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To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.

The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).

A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]

With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong. Acts i. 18.

To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. Prior. The heaving plain of ocea…

; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

elp one to soup. -- To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that trusts to you." Shak.

Of them; their. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. On here bare knees adown they fall. Chaucer.

one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

se shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.

.] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. Spenser.

A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip.

The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.

ven situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. The loops held one curtain to another. Ex. xxxvi. 12. Thy right hand shall hold me. Ps. cxxxix. 10. They all hold swords, being expert in war. Cant. ii…

to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls. -- Hopper closet, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap. -- Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.

line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial. -- Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. Locke. -- Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal…

hirfty woman. "The bounteous huswife Nature." Shak. The huswife is she that do labor doth fall. Tusser.

nt loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.

ut one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. What is now "idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has star…

A false notion or conception; a fallacy. Bacon. The idols of preconceived opinion. Coleridge.