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e hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

op. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

early at the same hour for several days. -- Harvest mouse (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zoöl.) Se…

with interruption and hesitation. Cut it short; don't prose -- don't hum and haw. Chesterfield.

A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.

ming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home. Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone. A. Lincoln.

evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson.

A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

A piece of armor to protect the heels. Chesterfield.

e distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Abounding with herbs. "Fields poetically called herbose." Byrom.

self. But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges iii. 19. David hid himself in the field. 1 Sam. xx. 24. The Lord himself shall give you a sign. Is. vii. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. With shame remembers, while himself was one Of the same h…

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]

A field where hops are raised.

An army; a number of men gathered for war. A host so great as covered all the field. Dryden.

One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog.

A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.

o follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. Gen. xxvii. 5.

up his ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.