HUB'BUB, noun A great noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar; riot.

HUCK, verb intransitive To haggle in trading. [Not in use.]

HUCK, noun The name of a German river-trout.

HUCK'ABACK, noun A kind of linen with raised figures on it.

HUCK'LE, noun [infra.] The hip, that is, a bunch.

HUCK'LEBACKED, adjective Having round shoulders.

HUCK'LEBONE, noun The hip bone.

HUCK'STER, noun

1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, nuts, etc.

2. A mean trickish fellow.

HUCK'STER, verb intransitive To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

HUCK'STERESS, noun A female peddlar.

HUD, noun The shell or hull of a hut.

HUD'DLE, verb intransitive

1. To crowd; to press together promiscuously, without order or regularity. We say of a throng of people, they huddle together.

2. To move in a promiscuous throng without order; to press or hurry in disorder. The people huddle along, or huddle into the house.

HUD'DLE, verb transitive To put on in haste and disorder; as, she huddled on her clothes.

1. To cover in haste or carelessly.

2. To perform in haste and disorder.

3. To throw together in confusion; to crowd together without regard to order; as, to huddle propositions together.

HUD'DLE, noun A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together without order or regularity; tumult; confusion.

HUD'DLED, participle passive Crowded together without order.

HUD'DLING, participle present tense Crowding or throwing together in disorder; putting on carelessly.

HUE, noun Color; dye.

Flow'rs of all hue

HUE, in the phrase hue and cry, signifies a shouting or vociferation. In law, a hue and cry is the pursuit of a felon or offender, with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.

HU'ER, noun One whose business is to cry out or give an alarm. [Not in use.]

HUFF, noun

1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance.

A Spaniard was wonderfully upon the huff about his extraction.

2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

Lewd shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the badge of wit.

HUFF, verb transitive To swell; to enlarge; to puff up.

1. To hector; to bully; to treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence.

HUFF, verb intransitive To swell; to dilate or enlarge; as, the bread huffs.

1. To bluster; to swell with anger, pride or arrogance; to storm.

This arrogant conceit made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.

A huffing, shining, flattering, cringing coward.

HUFF'ED, participle passive Swelled; puffed up.

HUFF'ER, noun A bully; a swaggerer; a blusterer.

HUFF'INESS, noun Petulance; the state of being puffed up.

HUFF'ING, participle present tense Swelling; puffing up; blustering.

HUFF'ISH, adjective Arrogant; insolent; hectoring.

HUFF'ISHLY, adverb With arrogance or blustering.

HUFF'ISHNESS, noun Arrogance; petulance; noisy bluster.

HUFF'Y, adjective Swelled or swelling; petulant.

HUG, verb transitive

1. To press close in an embrace.

--And hugged me in his arms.

2. To embrace closely; to hold fast; to treat with fondness.

We hug deformities, if they bear our names.

3. To gripe in wrestling or scuffling.

To hug the land, in sailing, to sail as near the land as possible.

HUG the wind, to keep the ship close-hauled.

HUG, noun A close embrace.

1. A particular gripe in wrestling or scuffling.

HUGE, adjective

1. Very large or great; enormous; applied to bulk or size; as a huge mountain; a huge ox.

2. It is improperly applied to space and distance, in the sense of great, vast, immense; as a hugh space; a hugh difference. This is inelegant, or rather vulgar.

3. In colloquial language, very great; enormous; as a huge feeder.

HU'GELY, adverb Very greatly; enormously; immensely.

Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea?

HU'GENESS, noun Enormous bulk or largeness; as the hugeness of a mountain or of an elephant.

HU'GUENOT, noun A name formerly given to a protestant in France.

HU'GUENOTISM, noun The religion of the Huguenots in France.

HU'GY, adjective [from huge.] Vast in size. [Not used.]

HUISH'ER, noun An usher. [See Usher.]

HUKE, noun A cloke; a hyke.

HULCH, noun A bunch. [Not used.]

HULCH'IS, adjective Swelling; gibbous. [Not used.]

HULK, noun

1. The body of a ship, or decked vessel of any kind; but the word is applied only to the body of an old ship or vessel which is laid by as unfit for service. A sheer-hulk is an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.

