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o take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. Sir W. Temple. -- To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] Spenser.

A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. " The fox has gone to holt." C. Kingsley.

A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.

into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. At length have housed me in a humble shed. Young. House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthous…

occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.

An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.

A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.

A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

worn round the shoulders by the officiating priest or his attendant at Mass, and used to protect the sacred vessels from contact with the hands.

A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

se of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.

Idealism. J. Grote.

her species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative. -- Im"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Im"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

Exempt; protected by inoculation. -- Im*mu"nize, v. t.

Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.