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that yields obey the victor's hest. Fairfax. Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full. Tennyson.

Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.

Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.

stion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle. Tennyson. To hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.

h a hissing sound. The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise. Tennyson.

isage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. Milton. He scarcely hit my humor. Tennyson.

han; of fewer years than. And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers. Tennyson. To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Huxley.…

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. The hive of Roman liars. Tennyson. Hive bee (Zoöl.), the honeybee.

Same as Hobnob. Tennyson.

down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson.

a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold. Chaucer. New comers in an ancient hold Tennyson.

. The holes where eyes should be. Shak. The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes. Tennyson. The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. 2 Kings xii. 9.

rew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.

Low, flat land. Wordsworth. The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms. Tennyson. Holm thrush (Zoöl.), the missel thrush.

and heath." Chaucer. She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. Tennyson.

bundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson. Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. Prior.

eying and making love." Shak. Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord. Tennyson.

eet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. Tennyson.

a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

The condition or quality of being a horse; that which pertains to a horse. Tennyson.