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To linger in expectation or with desire. Thackeray.

brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.

ess. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

ng flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable. Thackeray.

The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus). [Written also heckimel, hackeymal, hackmall, hagmall, and hickmall.]

Same as Hackle.

ash, manner. -- To have the heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follo…

a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zoöl.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvæ live between the bas…

To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack. Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder. Shak.

victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. "With rather a high manner." Thackeray. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Ps. lxxxix. 13. Can heavenly minds such high resentment show Dryden.

is weak in the faith receive. Rom. xiv. 1. Friends who have given him the most sympathy. Thackeray.

To stupefy with drugged liquor. Thackeray.

An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis).

lity; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook, a small boat hook. -- Chain hook. See under Chain. -- Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests. -- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hook…

A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

as formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.

pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. "I am angry and hurt." Thackeray.

One who is unknown. Bp. Hacket.

The state of being impecunious. Thackeray. Sir W. Scott.