2. Any thing bulky or unwieldy. [Not used.]

HULK, verb transitive To take out the entrails; as, to hulk a hare. [Little used.]

HULK'Y, adjective Bulky; unwieldy. [Not used.]

HULL, noun

1. The outer covering of any thing, particularly of a nut or of grain. Johnson says, the hull of a nut covers the shell.

2. The frame or body of a ship, exclusive of her masts, yards and rigging.

To lie a hull in seamen's language, is to lie as a ship without any sail upon her, and her helm lashed a-lee.

To strike a hull in a storm, is to take in the sails, and lash the helm on the lee-side of a ship.

HULL, verb transitive To strip off or separate the hull or hulls; as, to hull grain.

1. To pierce the hull of a ship with a cannon-ball.

HULL, verb intransitive To float or drive on the water without sails.

HULL'Y, adjective Having husks or pods; siliquous.

HU'LOTHEISM, noun [Gr. matter, and God.] The doctrine or belief that matter is God, or that there is no God, except matter and the universe.

HUL'VER, noun Holly, a tree.

HUM, verb intransitive To utter the sound of bees; to buzz.

1. To make an inarticulate buzzing sound.

The cloudy messenger turns me his back,

And hums--

2. To pause in speaking, and make an audible noise like the humming bees.

He hummed and hawed.

3. To make a dull, heavy noise like a drone.

Still humming, on their drowsy course they took.

4. To applaud.

HUM, verb transitive To sing in a low voice; as, to hum a tune.

1. To cause to hum; to impose on.

HUM, noun The noise of bees or insects.

1. A low confused noise, as of crowds; as the busy hum of men.

2. Any low dull noise.

3. A low inarticulate sound, uttered by a speaker in a pause; as hums and haws.

4. An expression of applause.

HUM, exclamation A sound with a pause, implying doubt and deliberation.

HU'MAN, adjective [Latin humanus; Heb. form, species.]

1. Belonging to man or mankind; pertaining or relating to the race of man; as a human voice; human shape; human nature; human knowledge; human life.

2. Having the qualities of a man.

3. Profane; not sacred or divine; as a human author. [Not in use.]

HU'MANATE, adjective Endued with humanity.

HUMA'NE, adjective [supra.] Having the feelings and dispositions proper to man; having tenderness, compassion, and a disposition to treat others with kindness; particularly in relieving them when in distress, or in captivity, when they are helpless or defenseless; kind; benevolent.

1. Inclined to treat the lower orders of animals with tenderness.

HUMA'NELY, adverb With kindness, tenderness or compassion; as, the prisoners were treated humanely

1. In a humane manner; with kind feelings.

HUMA'NENESS, noun Tenderness.

HU'MANIST, noun A professor of grammar and rhetoric; a philologist; a term used in the universities of Scotland.

1. One versed in the knowledge of human nature.

HUMAN'ITY, noun [Latin humanitas.]

1. The peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. Thus Christ, by his incarnation, was invested

with humanity

2. Mankind collectively; the human race.

If he is able to untie those knots, he is able to teach all humanity

It is a debt we owe to humanity

3. The kind feelings, dispositions and sympathies of man, by which he is distinguished from the lower orders of animals; kindness; benevolence; especially, a disposition to relieve persons in distress, and to treat with tenderness those who are helpless and defenseless; opposed to cruelty.

4. A disposition to treat the lower orders of animals with tenderness, or at least to give them no unnecessary pain.

5. The exercise of kindness; acts of tenderness.

6. Philology; grammatical studies.

Humanities, in the plural, signifies grammar, rhetoric and poetry; for teaching which there are professors in the universities of Scotland.

HUMANIZA'TION, noun The act of humanizing.

HU'MANIZE, verb transitive To soften; to render humane; to subdue dispositions to cruelty, and render susceptible of kind feelings.

Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures?

HU'MANIZED, participle passive softened; rendered humane.

HU'MANIZING, participle present tense Softening; subduing cruel dispositions.

HU'MANKIND, noun The race of man; mankind; the human species.

HU'MANLY, adverb After the manner of men; according to the opinions or knowledge of men. The present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.

1. Kingly; humanely.

HUMA'TION, noun Interment. [Not used.]

