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.

To buzz; to murmur.

To receive or attend with huzzas.

High.

A hyacinth.

A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. Hyacinthus orientalis is a common variety. A plant of the genus Camassia (Camassia Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth. The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.

Hyacinthine.

Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.

The seven daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward.

A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.

Same as Hyena.

A pteropod of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.

a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions.

A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.

A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also M/ller's glass.

An instrument for tracing designs on glass.

Art of writing or engraving on glass.

Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.

A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (Hyalonema Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.

A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.

An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellin/.

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.

Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.

Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature.

The state or quality of being hybrid.

One who hybridizes.

Hybridism.

Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.

The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.

To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.

One who hybridizes.

Same as Hybrid.

A land tax. See Hidage.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric.

A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.

A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and C/nurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.

Resembling a hydatid.

Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.

Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.

An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.

An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lactic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.

Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.

An abnormally watery state of the blood; an/mia.

Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy. A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.

One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.

One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.

A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. Hydrangea hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

A natural family of plants including the hydrangeas, sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae.

A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.

One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.

Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury.

A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.

Quicksilver; mercury.

An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint.

An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.

To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.

Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.

The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.

Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.

Hydraulic.

An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.

That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.

Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc.

Same as Hydrocephaloid.

A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.