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Hotel

HOTEL', noun

1. A palace.

2. An inn; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. It was formerly a house for genteel strangers or lodgers, but the name is now given to any inn.

Hoten

HOT, HOTE, HOTEN participle passive Called; named.

Hotheaded

HOT'HEADED, adjective Of ardent passions; vehement; violent; rash.

Hothouse

HOT'HOUSE, noun A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

1. A bagnio, or place to sweat and cup in.

2. A brothel.

Hotly

HOT'LY, adverb [from hot.] With heat.

1. Ardently; vehemently; violently; as a stag hotly pursued.

2. Lustfully.

Hotmouthed

HOT'MOUTHED, adjective Headstrong; ungovernable.

That hotmouthed beast that bears against the curb.

Hotness

HOT'NESS, noun Sensible heat beyond a moderate degree or warmth.

1. Violence; vehemence; fury.

Hotspur

HOT'SPUR, noun [hot and spur.] A man violent, passionate, heady, rash or precipitate.

1. A kind of pea of early growth.

HOT'SPUR, adjective Violent; impetuous.

Hotspurred

HOT'SPURRED, adjective Vehement; rash; heady; headstrong.

Hottentot

HOT'TENTOT, noun A native of the southern extremity of Africa.

1. A savage brutal man.

Hottentot-Cherry

HOTTENTOT-CHERRY, noun A plant. [See Cherry.]

Hough

HOUGH, noun hok.

1. The lower part of the thigh; the ham; the joint of the hind leg of a beast that connects the thigh with the leg.

2. An adz; a hoe. [Not in use.]

HOUGH, verb transitive hok. To hamstring; to disable by cutting the sinews of the ham.

1. To cut with a hoe.

Houlet

HOUL'ET, noun An owl. [See Howlet.]

Hoult

HOULT, noun [See Holt.]

Hound

HOUND, noun [Latin canis.] A generic name of the dog; but in English it is confined to a particular breed or variety, used in the chase. It has long, smooth, pendulous ears.

HOUND, verb transitive To set on the chase.

1. To hunt; to chase.

Houndfish

HOUND'FISH, noun A fish, called also Galeus laevis, with a long round body, and ash-colored sides and back.

A species of shark, the Squalus mustelus.

Hounds

HOUNDS, noun In seamen's language, the projecting parts of the head of a mast.

HOUND'S TONGUE, noun A plant of the genus Cynoglossum.

Houndtree

HOUND'TREE, noun A kind of tree.

Houp

HOUP. [See Hoopoo.]

Hour

HOUR, noun our. [Latin hora; also Latin tempestivus, from tempus. See Time. But hour hora, afterward came to signify a certain portion or division of the day. This has been different in different nations.]

1. A space of time equal to one twenty fourth part of the natural day, or duration of the diurnal revolution of the earth. An hour answers to fifteen degrees of the equator. It consists of 60 minutes, each minute of 60 seconds, etc.

2. Time; a particular time; as the hour of death.

Jesus saith, woman, my hour is not yet come. John 2:4.

3. The time marked or indicated by a chronometer, clock or watch; the particular time of the day. What is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? I will be with you at an early hour

Good hour signifies early or seasonably.

You have arrived at a good hour

To keep good hours, to be at home in good season; not to be abroad late, or at the usual hours of retiring to rest.

HOURs, in the plural, certain prayers in the Romish church, to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

Hourglass

HOUR'GLASS, noun our'glass. A chronometer that measures the flux of time by the running of sand from one glass vessel to another, through a small aperture. Instead of sand, dry egg shells pulverized are sometimes used. The quantity of sand may be so proportioned as to measure an hour, a half hour, or a quarter.

1. Space of time.

Hourhand

HOUR'HAND, noun The hand or pointed pin which shows the hour on a chronometer.

Houri

HOU'RI, noun Among Mohammedans, a nymph of paradise.

Hourly

HOUR'LY, adjective our'ly. Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated.

Observe the waning moon with hourly view.

1. Continual.

We must live in hourly expectation of having the troops recalled.

HOUR'LY, adverb our'ly. Every hour; frequently; continually.

Great was their strife which hourly was renewed.

Hourplate

HOUR'PLATE, noun our'plate. The plate of a clock or other time-piece on which the hours are marked; the dial.

Housage

HOUS'AGE, noun [from house.] A fee for keeping goods in a house.

House

HOUSE, noun hous. [Latin casa; Heb. to put on, to cover.]

1. In a general sense, a building or shed intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but appropriately, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, mansion or abode for any of the human species. It may be of any size and composed of any materials whatever, wood, stone, brick, etc.

2. An edifice or building appropriated to the worship of God; a temple; a church; as the house of God.

3. A monastery; a college; as a religious house

4. The manner of living; the table.

He keeps a good house or a miserable house

5. In astrology, the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavens.

6. A family of ancestors; descendants and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe. It particularly denotes a noble family or an illustrious race; as the house of Austria; the house of Hanover. So in Scripture, the house of Israel, or of Judah.

Two of a house few ages can afford.

7. One of the estates of a kingdom assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in their legislative capacity, and holding their place by right or by election. Thus we say, the house of lords or peers of Great Britain; the house of commons; the house of representatives. In most of the United States, the legislatures consist of two houses, the senate, and the house of representatives or delegates.

8. The quorum of a legislative body; the number of representatives assembled who are constitutionally empowered to enact laws. Hence we say, there is a sufficient number of representatives present to form a house

9. In Scripture, those who dwell in a house and compose a family; a household.

Cornelius was a devout man, and feared God with all his house Acts 10:2.

10. Wealth; estate.

Ye devour widows' houses. Matthew 23:38.

11. The grave; as the house appointed for all living. Job 30:23.

12. Household affairs; domestic concerns.

Set thy house in order. 2 Kings 20:1.

13. The body; the residence of the soul in this world; as our earthly house 2 Corinthians 5:1.

14. The church among the Jews.

Moses was faithful in all his house Hebrews 3:2.

15. A place of residence. Egypt is called the house of bondage. Exodus 13:3.

16. A square, or division on a chess board.

HOUSE, verb transitive houz. To cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to shelter; to protect by covering; as, to house wood; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

1. To admit to residence; to harbor.

Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.

2. To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

3. To drive to a shelter.

HOUSE, verb intransitive houz. To take shelter or lodgings; to keep abode; to reside.

To house with darkness and with death.

1. To have an astrological station in the heavens.

Where Saturn houses.

House-Breaker

HOUSE-BREAK'ER, noun house'-breaker. One who breaks, opens and enters a house by day with a felonious intent, or one who breaks or opens a house, and steals therefrom, by daylight.

House-Breaking

HOUSE-BREAKING, noun hous'-breaking. The breaking, or opening and entering of a house by daylight, with the intent to commit a felony, or to steal or rob. The same crime committed at night is burglary.

House-Wright

HOUSE-WRIGHT, noun hous'wright. An architect who builds houses.

Houseboat

HOUSEBOAT, noun hous'boat. A covered boat.

Housebote

HOUSEBOTE, noun hous'bote.

1. In law, a sufficient allowance of wood to repair the house and supply fuel.

Housed

HOUS'ED, participle passive s as z. Put under cover; sheltered.

HOUS'ING, participle present tense s as z. Covering; sheltering.

1. Warped; crooked, as a brick.

HOUS'ING, noun Houses in general.

1. A cloth laid over a saddle.

2. A piece of cloth fastened to the hinder part of a saddle, and covering the horse's croup; called also boot-housing.

3. [See Houseline.]

Housedog

HOUSEDOG, noun hous'dog. A dog kept to guard the house.

Household

HOUSEHOLD, noun hous'hold. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family; those who belong to a family.

I baptized also the household of Stephanus. 1 Corinthians 1:16.

1. Family life; domestic management.

HOUSEHOLD, adjective hous'hold. Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as household furniture; household affairs.

Household-Stuff

HOUSEHOLD-STUFF, noun hous'hold-stuff. The furniture of a house; the vessels, utensils and goods of a family.