HUM'BIRD

HUM'BLE, adjective [Latin humilis.]

1. Low; opposed to high or lofty.

Thy humble nest built on the ground.

2. Low; opposed to lofty or great; mean; not magnificent; as a humble cottage.

A humble roof, and an obscure retreat.

3. Lowly; modest; meek; submissive; opposed to proud, haughty, arrogant or assuming. In an evangelical sense, having a low opinion of one's self, and a deep sense of unworthiness in the sight of God.

God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. James 4:1.

Without a humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

HUM'BLE, verb transitive To abase; to reduce to a low state. This victory humbled the pride of Rome. The power of Rome was humbled, but not subdued.

1. To crush; to break; to subdue. The battle of Waterloo humbled the power of Buonaparte.

2. To mortify.

3. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride of; to reduce arrogance and self-dependence; to give a low opinion of one's moral worth; to make meek and submissive to the divine will; the evangelical sense.

Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Peter 5:1.

Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart. 2 Chronicles 32:1.

4. To make to condescend.

He humbles himself to speak to them.

5. To bring down; to lower; to reduce.

The highest mountains may be humbled into valleys.

6. To deprive of chastity. Deuteronomy 21:1.

To humble one's self, to repent; to afflict one's self for sin; to make contrite.

HUM'BLE, a. [L. humilis.]

HUM'BLE, v.t. To abase; to reduce to a low state. This victory humbled the pride of Rome. The power of Rome was humbled, but not subdued.

To humble one's self, to repent; to afflict one's self for sin; to make contrite.

HUM'BLEBEE, noun [Latin bombus, a buzzing.]

A bee of a large species, that draws its food chiefly from clover flowers.

HUM'BLED, participle passive Made low; abased; rendered meek and submissive; penitent.

HUM'BLEMOUTHED, adjective Mild; meek; modest.

HUM'BLENESS, noun The state of being humble or low; humility; meekness.

HUM'BLEPLANT, noun A species of sensitive plant.

HUM'BLER, noun He or that which humbles; he that reduces pride or mortifies.

HUM'BLES

UM'BLES, noun Entrails of a deer.

HUM'BLY, adverb In a humble manner; with modest submissiveness; with humility.

Hope humbly the, with trembling pinions soar,

Wait the great teacher, death, and God adore.

1. In a low state or condition; without elevation.

HUM'BOLDITE, noun [from Humbold.] A rare mineral recently described, occurring in small crystals, nearly colorless and transparent, or of a yellowish tinge and translucent; rarely separate, but usually aggregated; their primary form, an oblique rhombic prism.

HUM'BUG, noun An imposition.

HUM'DRUM, adjective Dull; stupid.

HUM'DRUM, noun A stupid fellow; a drone.

HUMECT'

HUMEC'TATE, verb transitive [Latin humecto, from humeo, to be moist.]

To moisten; to wet; to water. [Little used.]

HUMECTA'TION, noun The act of moistening, wetting or watering. [Little used.]

HUMEC'TIVE, adjective Having the power to moisten.

HU'MERAL, adjective [Latin humerus, the shoulder.

Belonging to the shoulder; as the humeral artery.

HUM'HUM, noun A kind of plain, coarse India cloth, made of cotton.

HUMICUBA'TION, noun [Latin humus, the ground, and cubo, to lie.]

A lying on the ground. [Little used.]

HU'MID, adjective [Latin humidus, from humeo, to be moist.]

1. Moist; damp; containing sensible moisture; as a humid air or atmosphere.

2. Somewhat wet or watery; as humid earth.

HUMID'ITY, noun Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness which is perceptible to the eye or touch, occasioned by the absorption of a fluid, or its adherence to the surface of a body. When a cloth has imbibed any fluid to such a degree that it can be felt, we call it humid; but when no humidity is perceptible, we say it is dry. Quicksilver communicates no humidity to our hands or clothes, for it does not adhere to them; but it will adhere to gold, tin and lead, and render them humid and soft to the touch.

1. Moisture in the form of visible vapor, or perceptible in the air.

HU'MIDNESS, noun Humidity.

HUMIL'IATE, verb transitive [Latin humilio.] To humble; to lower in condition; to depress; as humiliated slaves.

