HIA'TUS, noun [Latin from hio, to open or gape.]

1. An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm.

2. The opening of the mouth in reading or speaking, when a word ends with a vowel, and the following word begins with a vowel.

3. A defect; a chasm in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced.

HI'BERNACLE, noun [Latin hibernacula, winter-quarters.]

1. In botany, the winter-quarters of a plant, that is, a bulb or a bud, in which the embryo of a future plant is inclosed by a scaly covering and protected from injuries during winter.

2. The winter-lodge of a wild animal.

HIBERN'AL, adjective [Latin hibernus.] Belonging or relating to winter.

HI'BERNATE, verb intransitive [Latin hiberno.] To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters or in seclusion, as birds or beasts.

HIBERNA'TION, noun The passing of winter in a close lodge, as beasts and fowls that retire in cold weather.

HIBER'NIAN, adjective Pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland.

HIBER'NIAN, noun A native of Ireland.

HIBERN'ICISM, noun An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.

HIC'COUGH

HICK'ORY, noun A tree, a species of Juglans or walnut. Its nut is called hickory-nut.

HICK'ORY, n. A tree, a species of Juglans or walnut. Its nut is called hickory-nut.

HICK'UP, noun [The English is a compound of hic and cough; and hic may be allied to hitch, to catch. The word is generally pronounced hick-up.]

A spasmodic affection of the stomach, esophagus, and muscles subservient to deglutition.

Convulsive catch of the respiratory muscles, with sonorous inspiration; repeated at short intervals.

HIC'COUGH

HICK'UP, verb intransitive To have a spasmodic affection of the stomach from repletion or other cause.

HICK'WALL

HICK'WAY, noun A small species of woodpecker.

HICK'WAY, n. A small species of woodpecker.

HID

HI'DAGE, noun [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

HI'DAGE, n. [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

HIDAL'GO, noun In Spain, a man of noble birth.

HID'DEN, participle passive of hide. Concealed; placed in secrecy.

1. Secret; unseen.

2. Mysterious.

HID'DENLY, adverb In a hidden or secret manner.

HIDE, verb transitive preterit tense hid; participle passive hid, hidden.

1. To conceal; to withhold or withdraw from sight; to place in any state or position in which the view is intercepted from the object. The intervention of the moon between the earth and the sun hides the latter from our sight. The people in Turkey hide their grain in the earth. No human being can hide his crimes or his neglect of duty from his Maker.

2. To conceal from knowledge; to keep secret.

Depart to the mountains; hide yourselves there three days. Joshua 2:16.

Tell me now what thou hast done--hide it not from me. Joshua 7:19.

3. In Scripture, not to confess or disclose; or to excuse and extenuate.

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. Psalms 32:1.

4. To protect; to keep in safety.

In the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion. Psalms 27:5.

To hide the face from, to overlook; to pardon.

HIDE thy face from my sins. Psa 51.

To hide the face, to withdraw spiritual presence, support and consolation.

Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. Psa 30.

To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection.

The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself. Proverbs 22:1.

HIDE, verb intransitive To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight.

Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide

HIDE and seek, a play of boys, in which some hide themselves and another seeks them.

HIDE, noun In the ancient laws of England, a certain portion of land, the quantity of which however is not well ascertained. Some authors consider it as the quantity that could be tilled with one plow; others, as much as would maintain a family. Some suppose it to be 60, some 80, and others 100 acres.

HIDE, noun [Latin cutis; Gr. either a peel, from stripping, separating, or a cover.]

1. The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; more generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

2. The human skin; in contempt.

HI'DEBOUND, adjective A horse is hidebound when his skin sticks so closely to his ribs and back, as not to be easily loosened or raised.

Trees are said to be hidebound when the bark is so close or firm that it impedes the growth.

1. Harsh; untractable. [Not used.]

2. Niggardly; penurious. [Not used.]

HID'EOUS, adjective

1. Frightful to the sight; dreadful; shocking to the eye; applied to deformity; as a hideous monster; a hideous spectacle; hideous looks.

2. Shocking to the ear; exciting terror; as a hideous noise.

3. Detestable.

HID'EOUSLY, adverb In a manner to frighten; dreadfully; shockingly.

