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A saint. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.

Home. [North of Eng.] Chaucer.

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).

In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.

A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. Swift.

See Unciform.

To hamstring. [Obs.]

A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe. Black Hamburg grape. See under Black. -- Hamburg , a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.

Same as Hamele.

The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier.

A low-grade actor or performer. [Theatrical Slang]

Hook-shaped.

A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.

A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.