Affectionate embracing; caressing.

To hug.

of, pertaining to, or in the style of Victor Hugo.

A genus having only one species, the tansy-leaved rocket.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

Vast.

To usher.

An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.

See Uhlan.

A hunch.

Swollen; gibbous.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

Bulky; unwiedly; of great size and bulk; ponderous.

To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.

A confused noise; uproar; tumult.

Deprived of the hulls.

One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.

See Hollo.

Having or containing hulls.

See Hyloist.

See Hylotheism.

Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.

Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

A human being.

Indued with humanity.

Pertaining to man; human.

The study of human nature.

To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate.

Same as humanization.

Same as humanize.

Human nature or disposition; humanity.

One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.

Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.

One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

A humanist.

The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

The act of humanizing.

To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.

One who renders humane.

Mankind.

resembling a human.

In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.

The quality or state of being human.

A salt of humic acid.

Interment; inhumation.

Humming bird.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

The bumblebee.

Humble condition or estate; humility.

The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

One who, or that which, humbles some one.

Entrails of a deer.

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.

With humility; lowly.

To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

One who humbugs.

The practice of imposition.

A dull fellow; a bore.

To moisten; to wet.

A moistening.

Tending to moisten.

Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial.

The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.

Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin.

The act or practice of lying on the ground.

Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

The act or process of increasing the moisture content; -- usually used of gases, especially air.

A device that increases the moisture content of the air; -- used to avoid excessive dryness in buildings, which can cause irritation to the throat. Compare dehumidifier.

to render (gases, especially air) humid or to increase the moisture content of; as, We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house.

Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.

Humidity.

Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.

Humiliating; humbling.

To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to cause a loss of pride or dignity; to humble; to mortify.

brought low in condition or status; reduced in dignity; humbled; mortified.

causing humiliation.

The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.

The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.

A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium.

A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.

One who, or a machine which, hummels.

One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.

A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.

any bird of the family Trochilid/, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers, and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise; the wings are specialized for hovering flight, but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat.

A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice.

Abounding in hummocks.

A sweating bath or place for sweating.

To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.

The state or quality of being humoral.

One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.

The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.

One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.

To humor.

Destitute of humor.

Moist; humid; watery.

Capriciously; whimsically.

Moodiness; capriciousness.

Moody; whimsical; capricious.

Pleasantly; humorously.

Quality of being humorsome.

same as humor.

same as humorous; causing amusement or laughter.

To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; -- often with up.

Having high, hunched shoulders.

A crooked back; a humped back.

the humpback{3}.

Having a humped back.

Having a hump, as the back.

An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

Without a hump.

Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

An extract of hops.