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r sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets. His works were hawked in every street. Swift.

A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. Swift.

Discontent; secret enmity. Swift. The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. Palfrey.

To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent. Swift.

To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it Swift.

A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.

. Hide and seek, a play of children, in which some hide themselves, and others seek them. Swift.

One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners. Swift.

s Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. Swift. To hit on or upon, to light upon; to come to by chance. "None of them hit upon the art." Addison.

An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. Swift.

To romp rudely or indecently. Swift.

ead high. Let him hold his fingers thus. Shak. To hold a wager, to lay or hazard a wager. Swift. -- To hold forth, to offer; to exhibit; to propose; to put forward. "The propositions which books hold forth and pretend to teach." Locke. -- To held in, to restrain; to curd. -- To hold in hand, to toy with; to keep in…

r shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat. Swift.

One who hopes. Swift.

genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.

ompose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift.

A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.

. Dryden. Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone. Swift.