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An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.

To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight. Dryden.

Blustering; swaggering. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Blusteringly; arrogantly. [R.] And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.

Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n.

The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.

Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological. When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity. Fleming. Identical equation (Alg.), an…

The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun. [R.]

mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d,…

ps of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.

Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in- going tenant.

To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. [Written also enclasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot.

drant, sextant, etc. -- Index hand, the pointer or hand of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; a hand that points to something. -- Index of a logarithm (Math.), the integral part of the logarithm, and always one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. It is also called the characterist…

An infinity; an incalculable or very great number. Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er With infinite of pearls and finest gold. Fanshawe.

Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part. Acts where no sin is ingredient. Jer. Taylor.

The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.

Act of entering; entrance. Sir K. Digby.