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The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.

A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

Of or pertaining to helminthology.

One versed in helminthology.

The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

The flicker; -- called also high-hole. [Local, U. S.]

The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse.

ell under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

d of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.

To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

An inhabitant. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who keeps an inn.

A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.

A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

The Indian jackal.

The dhole.