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A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.

nding around the well of such a staircase. -- Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel. -- Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name…

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

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold.

, found on the northern shores of Europe and America. -- Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. -- Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. -- Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a match of ho…

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

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight.

A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

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

Huge. [Obs.] Herrick.

ne shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.

To practice trick or deception. To impose on or upon, to pass or put a trick on; to delude. "He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things." Locke.

An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

-- Indian dye, the puccoon. -- Indian fig. (Bot.) (a) The banyan. See Banyan. (b) The prickly pear. -- Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially when on the war path. -- Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition o…

Undivided. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

rs which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.