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Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they develo…

A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. Mitford.

or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend. We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of deity or empire. Milton.

A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. "Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David]." 1 Sam. xvi. 13.

e house of Israel. The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name. Tennyson.

A shouting or vociferation. Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to ai…

The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.

An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ. [Written also hydraulis.]

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.

Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyracanian) Sea. "The Hyrcan tiger." "Hyracanian deserts." Shak.

A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

e crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.

tion or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. Bp. Hurd.

Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. -- n.