as by a hum.

mere man.-3. A disciple of Saint Simon, 2. Having a low estimate of one's self; not

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