HID'EOUSNESS, noun Frightfulness to the eye; dreadfulness; horribleness.

HI'DER, noun [from hide.] One who hides or conceals.

HI'DING, participle present tense Concealing; covering or withdrawing from view; keeping close or secret.

HI'DING, noun Concealment. Habakkuk 3:4.

1. Withdrawment; a withholding; as the hidings of God's face.

HIE, verb intransitive

1. To hasten; to move or run with haste; to go in haste; a word chiefly used in poetry.

The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.

2. With the reciprocal pronoun; as, hie thee home.

HIE, noun Haste; diligence.

HI'ERARCH, noun [Gr. sacred, and a ruler or prince.]

The chief of a sacred order; particularly, the chief of an order of angels.

HIERARCH'AL, adjective Belonging to a hierarch.

HIERARCH'ICAL, adjective Belonging to a sacred order, or to ecclesiastical government.

HI'ERARCHY, noun An order or rank of angels or celestial beings; or a subordination of holy beings. Some of the Rabbins reckon four, and others ten hierarchies, or orders of angels.

1. Constitution and government of the christian church, or ecclesiastical polity, comprehending different orders of clergy; as the hierarchy of England.

HI'EROGLYPH

HIEROGLYPH'IC, noun [Gr. sacred, and to carve.]

1. In antiquity, a sacred character; a mystical character or symbol, used in writings and inscriptions, particularly by the Egyptians, as signs of sacred, divine, or supernatural things. The hieroglyphics were figures of animals, parts of the human body, mechanical instruments, etc., which contained a meaning known only to kings and priests. It is supposed they were used to vail morality, politics, etc., from vulgar eves.

2. Pictures intended to express historical facts; supposed to be the primitive mode of writing.

3. The art of writing in picture.

HIEROGLYPH'IC

HIEROGLYPH'IC, n. [Gr. sacred, and to carve.]

HIEROGLYPH'IC

HIEROGLYPH'ICAL, adjective Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures or figures, as hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.

HIEROGLYPH'ICALLY, adverb Emblematically; by characters or pictures expressive of facts or moral qualities. The Mexicans wrote history hieroglyphically

HI'EROGRAM, noun [Gr. sacred, and letter.]

A species of sacred writing.

HIEROGRAMMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. sacred, and letter.] Denoting a kind of writing in sacred or sacerdotal characters, used only by the priests in Egypt.

HIEROGRAM'MATIST, noun A writer of hieroglyphics.

HIEROGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to sacred writing.

HIEROGRAPHI'IC

HIEROG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. holy, and to write.]

Sacred writing. [Little used.]

HIEROG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. holy, and to write.]

Sacred writing. [Little used.]

HIEROL'OGY, noun [Gr.] A discourse on sacred things.

HIEROM'ANCY, noun [Gr. sacred, and divination.] Divination by observing the various things offered in sacrifice.

HIEROM'NEMON, noun [Gr. sacred, and preserving memory.]

In ancient Greece, a magistrate who presided over the sacred rites and solemnities, etc.

HI'EROPHANT, noun [Gr. sacred, and to show.] A priest; one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion.

HIG'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin cocio.]

1. To carry provisions about and offer them for sale.

2. To chaffer; to be difficult in making a bargain.

It argues an ignorant mind, where we have wronged to higgle and dodge in the amends.

HIG'GLER, noun One who carries about provisions for sale.

1. One who chaffers in bargaining.

HIGH, adjective hi.

1. Extending a great distance above the surface of the earth; elevated; lofty; of great altitude; as a high mountain; a high tower.

2. Rising, or having risen, or being far above the earth; elevated; lofty; as a high flight; the clouds are high in the atmosphere.

3. Elevated above the horizon; as, how high is the sun? It is an hour high

4. Raised above any object.

HIGH o'er their heads a moldering rock is placed.

5. Exalted in nature or dignity.

The highest faculty of the soul.

6. Elevated in rank, condition or office. We speak of high and low; of a high office; high rank; high station; a high court.

7. Possessing or governed by honorable pride; noble; exalted; magnanimous; dignified; as a man of a high mind.

8. Exalted in excellence or extent.

Solomon lived at ease, nor aimed beyond

HIGHer design than to enjoy his state.

