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In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.

With hesitation or doubt.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

In a hinting manner.

An encounter; a battle. "Fierce hosting." Milton.

The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah.…

dates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Illuminating gas. See Gas, n., 2 (a).

The laying on of colors to produce impasto.

Full of meaning. [Obs.] Shak.

Enchanting. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

So as to incite or stimulate.

Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Inconsistent. [Obs.]

Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Not discriminating. -- In`dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv.

Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form or color; the difference between them was indisguishable.…

In a indistinguishable manner. Sir W. Scott.

Indistinct. [R.] "That indistinguished mass." Sir T. Browne.

Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.