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.

That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.

One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

Having a humped back.

having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; -- of people.

Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.

An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

A hundred times as much or as many.

One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.

imp. p. p. of Hang.

Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary. A native or one of the people of Hungary.

A country in Central Europe, formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

To make hungry; to famish.

Pinched or weakened by hunger.

To starve with hunger; to famish.

Hungry; pinched for food.

One who hungers; one who longs.

With keen appetite.

Hungered; hungry.

In a hungry manner; voraciously.

The state of being hungry; a need for food.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.

to crouch or squat; to sit on one's haunches.

Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress.

In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position; haunches.

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

All right; in a good condition; also, even; square.

A genus with only one species, the golden cup.

Of or pertaining to the Huns.

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer.

A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call.

A hunter.

One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.

Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.

The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.

One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.

A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.

To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.

Work after manner of a hurdle.

The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.

A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.

In India, a running footman; a messenger.

The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

See Whirlbat.

See Whirlbone.

One who hurls, or plays at hurling.

The act of throwing with force.

A whirlwind.

Noise; confusion; uproar.

Tumult; bustle; confusion.

A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York.

Of or pertaining to certain non-fossiliferous rocks on the borders of Lake Huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Arch/an age.

A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.

To make a rolling or burring sound.

A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.

To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.