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ford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. Swift.

Hook-shaped.

pod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

Having the end hooked or curved.

Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. Gray.

A little hook.

Bearing a small hook at the end. Gray.

A hook, or hooklike process.

A pruning hook. [Usually written hand bill.]

d point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.

e the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.

into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

ffense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.

At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. Hooker.

Into this. Hooker.