9. Difficult; abstruse.

They meet to hear, and answer such high things.

10. Boastful; ostentatious.

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.

11. Arrogant; proud; lofty; loud.

The governor made himself merry with his high and threatening language.

12. Loud; boisterous; threatening or angry. The parties had very high words.

13. Violent; severe; oppressive.

When there appeareth on either side a high hand, violent persecution. etc.

14. Public; powerful; triumphant; glorious; or under divine protection.

The children of Israel went out of Egypt with a high hand. Exodus 14:8.

15. Noble; illustrious; honorable; as a man of high birth.

16. Expressive of pride and haughtiness; as high looks. Isaiah 10:12.

17. Powerful; mighty.

Strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand. Psalms 89:13.

18. Possessed of supreme power, dominion or excellence.

Thou, Lord, art high above all the earth. Psalms 97:9.

19. Great; important; solemn; held in veneration.

For that sabbath-day was a high day. John 19:31.

20. Violent; rushing with velocity; tempestuous; as a high wind.

21. Tumultuous; turbulent; inflamed; violent; as high passions.

22. Full; complete. It is high time to retire.

It is high time to awake from sleep. Romans 13:11.

23. Raised; accompanied by, or proceeding from great excitement of the feelings; as high pleasure of body or mind.

24. Rich; luxurious; well seasoned; as high fare; high living; high sauces.

25. Strong; vivid; deep; as a high color.

26. Dear; of a great price, or greater price than usual; as, to purchase at a high rate; goods are high

27. Remote from the equator north or south; as a high latitude.

28. Remote in past time; early in former time; as high antiquity.

29. Extreme; intense; as a high heat.

30. Loud; as a high sound. but more generally,

31. In music, acute; sharp; as a high note; a high voice; opposed to low or grave.

32. Much raised; as high relief [alto relievo.]

33. Far advanced in art or science; as high attainments.

34. Great; capital; committed against the king, sovereign or state; as high treason, distinguished from petty treason, which is committed against a master or other superior.

35. Great; exalted; as a high opinion of one's integrity.

HIGH church and low church, in Great Britain, a distinction introduced after the revolution. The high church were supposed to favor the papists, or at least to support the high claims to prerogative, which were maintained by the Stuarts. The low church entertained more moderate notions, manifested great enmity to popery, and were inclined to circumscribe the royal prerogatives. This distinction is now less marked, but not wholly obliterated.

HIGH day, high noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian.

HIGH Dutch, is the German language, as distinguished from Low Dutch or Belgic, or the cultivated German, as opposed to the vulgar dialects.

HIGH, noun An elevated place; superior region; as on high; from on high

On high aloud.

1. Aloft.

HIGHLAND, noun Elevated land; a mountainous region.

HIGHLANDs of Scotland, mountainous regions inhabited by the descendants of the ancient Celts, who retain their primitive language.

HIGHLANDs on the Hudson, sixty miles from New York. These afford most sublime and romantic scenery, and here is West Point, a fortified post during the revolution, and now the seat of one of the best military schools of the age.

HIGHLANDER, noun An inhabitant of the mountains; as the Highlanders of Scotland.

HIGHLANDISH, adjective Denoting high or mountainous land.

HIGHLY, adverb hi'ly. With elevation in place.

1. In a great degree.

We are highly favored.

Exercise is highly requisite to health.

2. Proudly; arrogantly; ambitiously.

3. With elevation of mind or opinion; with great estimation; as, to think highly of one's performances.

HIGHMOST, adjective Highest. [Not used.]

HIGHNESS, noun hi'ness. Elevation above the surface; loftiness; altitude; highth.

1. Dignity; elevation in rank, character or power.

2. Excellence; value.

3. Violence; as the highness of wind.

4. Great amount; as the highness of price.

5. Acuteness; as the highness of a note or voice.

6. Intenseness, as of heat.

7. A title of honor given to princes or other men of rank.

HIGHTH

HIGHT, noun [See Height.] Elevation; altitude; loftiness. [It is very desirable that this noun should be regularly formed from the adjective.]

Hight, to call, to promise, to command, etc., is a false orthography, from Saxon, hatan. It is obsolete. [See Heat.]