HUMIL'IATED, participle passive Humbled; depressed; degraded.

HUMIL'IATING, participle present tense Humbling; depressing.

1. Abating pride; reducing self-confidence; mortifying.

HUMILIA'TION, noun The act of humbling; the state of being humbled.

1. Descent from an elevated state or rank to one that is low or humble.

The former was a humiliation of deity; the latter, a humiliation of manhood.

2. The act of abasing pride; or the state of being reduced to lowliness of mind, meekness, penitence and submission.

The doctrine he preached was humiliation and repentance.

3. Abasement of pride; mortification.

HUMIL'ITY, noun [Latin humilitas.]

1. In ethics, freedom from pride and arrogance; humbleness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth. In theology, humility consists in lowliness of mind; a deep sense of one's own unworthiness in the sight of God, self-abasement, penitence for sin, and submission to the divine will.

Before honor is humility Proverbs 15:33.

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts 20:19.

2. Act of submission.

With these humilities they satisfied the young king.

HU'MITE, noun A mineral of a reddish brown color, and a shining luster; crystallized in octahedrons, much modified by truncation and bevelment. It is named from Sir Abm. Hume.

HUM'MER, noun [from hum.] One that hums; an applauder.

HUM'MING, participle present tense Making a low buzzing or murmuring sound.

HUM'MING, noun The sound of bees; a low murmuring sound.

HU'MOR, noun [Latin from humeo, to be moist.]

1. Moisture; but the word is chiefly used to express the moisture or fluids of animal bodies, as the humors of the eye. But more generally the word is used to express a fluid in its morbid or vitiated state. Hence, in popular speech, we often hear it said, the blood is full of humors. But the expression is not technical nor correct.

Aqueous humor of the eye, a transparent fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea, both before and behind the pupil.

Crystalline humor or lens, a small transparent solid body, of a softish consistence, occupying a middle position in the eye, between the aqueous and vitreous humors, and directly behind the pupil. It is of a lenticular form, or with double convex surfaces, and is the principal instrument in refracting the rays of light, so as to form an image on the retina.

Vitreous humor of the eye, a fluid contained in the minute cells of a transparent membrane, occupying the greater part of the cavity of the eye, and all the space between the crystalline and the retina.

2. A disease of the skin; cutaneous eruptions.

3. Turn of mind; temper; disposition, or rather a peculiarity of disposition often temporary; so called because the temper of mind has been supposed to depend on the fluids of the body. Hence we say, good humor; melancholy humor; peevish humor Such humors, when temporary, we call freaks, whims, caprice. Thus a person characterized by good nature may have a fit of ill humor; and an ill natured person may have a fit of good humor So we say, it was the humor of the man at the time; it was the humor of the multitude.

4. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas a wild or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations. humor is less poignant and brilliant than wit; hence it is always agreeable. Wit, directed against folly, often offends by its severity; humor makes a man ashamed of his follies, without exciting his resentment. humor may be employed solely to raise mirth and render conversation pleasant, or it may contain a delicate kind of satire.

5. Petulance; peevishness; better expressed by ill humor

Is my friend all perfection? has he not humors to be endured?

6. A trick; a practice or habit.

I like not the humor of lying.

HU'MOR, verb transitive To gratify by yielding to particular inclination, humor wish or desire; to indulge by compliance. We sometimes humor children to their injury or ruin. The sick, the infirm, and the aged often require to be humored.

1. To suit; to indulge; to favor by imposing no restraint, and rather contributing to promote by occasional aids. We say, an actor humors his part, or the piece.

It is my part to invent, and that of the musicians to humor that invention.

HU'MORAL, adjective Pertaining to or proceeding from the humors; as a humoral fever.

Humoral pathology, that pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors.

HU'MORED, participle passive Indulged; favored.

HU'MORING, participle present tense Indulging a particular wish or propensity; favoring; contributing to aid by falling into a design or course.

HU'MORIST, noun One who conducts himself by his own inclination, or bent of mind; one who gratifies his own humor.

The humorist is one that is greatly pleased or greatly displeased with little things; his actions seldom directed by the reason and nature of things.

