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Having six processes. Gray.

Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. Gray.

sailor hitches up his trousers. (c) To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. [Colloq.]

White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser.

White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.

mely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray.

m), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also horned poppy. Gray. -- Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. -- Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. -- Horn shell (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of th…

mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.

A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. Hop hornbe…

having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.

Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent. Gray.

a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.

e of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. Shak.

dge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. -- Hunting spider (Zoöl.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.

Confusedly; in a bustle. [Obs.] Gray.

An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

he sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. Gray.

Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.

mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Shak. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray.