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To shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller.

ignation; identity in relations. Holland. Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. Fuller.

A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.

to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling. Fuller.

er-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." [Obs.] Fuller.

ittle time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

e fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. "This hyperbolical epitaph." Fuller. Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic cosines,…

l insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. Fuller.

drooping country's broken wing. Shak. Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes. Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleveland.

trick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.

Not capable of being borne; impassible. A spirit, and so impatible of material fire. Fuller.

o invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.

To plunge. Fuller.

ce; consequence; that which is important. [Obs.] Shak. "Careful to conceal importancies." Fuller.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. [R.] Fuller.

Imposture. [Obs.] Fuller.

. South. The very constitution of a multitude is not so inclinable to save as to destroy. Fuller.