1. One that indulges humor in speaking or writing; one who has a playful fancy or genius.

2. One who has odd conceits; also, a wag; a droll.

HU'MOROUS, adjective Containing humor; full of wild or fanciful images; adapted to excite laughter; jocular; as a humorous essay; a humorous story.

1. Having the power to speak or write in the style of humor; fanciful; playful; exciting laughter; as a humorous man or author.

2. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.

I am known to be a humorous patrician.

Rough as a storm, and humorous as the wind.

3. Moist; humid. [Not in use.]

HU'MOROUSLY, adverb With a wild or grotesque combination of ideas; in a manner to excite laughter or mirth; pleasantly; jocosely. Addison describes humorously the manual exercise of ladies' fans.

1. Capriciously; whimsically; in conformity with one's humor.

We resolve by halves, rashly and humorously

HU'MOROUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being humorous; oddness of conceit; jocularity.

1. Fickleness; capriciousness.

2. Peevishness; petulance.

HU'MORSOME, adjective Peevish; petulant; influenced by the humor of the moment.

The commons do not abet humorsome factious arms.

1. Odd; humorous; adapted to excite laughter.

HU'MORSOMELY, adverb Peevishly; petulantly.

1. Oddly; humorously.

HUMP, noun [Latin umbo.] The protuberance formed by a crooked back; as a camel with one hump or two humps.

HUMP'BACK, noun A crooked back; high shoulders.

HUMP'BACKED, adjective Having a crooked back.

HUNCH, noun [See the Verb.] A hump; a protuberance; as the hunch of a camel.

1. A lump; a thick piece; as a hunch of bread; a word in common vulgar use in New England.

2. A push or jerk with the fist or elbow.

HUNCH, verb transitive To push with the elbow; to push or thrust with a sudden jerk.

1. To push out in a protuberance; to crook the back.

HUNCH'BACKED, adjective Having a crooked back.

HUND'RED, adjective [Latin centum.] Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; as a hundred men.

HUND'RED, noun A collection, body or sum, consisting of ten times ten individuals or units; the number 100.

1. A division or part of a county in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or a hundred warriors, or a hundred manors. [But as the word denotes primarily a circuit or division, it is not certin that Alfred's divisions had any reference to that number.]

HUND'REDER, noun In England, a man who may be of a jury in any controversy respecting land within the hundred to which he belongs.

1. One having the juriscition of a hundred.

HUND'REDTH, adjective The ordinal of a hundred.

HUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of hang.

HUN'GER, noun

1. An uneasy sensation occasioned by the want of food; a craving of food by the stomach; craving appetite. hunger is not merely want of food, for persons when sick, may abstain long from eating without hunger or an appetite for food. hunger therefore is the pain or uneasiness of the stomach of a healthy person, when too long destitute of food.

2. Any strong or eager desire.

For hunger of my gold I die.

HUN'GER, verb intransitive To feel the pain or uneasiness which is occasioned by long abstinence from food; to crave food.

1. To desire with great eagerness; to long for.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matthew 5:6.

HUN'GER, verb transitive To famish. [Not in use.]

HUN'GERING, participle present tense Feeling the uneasiness of want of food; desiring eagerly; longing for; craving.

HUN'GERLY, adjective Hungry; wanting food or nourishment.

HUN'GERLY, adverb With keen appetite. [Little used.]

HUN'GRED, adjective Hungry; pinched by want of food.

HUN'GRILY, adverb [from hungry.] With keen appetite; voraciously.

When on harsh acorns hungrily they fed.

HUN'GRY, adjective Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry

1. Having an eager desire.

2. Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger.

Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as a hungry soil; a hungry gravel.

HUNKS, noun A covetous sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

HUNS, noun [Latin hunni.] The Scythians who conquered Pannonia, and gave it its present name, Hungary.

HUNT, verb transitive

1. To chase wild animals, particularly quadrupeds, for the purpose of catching them for food, or for the diversion of sportsmen; to pursue with hounds for taking, as game; as, to hunt stag or a hare.

2. To go in search of, for the purpose of shooting; as, to hunt wolves, bears, squirrels or partridges. This is the common use of the word in America. It includes fowling by shooting.

3. To pursue; to follow closely.

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Psalms 140:11.