HIGHT, noun hite, or hith.

1. Elevation above the ground; any indefinite distance above the earth. The eagle flies at a great hight or highth.

2. The altitude of an object; the distance which any thing rises above its foot, basis or foundation; as the hight or highth of a tower or steeple.

3. Elevation of a star or other celestial luminary above the horizon.

4. Degree of latitude either north or south. In this application, the distance from the equator is considered as elevation. Latitudes are higher as they approach the pole.

Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south.

5. Distance of one thing above another.

6. An eminence; a summit; an elevated part of any thing.

7. A hill or mountain; any elevated ground; as the hights of Dorchester.

8. Elevation of rank; station of dignity or office.

By him that raised me to this careful height.

9. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts.

10. Elevation in fame or reputation.

11. Utmost degree in extent or violence; as the highth or hight of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly, of happiness, of good breeding. So we say, the hight of a tempest.

12. Utmost exertion.

I shall now put you to the height of your breeding.

13. Advance; degree; progress towards perfection or elevation; speaking comparatively.

Social duties are carried to a greater height--by the principles of our religion.

HIGHTH

HIGHWATER, noun The utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide;

also, the time of such elevation.

HIGHWATER, n. The utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide;

also, the time of such elevation.

HIGHWA'Y, noun A public road; a way open to all passengers; so called, either because it is a great or public road, or because the earth was raised to form a dry path. Highways open a communication from one city or town to another.

1. Course; road; train of action.

HIGHWA'YMAN, noun One who robs on the public road, or lurks in the highway for the purpose of robbing.

HILARATE, is not in use. [See Exhilarate.]

HILAR'ITY, noun [Latin hilaritas; Gr. joyful, merry.]

Mirth; merriment; gayety. hilarity differs from joy; the latter, excited by good news or prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the former, by social pleasure, drinking, etc., which rouse the animal spirits.

HILD, G. and D. held, Dan.heldt, a hero, is retained in names, as Hildebert, a bright hero; Mathild, Matilda, a heroic lady.

HILD'ING, noun A mean, sorry, paltry man or woman.

HILL, noun [Latin collis.]

1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence. A hill is less than a mountain, but of no definite magnitude, and is sometimes applied to a mountain. Jerusalem is seated on two hills. Rome stood on seven hills.

2. A cluster of plants, and the earth raised about them; as a hill of maiz or potatoes.

HILL, verb transitive To raise earth about plants; to raise a little mass of earth. Farmers in New England hill their maiz in July.

HILLing is generally the third hoeing.

1. To cover. [Latin celo.]

HILL'ED, participle passive or adjective Having hills.

HILL'ING, noun A covering.

1. The act of raising the earth around plants.

HILL'OCK, noun A small hill.

HILL'SIDE, noun The side or declivity of a hill.

HILL'Y, adjective Abounding with hills; as a hilly country.

HILT, noun The handle of any thing; but chiefly applied to the handle of a sword.

HILT'ED, adjective Having a hilt.

HI'LUM, noun The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar of the umbilical chord, by which the seed adheres to the pericarp.

HIM, pronoun The objective case of he, Latin eum, anciently em or im.

HIM that is weak in the faith receive. Romans 14:1.

HIM and his were formerly used for nouns of the neuter gender, but the practice is obsolete.

HIMSELF', pronoun In the nominative or objective case. [him and self.]

1. He; but himself is more emphatical, or more expressive of distinct personality than he.

With shame remembers, while himself was one

Of the same herd, himself the same had done.

2. When himself is added to he, or to a noun, it expresses discrimination of person with particular emphasis.

But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges 3:19.

But God himself is with us for our captain. 2 Chronicles 13:9.

3. When used as the reciprocal pronoun, it is not usually emphatical.

David hid himself in the field. 1 Samuel 20:24.

4. It was formerly used as a substitute for neuter nouns; as high as heaven himself [This use is now improper.]

5. It is sometimes separated from he; as, he could not go himself for he himself could not go.

6. himself is used to express the proper character, or natural temper and disposition of a person, after or in opposition to wandering of mind, irregularity, or devious conduct from derangement, passion or extraneous influence. We say, a man has come to himself after delirious or extravagant behavior. Let the man alone; let him act himself

By himself alone; unaccompanied; sequestered.