Householder

HOUSEHOLDER, noun hous'holder. The master or chief of a family; one who keeps house with his family. Matthew 13:27.

Housekeeper

HOUSEKEEPER, noun hous'keeper. One who occupies a house with his family; a man or woman who maintains a family; a man or woman who maintains a family state in a house; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.

1. A female servant who has the chief care of the family and superintends the other servants.

2. One who lives in plenty. [Not in use.]

3. One who keeps much at home. [Not used.]

4. A housedog. [Not used.]

Housekeeping

HOUSEKEEPING, adjective hous'keeping. Domestic; used in a family; as housekeeping commodities. [Little used.]

HOUSEKEEPING, noun [As above.] The family state in a dwelling.

1. Hospitality; a plentiful and hospitable table. [Not used in U. States.]

Housel

HOUS'EL, noun houz'l. The eucharist; the sacred bread.

HOUS'EL, verb transitive To give or receive the eucharist.

Houselamb

HOUSELAMB, noun hous'lamb. A lamb kept in a house for fatting.

Houseleek

HOUSELEEK, noun hous'leek. [See Leek.] A plant of the genus Sempervivum, which is found on the tops of houses. The lesser houseleek is of the genus Sedum.

Houseless

HOUSELESS, noun hous'less. Destitute of a house or habitation; as the houseless child of want.

1. Destitute of shelter.

Houseline

HOUSELINE

HOUSEMAID, noun hous'maid. A female servant employed to keep a house clean, etc.

Housepigeon

HOUSEPIGEON, noun A tame pigeon.

Houseraiser

HOUSERAISER, noun One who erects a house.

Houseroom

HOUSEROOM, noun hous'room. Room or place in a house.

Housesnail

HOUSESNAIL, noun A particular kind of snail.

Housewarming

HOUSEWARMING, noun hous'warming. A feast or merry making at the time a family enters a new house.

Housewife

HOUSEWIFE, noun hous'wife. [house and wife; contracted into huswife, hussy.] The mistress of a family.

1. A female economist; a good manager.

2. One skilled in female business.

3. A little case or bag for articles of female work.

Housewifely

HOUSEWIFELY, adjective hous'wifely. Pertaining to the mistress of a family.

1. Taken from housewifery, or domestic affairs; as a housewifely metaphor.

Housewifery

HOUSEWIFERY, noun hous'wifery. The business of the mistress of a family; female business in the economy of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

Housing

HOUS'ING , noun Among seamen, a small line formed of three strands, smaller than rope-yard, used for seizings, etc.

Housling

HOUS'LING, adjective [See Housel.] Sacramental; as housling fire, used in the sacrament of marriage.

Houss

HOUSS, a covering. [See Housing.]

Hove

HOVE, preterit tense of heave.

Hovel

HOV'EL, noun A shed; a cottage; a mean house.

HOV'EL, verb transitive To put in a hovel; to shelter.

Hoven

HOVEN, participle passive of heave.

Hover

HOV'ER, verb intransitive

1. To flap the wings, as a fowl; to hang over or about, fluttering or flapping the wings, with short irregular flights.

Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it.

2. To hang over or around, with irregular motions.

A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.

3. To stand in suspense or expectation.

4. To wander about from place to place in the neighborhood; to move back and forth; as an army hovering on our borders; a ship hovering on our coast.

HOV'ER, noun A protection or shelter by hanging over.

Hover-Ground

HOV'ER-GROUND, noun Light ground.

Hovering

HOV'ERING, participle present tense Flapping the wings; hanging over or around; moving with short irregular flights.

How

HOW, adverb In what manner. I know not how to answer.

HOW can a man be born when he is old?

HOW can these things be? John 3:4.

1. To what degree or extent. how long shall we suffer these indignities? how much better is wisdom than gold!

O how love I thy law! how sweet are thy words to my taste. Psalms 119:84.

2. For what reason; from what cause.

HOW now, my love, why is your cheek so pale?

3. By what means. how can this effect by produced?

4. In what state.

HOW, and with what reproach shall I return!

5. It is used in a sense marking proportion; as how much less; how much more.

Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants--how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay-- Job 4:19.

By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility and fountains and rivers of the earth.

6. It is much used in exclamation.

HOW are the mighty fallen! 2 Samuel 1:4.

7. In some popular phrases, how is superfluous or inelegant.

Thick clouds put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown.

Howbeit

HOWBE'IT, adverb [how, be, and it.] Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; but; however.

Howdy

HOW'DY, noun A midwife. [Local.]

HOW D'YE, how do you? how is your health?

However

HOWEV'ER, adverb [how and ever.] In whatever manner or degree; as, however good or bad style may be.

1. At all events; at least.

Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be, however from the greatest evils.

2. Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet. I shall not oppose your design; I cannot however approve of it.

You might howe'er have took a fairer way.

Howitz

HOW'ITZ

HOW'ITZER, noun A kind of mortar or short gun, mounted on a field carriage, and used for throwing shells. The difference between a mortar and a howitz is that the trunnions of a mortar are at the end, but those of a howitz are at the middle.

Howker

HOW'KER, noun A Dutch vessel with two masts, a main and a mizen-mast; also, a fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland.

Howl

HOWL, verb intransitive [Latin ululo.]

1. To cry as a dog or wolf; to utter a particular kind of loud, protracted and mournful sound. We say, the dog howls; the wolf howls. Hence,

2. To utter a loud, mournful sound, expressive of distress; to wail.

HOWL lye, for the day of the Lord is at hand. Isaiah 13:6.

Ye rich men, weep and howl James 5:1.

3. To roar; as a tempest.

HOWL, verb transitive To utter or speak with outcry.

Go--howl it out in deserts.

HOWL, noun The cry of a dog or wolf, or other like sound.

1. The cry of a human being in horror or anguish.

Howlet

HOWL'ET, noun A fowl of the owl kind, which utters a mournful cry. It is as large as a pullet.

Howling

HOWL'ING, participle present tense Uttering the cry of a dog or wolf; uttering a loud cry of distress.

HOWL'ING, adjective Filled with howls, or howling beasts; dreary.

Innumerable artifices and stratagems are acted in the howling wilderness and in the great deep, that can never come to our knowledge.

HOWL'ING, noun The act of howling; a loud outcry or mournful sound.

Howsoever

HOWSOEV'ER, adverb [how, so, and ever.]

1. In what manner soever.

2. Although.

[For this word, however is generally used.]

Hox

HOX, verb transitive To hough; to hamstring. [Not used. See Hough.]

Hoy

HOY, noun A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in conveying passengers and goods from place to place on the sea coast, or in transporting goods to and from a ship in a road or bay.

HOY, an exclamation, of no definite meaning.

HUB. [See Hob.]

Hub

HUB, noun The nave of a wheel; a solid piece of timber in which the spokes are inserted.

HOB, noun A clown; a fairy.

Hubbub

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

Huck

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

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

Huckaback

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

Huckle

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

Hucklebacked

HUCK'LEBACKED, adjective Having round shoulders.

Hucklebone

HUCK'LEBONE, noun The hip bone.

Huckster

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.

Hucksteress

HUCK'STERESS, noun A female peddlar.

Hud

HUD, noun The shell or hull of a hut.

Huddle

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.

Huddled

HUD'DLED, participle passive Crowded together without order.

Huddling

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

Hue

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.

Huer

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

Huff

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.

Huffed

HUFF'ED, participle passive Swelled; puffed up.

Huffer

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

Huffiness

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

Huffing

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

Huffish

HUFF'ISH, adjective Arrogant; insolent; hectoring.

Huffishly

HUFF'ISHLY, adverb With arrogance or blustering.

Huffishness

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

Huffy

HUFF'Y, adjective Swelled or swelling; petulant.

Hug

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

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.

Hugely

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

Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea?

Hugeness

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

Hugger-Mugger

HUG'GER-MUGGER, noun [Hugger contains the elements of hug and hedge, and mugger, those of smoke.]

In hugger-mugger denotes in privacy or secrecy, and the word adverbially used, denotes secretly. [It is a low cant word.]