4. To use, direct or mange hounds in the chase.

He hunts a pack of dogs.

To hunt out or after, to seek; to search for.

To hunt from, to pursue and drive out or away.

To hunt down, to depress; to bear down by persecution or violence.

HUNT, verb intransitive To follow the chase. Genesis 27:5.

1. To seek wild animals for game, or for killing them by shooting when noxious; with for; as, to hunt for bears or wolves; to hunt for quails, or for ducks.

2. To seek by close pursuit; to search; with for.

The adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Proverbs 6:26.

HUNT, noun A chase of wild animals for catching them.

1. A huntsman. [Not in use.]

2. A pack of hounds.

3. Pursuit; chase.

4. A seeking of wild animals of any kind for game; as a hunt for squirrels.

HUNT'ED, participle passive Chased; pursued; sought.

HUNT'ER, noun One who pursues wild animals with a view to take them, either for sport or for food.

1. A dog that scents game, or is employed in the chase.

2. A horse used in the chase.

HUNT'ING, participle present tense Chasing for seizure; pursuing; seeking; searching.

HUNT'ING, noun The act or practice of pursuing wild animals, for catching or killing them. hunting was originally practiced by men for the purpose of procuring food, as it still is by uncivilized nations. But among civilized men, it is practiced mostly for exercise or diversion, or for the destruction of noxious animals, as in America.

1. A pursuit; a seeking.

HUNT'RESS, noun A female that hunts, or follows the chase. Diana is called the huntress

HUNTS'MAN, noun One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

1. The servant whose office it is to manage the chase.

HUNTS'MANSHIP, noun The art or practice of hunting, or the qualifications of a hunter.

HUR'DEN, noun [made of hurds, hards, or coarse flax.]

A coarse kind of linen.

HUR'DLE, noun [Latin crates.]

1. A texture of twigs, osiers or sticks; a crate of various forms, according to its destination. The English give this name to a sled or crate on which criminals are drawn to the place of execution. In this sense, it is not used in America.

2. In fortification, a collection of twigs or sticks interwoven closely and sustained by long stakes. It is made in the figure of a long square, five or six feet by three and a half. Hurdles serve to render works firm, or to cover traverses and lodgments for the defense of workmen against fire-works or stones.

3. In husbandry, a frame of split timber or sticks wattled together, serving for gates, inclosures, etc.

HURDS, noun The coarse part of flax or hemp. [See Hards.]

HURL, verb transitive

1. To throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone.

And hurl them headlong to their fleet and main.

2. To utter with vehemence; as, to hurl out vows. [Not in use.]

3. To play at a kind of game.

HURL, noun The act of throwing with violence.

1. Tumult; riot; commotion.

HURL'BAT, noun A whirl-bat; an old kind of weapon.

HURL'BONE, noun In a horse, a bone near the middle of the buttock.

HURL'ED, participle passive Thrown with violence.

HURL'ER, noun One who hurls, or who plays at hurling.

HURL'ING, participle present tense Throwing with force; playing at hurling

HURL'WIND, noun A whirlwind, which see.

HURL'Y

HURL'Y-BURLY, noun Tumult; bustle; confusion.

HURRAH, exclamation Hoora; huzza. [See Hoora.]

HURRAW

HUR'RICANE, noun [Latin furio, furo, to rage.]

1. A most violent storm of wind, occurring often in the West Indies, and sometimes in higher northern latitudes, and on the coast of the United States, as far north as New England. A hurricane is distinguished from every other kind of tempest by the extreme violence of the wind, and by its sudden changes; the wind often veering suddenly several points, sometimes a quarter of the circle and even more.

2. Any violent tempest.

HUR'RICANE, n. [L. furio, furo, to rage.]

HUR'RIED, participle passive [from hurry.] Hastened; urged or impelled to rapid motion or vigorous action.

HUR'RIER, noun One who hurries, urges or impels.

HUR'RY, verb transitive [Latin curro.]

1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to drive or press forward with more rapidity; to urge to act or proceed with more celerity; as, to hurry the workmen or the work. Our business hurries us. The weather is hot and the load heavy; we cannot safely hurry the horses.