He sits or studies by himself

Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself 1 Kings 18:2.

HIN, noun [Heb.] A Hebrew measure of capacity containing the sixth part of an ephah, or about five quarts English measure.

HIND, noun The female of the red deer or stag.

HIND, noun A domestic; a servant.

1. A peasant; a rustic; or a husbandman's servant.

HIND, adjective Backward; pertaining to the part which follows; in opposition to the fore part; as the hind legs of a quadruped; the hind toes; the hind shoes of a horse; the hind part of an animal.

HINDBERRY, noun A species of Rubus.

HINDER, adjective comparative of hind. That is in a position contrary to that of the head or fore part; designating the part which follows; as the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder part of a ship, or the stern. Acts 27:41.

HIN'DER, verb transitive [Latin cunctor.]

1. To stop; to interrupt; to obstruct; to impede or prevent from moving forward by any means. It is applicable to any subject, physical, moral or intellectual.

Them that were entering in, ye hindered. Luke 11:52.

2. To retard; to check in progression or motion; to obstruct for a time, or to render slow in motion. Cold weather hinders the growth of plants, or hinders them from coming to maturity in due season. Let no obstacle hinder daily improvement.

3. To prevent.

What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right?

HIN'DER, verb intransitive To interpose obstacles or impediments.

This objection hinders not but that the heroic action of some commander--may be written.

HIN'DERANCE, noun The act of impeding or restraining motion.

1. Impediment; that which stops progression or advance; obstruction.

He must remove all these hinderances out of the way.

HIN'DERED, participle passive Stopped; impeded; obstructed; retarded.

HIN'DERER, noun One who stops or retards; that which hinders.

HIN'DERING, participle present tense Stopping; impeding; obstructing; retarding.

HINDERMOST, adjective That which is behind all others; the last. [but we now use hindmost.]

HINDMOST, adjective The last; that is in the rear of all others.

He met thee in the way, and smote the hindmost of thee. Deuteronomy 25:18.

HIN'DOO, noun An aboriginal of Hindoostan, or Hindostan.

HINGE, noun hinj. [This word appears to be connected with hang, and with angle, the verb.]

1. The hook or joint on which a door or gate turns.

The gate self-opened wide

On golden hinges turning.

2. That on which any thing depends or turns; a governing principle, rule or point. This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

3. A cardinal point; as east, west, north or south. [Little used.]

To be off the hinges, is to be in a state of disorder or irregularity.

HINGE, verb transitive To furnish with hinges.

1. To bend. [Little used.]

HINGE, verb intransitive To stand, depend or turn, as on a hinge The question hinges on this single point.

HING'ING, participle present tense Depending; turning.

HINT, verb transitive To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to allude to; to suggest by a slight intimation.

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

HINT, verb intransitive To hint at, is to allude to; to mention slightly.

HINT, noun A distant allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a word or two intended to give notice, or remind one of something without a full declaration or explanation.

1. Suggestion.

HIP, noun The projecting part of an animal formed by the osilium or haunch bone; the haunch, or the flesh that covers the bone and the adjacent parts; the joint of the thigh.

To have on the hip to have the advantage over one; a low phrase borrowed probably from wrestlers.

HIP and thigh, complete overthrow or defeat. Judges 15:8.

HIP, verb transitive To sprain or dislocate the hip

HIP

HIP'HALT, adjective [hip and halt.] Lame; limping.

HIP, HIPPED HIPPISH. [See Hyp.]

HIP'PELAPH, noun An animal of the deer kind, in Norway, about the size of the elk, and partaking of the nature of the horse and the stag.

HIP, HIPPED, HIPPISH [See Hyp.]

HIP'POCAMP, noun [Gr. a horse, and to bend.] A name given to the sea-horse.

HIPPOCEN'TAUR, noun [Gr. a horse, to spur, and a bull.]

In ancient fable, a supposed monster, half man and half horse. The hippocentaur differed from the centaur in this, that the latter rode on an ox, and the former on a horse, as the name imports.