Huguenot

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

Huguenotism

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

Hugy

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

Huisher

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

Huke

HUKE, noun A cloke; a hyke.

Hulch

HULCH, noun A bunch. [Not used.]

Hulchis

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

Hulk

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.]

Hulky

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

Hull

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.

Hully

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

Hulotheism

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.

Hulver

HUL'VER, noun Holly, a tree.

Hum

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.

Human

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.]

Humanate

HU'MANATE, adjective Endued with humanity.

Humane

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.

Humanely

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

1. In a humane manner; with kind feelings.

Humaneness

HUMA'NENESS, noun Tenderness.

Humanist

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.

Humanity

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.

Humanization

HUMANIZA'TION, noun The act of humanizing.

Humanize

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?

Humanized

HU'MANIZED, participle passive softened; rendered humane.

Humanizing

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

Humankind

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

Humanly

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.

Humation

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

Humbird

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.

Humble

HUM'BLE, a. [L. 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. Without a humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation. 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. 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 Pet.5. Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart. 2 Chron. 32.4. 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. Deut. 21. To humble one's self, to repent; to afflict one's self for sin; to make contrite.

Humblebee

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

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

Humbled

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

Humblemouthed

HUM'BLEMOUTHED, adjective Mild; meek; modest.

Humbleness

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

Humbleplant

HUM'BLEPLANT, noun A species of sensitive plant.

Humbler

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

Humbles

HUM'BLES

UM'BLES, noun Entrails of a deer.

Humbly

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.

Humboldite

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.

Humbug

HUM'BUG, noun An imposition.

Humdrum

HUM'DRUM, adjective Dull; stupid.

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

Humect

HUMECT'

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

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

Humectation

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

Humective

HUMEC'TIVE, adjective Having the power to moisten.

Humeral

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

Belonging to the shoulder; as the humeral artery.

Humhum

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

Humicubation

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

A lying on the ground. [Little used.]

Humid

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.

Humidity

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.

Humidness

HU'MIDNESS, noun Humidity.

Humiliate

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

Humiliated

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

Humiliating

HUMIL'IATING, participle present tense Humbling; depressing.

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

Humiliation

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.

Humility

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.

Humite

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.

Hummer

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

Humming

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

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

Humming-Bird

HUM'MING-BIRD, noun A very small bird of the genus Trochilus; so called from the sound of its wings in flight. The rostrum is subulate, filiform, and longer than the head; the tongue is filiform and tubulous. It never lights to take food, but feeds while on the wing.

Humor

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.

Humoral

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.

Humored

HU'MORED, participle passive Indulged; favored.

Humoring

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

Humorist

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.

Humorous

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.]

Humorously

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

Humorousness

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

1. Fickleness; capriciousness.

2. Peevishness; petulance.

Humorsome

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.

Humorsomely

HU'MORSOMELY, adverb Peevishly; petulantly.

1. Oddly; humorously.

Hump

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

Humpback

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

Humpbacked

HUMP'BACKED, adjective Having a crooked back.

Hunch

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.

Hunchbacked

HUNCH'BACKED, adjective Having a crooked back.

Hundred

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.]

Hundred-Court

HUND'RED-COURT, noun In England, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred.

Hundreder

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.

Hundredth

HUND'REDTH, adjective The ordinal of a hundred.

Hung

HUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of hang.

Hungary-Water

HUNGARY-WATER, noun A distilled water prepared from the tops of flowers of rosemary; so called froma queen of Hungary, for whose use it as first made.

Hunger

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.]

Hunger-Bit

HUN'GER-BIT

HUN'GER-BITTEN, adjective Pained, pinched or weakened by hunger.

Hunger-Bitten

HUN'GER-BITTEN, a. Pained, pinched or weakened by hunger.

Hunger-Starved

HUN'GER-ST'ARVED, adjective Starved with hunger; pinched by want of food.

Hungering

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

Hungerly

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

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

Hungred

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

Hungrily

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

When on harsh acorns hungrily they fed.

Hungry

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

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

Huns

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