2. To drive or impel with violence.

Impetuous lust hurries him on to satisfy the cravings of it.

3. To urge or drive with precipitation and confusion; for confusion is often caused by hurry

And wild amazement hurries up and down

The little number of your doubtful friends.

To hurry away, to drive or carry away in haste.

HUR'RY, verb intransitive To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.

The business is urgent; let us hurry

HUR'RY, noun A driving or pressing forward in motion or business.

1. Pressure; urgency to haste.

We cannot wait long; we are in a hurry

2. Precipitation that occasions disorder or confusion.

It is necessary sometimes to be in haste, but never in a hurry

3. Tumult; bustle; commotion.

Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought.

HUR'RYING, participle present tense Driving or urging to greater speed; precipitating.

HURST, noun A wood or grove; a word found in many names, as in Hazlehurst.

HURT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive hurt

1. To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. We hurt the body by a severe blow, or by tight clothes, and the feet by fetters. Psalms 105:18.

2. To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body, as by incision or fracture.

3. To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss. We hurt a man by destroying his property.

4. To injure by diminution; to impair.

A man hurts his estate by extravagance.

5. To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength, purity or beauty of.

HURT not the wine and the oil--Revelation 6:6.

6. To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.

7. To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.

HURT, noun A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.

The pains of sickness and hurts.

1. Harm; mischief; injury.

I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt Genesis 4:23.

2. Injury; loss.

Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra 4:22.

HURT'ER, noun One who hurts or does harm.

HURT'ERS, noun Pieces of wood at the lower end of a platform, to prevent the wheels of gun-carriages from injuring the parapet.

HURT'FUL, adjective Injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or destruction; tending to impair or destroy. Negligence is hurtful to property; intemperance is hurtful to health.

HURT'FULLY, adverb Injuriously; ; mischievously.

HURT'FULNESS, noun Injuriousness; tendency to occasion loss or destruction; mischievousness.

HURT'LE, verb intransitive [from hurt.] To clash or run against; to jostle; to skirmish; to meet in shock and encounter; to wheel suddenly. [Not now used.]

HURT'LE, verb transitive To move with violence or impetuosity.

1. To push forcibly; to whirl.

HURT'LEBERRY, noun A whortleberry, which see.

HURT'LESS, adjective Harmless; innocent; doing no injury; innoxious; as hurtless blows.

1. Receiving no injury.

HURT'LESSLY, adverb Without harm. [Little used.]

HURT'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from any harmful quality. [Little used.

HUS'BAND, noun s as z.

1. A man contracted or joined to a woman by marriage. A man to whom a woman is betrothed, as well as one actually united by marriage, is called a husband Leviticus 19:20. Deuteronomy 22:22.

2. In seaman's language, the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in person.

3. The male of animals of a lower order.

4. An economist; a good manager; a man who knows and practices the methods of frugality and profit. In this sense, the word is modified by an epithet; as a good husband; a bad husband [But in America, this application of the word is little or not at all used.]

5. A farmer; a cultivator; a tiller of the ground. [In this sense, it is not used in America. We always use husbandman.]

HUS'BAND, verb transitive To direct and manage with frugality in expending any thing; to use or employ in the manner best suited to produce the greatest effect; to use with economy. We say, a man husbands his estate, his means or his time.

He is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.

1. To till; to cultivate with good management.

2. To supply with a husband [Little used.]

HUS'BANDABLE, adjective Manageable with economy.

HUS'BANDED, participle passive Used or managed with economy; well managed.

HUS'BANDING, participle present tense Using or managing with frugality.

HUS'BANDLESS, adjective Destitute of a husband.

HUS'BANDLY, adjective Frugal; thrifty. [Little used.]

HUS'BANDMAN, noun A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground; one who labors in tillage. In America, where men generally own the land on which they labor, the proprietor of a farm is also a laborer or husbandman; but the word includes the lessee and the owner.

1. The master of a family. [Not in use in America.]

HUS'BANDRY, noun The business of a farmer, comprehending agriculture or tillage of the ground, the raising, managing and fattening of cattle and other domestic animals, the management of the dairy and whatever the land produces.