HIP'POCRAS, noun A medicinal drink, composed of wine with an infusion of spices and other ingredients; used as a cordial. That directed by the late London Dispensary, is to be made of cloves, ginger, cinnamon and nutmegs, beat and infused in canary with sugar; to the infusion, milk, a lemon, and some slips of rosemary are to be added, and the whole strained through flannel.

Hippocrates'sleeve, a kind of bag, made by uniting the opposite angles of a square piece of flannel, used for straining syrups and decoctions.

Hippocratic face, [Latin facies hippocratica, ] pale, sunken, and contracted features, considered as a fatal symptom in diseases.

HIPPOC'RATISM, noun The philosophy of Hippocrates, as it regards medicine.

HIP'PODAME, noun A sea-horse.

HIP'PODROME, noun [Gr. a horse, and a course, to run.] Anciently, a circus, or place in which horse races and chariot races were performed, and horses exercised.

HIP'POGRIFF, noun [Gr. a horse, and a griffon.] A fabulous animal or monster, half horse and half griffon; a winged horse, imagined by Ariosto.

HIP'POLITH, noun [Gr. a horse, and a stone.] A stone found in the stomach or intestines of a horse.

HIP'POMANE, noun [Gr. a horse, and madness.]

1. A sort of poisonous substance, used anciently as a philter or love-charm.

2. In botany, the manchineel-tree, which abounds with a milky juice which is acrid, caustic and poisonous.

HIPPOPH'AGOUS, adjective Feeding on horses, as the Tartars.

HIPPOPH'AGY, noun [Gr. a horse, and to eat.] The act or practice of feeding on horses.

HIPPOPOT'AMUS, noun [Gr. a horse, and a river.] The river-horse, an animal that inhabits the Nile and other rivers in Africa. This animal resembles a hog rather than a horse, and was named perhaps from his neighing voice. He has been found of the length of 17 feet. He delights in the water, but feeds on herbage on land.

HIPPOPOT'AMY

HIP'ROOF, noun [hip and roof.] A roof that has an angle.

HIP'SHOT, adjective [hip and shot.] Having the hip dislocated.

HIP'WORT, noun A plant.

HIRE, verb transitive

1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.

2. To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.

3. To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.

To hire out one's self, to let; to engage one's service to another for a reward.

They have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Samuel 2:5.

To hire or to hire out, to let; to lease; to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation. He has hired out his house or his farm.

HIRE, noun

1. The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.

2. Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service.

The laborer is worthy of his hire Luke 10:7.

HI'RED, participle passive Procured or taken for use, at a stipulated or reasonable price; as a hired farm.

1. Employed in service for a compensation; as a hired man; a hired servant.

HI'RELING, noun One who is hired, or who serves for wages.

1. A mercenary; a prostitute.

HI'RELING, adjective Serving for wages; venal; mercenary; employed for money or other compensation.

A tedious crew

Of hireling mourners.

HI'RER, noun One that hires; one that procures the use of any thing for a compensation; one who employs persons for wages, or contracts with persons for service.

HI'RING, participle present tense Procuring the use of for a compensation.

HIRSU'TE, adjective [Latin hirsutus.]

1. Hairy; rough with hair; shaggy; set with bristles.

2. In botany, it is nearly synonymous with hispid, but it denotes having more hairs or bristles, and less stiff.

HIRSU'TENESS, noun Hairiness.

HIS, pronoun possessive of he, and pronounced hiz.

1. Of him. Thus in Alfred's Orosius, 'Sume for his ege ne dorstan.' Some for fear of his durst not; literally, for his awe, for awe of him. Lib.3.8. In this instance, his does not express what belongs to the antecedent of his [Philip, ] but the fear which others entertained of him.

2. The present use of his is as a pronominal adjective, in any case indifferently, corresponding to the Latin suus. Thus, tell John his papers are ready. I will deliver his papers to his messenger. He may take his son's books. When the noun is omitted, his stands as its substitute, either in the nominative or objective case. Tell John this book is his He may take mine and I will take his

3. his was formerly used for its, but improperly, and the use has ceased.

4. It was formerly used as the sign of the possessive. The man his ground, for the man's ground. This use has also ceased.

5. his is still used as a substitute for a noun, preceded by of; as all ye saints of his; he ministers of his

HISself is no longer used.

HIS'INGERITE, noun A mineral found in the cavities of calcarious spar, in Sudermanland.

HIS'PID, adjective [Latin hispidus.] Rough.

1. In botany, having strong hairs or bristles; beset with stiff bristles.

HISS, verb intransitive

1. To make a sound by driving the breath between the tongue and the upper teeth; to give a strong aspiration, resembling the noise made by a serpent and some other animals, or that of water thrown on hot iron. Hissing is an expression of contempt.

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee. Ezekiel 27:36.

2. To express contempt or disapprobation by hissing.

3. To whiz, as an arrow or other thing in rapid flight.

HISS, verb transitive To condemn by hissing; to explode. The spectators hissed him off the stage.

1. To procure hisses or disgrace.

--That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker.

HISS, noun The sound made by propelling the breath between the tongue and upper teeth; the noise of a serpent, a goose, etc.

He hiss for hiss returned.

1. An expression of contempt or disapprobation, used in places of public exhibition.

HISS'ING, participle present tense Making the noise of serpents.

HISS'ING, noun A hissing sound; an expression of scorn or contempt.

1. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

I will make this city desolate, and a hissing Jeremiah 19:8.

HISS'INGLY, adverb With a whistling sound.

HIST, exclamation A word commanding silence; equivalent to hush, be silent.

HISTO'RIAL, adjective Historical.

HISTO'RIAN, noun [Latin historicus.] A writer or compiler of history; one who collects and relates facts and events in writing, particularly respecting nations.

Hume is called an elegant historian

HISTOR'IC

HISTOR'ICAL, adjective [Latin historicus.] Containing history, or the relation of facts; as a historical poem; the historic page; historic brass.

1. Pertaining to history; as historic care or fidelity.

2. Contained in history; deduced from history; as historical evidence.

3. Representing history; as a historical chart; historical painting.

HISTOR'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of history; by way of narration.

The Gospels declare historically something which our Lord Jesus Christ did, spoke or suffered.

HIS'TORIED, adjective Recorded in history. [Not much in use.]

HISTO'RIER, noun A historian.

HIS'TORIFY, verb transitive To relate; to record in history. [Not used.]

HISTORIOG'RAPHER, noun [Gr. history, and to write.] A historian; a writer of history; particularly, a professed historian; an officer employed to write the history of a prince or state; as the historiographer of his Britannic majesty.

HISTORIOG'RAPHY, noun The art or employment of a historian.

HISTORIOL'OGY, noun A discourse on history, or the knowledge of history. [Not in use.]

HIS'TORY, noun [Latin historia; Gr. knowing, learned, and to inquire, to explore, to learn by inspection or inquiry.]

1. An account of facts, particularly of facts respecting nations or states; a narration of events in the order in which they happened, with their causes and effects. history differs from annals. Annals relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order, without any observations of the annalist. history regards less strictly the arrangement of events under each year, and admits the observations of the writer. This distinction however is not always regarded with strictness.

History is of different kinds, or treats of different subjects; as a history of government or political history; history of the christian church, or ecclesiastical history; history of war and conquests, or military history; history of law; history of commerce; history of the crusades, etc. In these and similar examples, history is written narrative or relation. What is the history of nations, but a narrative of the follies, crimes and miseries of man?

1. Narration; verbal relation of facts or events; story. We listen with pleasure to the soldier or the seaman, giving a history of his adventures.

What histories of toil could I declare?

2. Knowledge of facts and events.

History--is necessary to divines.

3. Description; an account of things that exist; as natural history which comprehends a description of the works of nature, particularly of animals, plants and minerals; a history of animals, or zoology; a history of plants.

4. An account of the origin, life and actions of an individual person. We say, we have a concise history of the prisoner in the testimony offered to the court.

A formal written account of an individual's life, is called biography.

HIS'TRION, noun A player. [Not in use.]

HISTRION'IC

HISTRION'ICAL, adjective [Latin histrionicus, from histrio, a buffoon, an actor, or stage player.]

Pertaining to a buffoon or comedian, or to a pantomime, who represents events or characters by gestures and dancing; belonging to stage-playing; befitting a theater; theatrical.

