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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.
A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
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.
A waterspout; a hurricane.
Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.
One who hurries or urges.
A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.
The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
Confusedly; in a bustle.
In a hurrying manner.
A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
aching when touched.
To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
See Whortleberry.
Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
Destitute of a husband.
Frugal; thrifty.
The master of a family.
Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
Silent; quiet.
having the sound level reduced; -- especially used of the noise of conversation; as, speaking in hushed tones.
kept secret; -- used of reports; as, hushed-up stories sometimes leak out.
An usher.
The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming and hydraulic mining.
To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
Covered with a husk.
In a husky manner; dryly.
The state of being husky.
The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.
An Eskimo.
A large European sturgeon (Huso huso or Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen and beluga. It is the source of the finest and most esteemed caviar. The huchen, a large salmon.
Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.
A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.
A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.
A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman.
Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent. In a huswifely manner.
The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.
A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.
Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton.
Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.
See Huckster.
Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
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