1. Frugality; domestic economy; good management; thrift. But in this sense we generally prefix good; as good husbandry

2. Care of domestic affairs.

HUSH, adjective [Heb. to be silent.] Silent; still; quiet; as, they are hush as death. This adjective never precedes the noun which it qualifies, except in the compound, hushmoney.

HUSH, verb transitive To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress noise; as, to hush the noisy crown; the winds were hushed.

My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.

1. To appease; to allay; to calm, as commotion or agitation.

Wilt thou then

HUSH my cares?

HUSH, verb intransitive To be still; to be silent.

HUSH, imperative of the verb, used as an exclamation, be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

To hush up, to suppress; to keep concealed.

This matter is hushed up.

HUSH'MONEY, noun A bribe to secure silence; money paid to hinder information, or disclosure of facts.

HUSK, noun The external covering of certain fruits or seeds of plants. It is the calyx of the flower or glume of corn and grasses, formed of valves embracing the seed. The husks of the small grains, when separated, are called chaff; but in America we apply the word chiefly to the covering of the ears or seeds of maiz, which is never denominated chaff. It is sometimes used in England for the rind, skin or hull of seeds.

HUSK, verb transitive To strip off the external integument or covering of the fruits or seeds of plants; as, to husk maiz.

HUSK'ED, participle passive Stripped of its husks.

1. Covered with a husk.

HUSK'INESS, noun The state of being dry and rough, like a husk.

HUSK'ING, participle present tense Stripping off husks.

HUSK'ING, noun The act of stripping off husks. In New England, the practice of farmers it to invite their neighbors to assist them in stripping their maiz, in autumnal evenings, and this is called a husking

HUSK'Y, adjective Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

1. Resembling husks; dry; rough.

2. Rough, as sound; harsh; whizzing.

HU'SO, noun A fish of the genus Accipenser, whose mouth is in the under part of the head; the body is naked, or without prickles or protuberances. It grows to the length of twenty four feet, and its skin is so tough that it is used for ropes in drawing wheel-carriages. It inhabits the Danube and the rivers of Russia, and of its sounds is made isinglass.

HUSS'A, verb intransitive To utter a loud shout of joy, or an acclamation in joy or praise.

HUZZ'A, verb transitive To receive or attend with shouts of joy.

HUS'SAR, noun s as z. A mounted soldier of horseman, in German cavalry. The hussars are the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia. Their regimentals are a fur cap adorned with a feather, a doublet, a pair of breeches to which the stockings are fastened, and a pair of red or yellow boots. Their arms are a saber, a carbine and pistols. Hussars now form a part of the French and English cavalry.

HUSS'ITE, noun A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer.

HUSS'Y, noun [contracted from huswife, housewife.]

1. A bad or worthless woman. It is used also ludicrously in slight disapprobation or contempt. Go, hussy go.

2. An economist; a thrifty woman.

HUS'TINGS, noun

1. A court held in Guildhall, in London, before the lord mayor and aldermen of the city; the supreme court or council of the city. In this court are elected the aldermen and the four members of parliament.

2. The place where an election of a member of parliament is held.

HUS'TLE, verb intransitive hus'l. To shake together in confusion; to push or crowd.

HUS'WIFE, noun A worthless woman; a bad manager. [See Hussy.]

1. A female economist; a thrifty woman.

HUS'WIFE, verb transitive To manage with economy and frugality.

HUS'WIFERY, noun The business of managing the concerns of a family by a female; female management, good or bad.

HUT, noun A small house, hovel or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a cottage. It is particularly applied to log-houses erected for troops in winter.

HUT, verb transitive To place in huts, as troops encamped in winter quarters.

HUT, verb intransitive To take lodgings in huts.

The troops hutted for the winter.

HUTCH, noun

1. A chest or box; a corn chest or bin; a case for rabbits.

2. A rat trap.

HUT'TED, participle passive Lodged in huts.

HUT'TING, participle present tense Placing in huts; taking lodgings in huts.

HUX, verb transitive To fish for pike with hooks and lines fastened to floating bladders.

HUZZ, verb intransitive To buzz. [Not in use.]

HUZZ'A, noun A shout of joy; a foreign word used in writing only, and most preposterously, as it is never used in practice. The word used in our native word hoora, or hooraw. [See Hoora.]