HISTRION'ICAL, a. [L. histrionicus, from histrio, a buffoon, an actor, or stage player.]

Pertaining to a buffoon or comedian, or to a pantomime, who represents events or characters by gestures and dancing; belonging to stage-playing; befitting a theater; theatrical.

HISTRION'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of a buffoon or pantomime; theatrically.

HIS'TRIONISM, noun The acts or practice of buffoons or pantomimes; stage-playing.

HIT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive hit

1. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.

2. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.

The archers hit him. 1 Samuel 31:3.

3. To reach; to attain to.

Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right--

4. To suit; to be conformable.

--Melancholy,

Whose saintly visage is too bright

To hit the sense of human sight.

5. To strike; to touch properly; to offer the right bait.

There you hit him--that argument never fails with him.

To hit off, to strike out; to determine luckily.

1. To represent or describe exactly.

To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Little used.]

HIT, verb intransitive To strike; to meet or come in contact; to clash; followed by against or on.

If bodies be mere extension, how can they move and hit one against another.

Corpuscles meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.

1. To meet or fall on by good luck; to succeed by accident; not to miss.

And oft it hits

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

2. To strike or reach the intended point; to succeed.

And millions miss for one that hits.

To hit on or upon, to light on; to come to or fall on by chance; to meet or find, as by accident.

None of them hit upon the art.

HIT, noun A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke or blow that touches any thing.

So he the famed Cilician fencer prais'd,

And at each hit with wonder seems amaz'd.

1. A chance; a casual event; as a lucky hit

2. A lucky chance; a fortunate event.

3. A term in back-gammon. Three hits are equal to a gammon.

HIT, verb intransitive

1. To move by jerks, or with stops; as, in colloquial language, to hitch along.

Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time

Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme.

2. To become entangled; to be caught or hooked.

3. To hit the legs together in going, as horses. [Not used in the U. States.]

4. To hop; to spring on one leg. [Local.]

5. To move or walk.

HITCH, verb transitive To hook; to catch by a hook; as, to hitch a bridle.

1. To fasten by hitching; as, to hitch a horse by a bridle, or to hitch him to a post.

HITCH, noun A catch; any thing that holds, as a hook; an impediment.

1. The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

2. In seamen's language, a knot or noose in a rope for fastening it to a ring or other object; as a clove hitch; a timber hitch etc.

3. A stop or sudden halt in walking or moving.

HITCH'ED, participle passive Caught; hooked; fastened.

HITCH'EL, verb transitive To hatchel. [Not used. See Hatchel.]

HITHE, noun A port or small haven; as in Queenhithe, and Lambhithe, now Lambeth.

HITH'ER, adverb

1. To this place; used with verbs signifying motion; as, to come hither; to proceed hither; to bring hither

2. hither and thither, to this place and that.

3. To this point; to this argument or topic; to this end. [Little used and not to be encouraged.]

Hither we refer whatever belongs to the highest perfection of man.

HITH'ER, adjective Nearest; towards the person speaking; as on the hither side of a hill; the hither end of the building.

HITH'ERMOST, adjective Nearest on this side.

HITH'ERTO, adverb To this time; yet.

The Lord hath blessed me hitherto Joshua 17:14.

1. In any time, or every time till now; in time preceding the present.

2. To this place; to a prescribed limit.

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job 38:11.

HITH'ERWARD

HITH'ERWARDS, adverb This way; towards this place.

A puissant and mighty power--

Is marching hitherward in proud array.

HIVE, noun

1. A box, chest or kind of basket for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honey-bees. It is made of boards, straw or other materials.

2. A swarm of bees; or the bees inhabiting a hive

3. A company or society together, or closely connected. [Unusual.]

HIVE, verb transitive To collect into a hive; to cause, to enter a hive; as, to hive bees.

1. To contain; to receive, as a habitation, or place of deposit.

Where all delicious sweets are hived.

HIVE, verb intransitive To take shelter or lodging together; to reside in a collective body.

HI'VED, participle passive Lodged in a hive or shelter.

HI'VER, noun One that collects bees into a hive.

HIVES, noun A disease, the croup, or cynanche trachealis; rattles.