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A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

uin caterpillar. (Zoöl.), the larva of an American bombycid moth (Euchætes egle) which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair. -- Harlequin duck (Zoöl.), a North American duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). The male is dark ash, curiously streaked with white. -- Harlequin moth. (Zoöl.) See Magpi…

Covered with a hat.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.

A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

s Murex. -- Hedgehog thistle (Bot.), a plant of the Cactus family, globular in form, and covered with spines (Echinocactus). -- Sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Covered with a helmet. The helmed cherubim Are seen in glittering ranks. Milton.

Covered with grass. Thomson.

Covered with herbs. [Obs.] Bailey.

Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage. "Herby valleys." Chapman.

Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.

Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate. -- Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

Covered with honey.

Covered with honeysuckles.