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To this; hereunto. Hooker.

The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on. The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. Milton.

A reaping hook. Knight.

To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

se not physical. Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man. Hooker. Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither." Knolles.

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

ng used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. "His holdfast was gone." Bp. Montagu.

t paid by external action; obeisance. All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage. Hooker. I sought no homage from the race that write. Pope.

to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker.

oft tongue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

Same as Hooker.

r submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood. Hooker.

ten operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids. J. D. Hooker.

ons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before. Hook. -- Hy`po*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. South.

s . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker.

ter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker.

signify. Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.

Want of preparation. [Obs.] Hooker.

of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook.

nt of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.