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of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.

udge. Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. Goldsmith.

The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole earth. J. H. Newman. Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air. -- Drop hammer, Face ha…

To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.

One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession. Dryden.

or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

anders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), curiously variegated with white spots. -- Harlequin beetle (Zoöl.), a very large South American beetle (A…

who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. Goldsmith.

ce, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison. The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white- flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. Moxon.

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

A message transmitted by a heliograph.

Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith.

to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.

angers; as, hospitable rites. To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Goldsmith.

se of Hanover; the house of Israel. The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name. Tennyson.

entimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.

facetiousness. For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasa…