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r receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

An inn. [Archaic] Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.

. The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name. Tennyson.

The eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.

l thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.

er confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddled on the lea. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.

ogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson.

for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson.

e East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.

t; a stain; as of sin. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson.

; to soothe. With thou, then, Hush my cares Otway. And hush'd my deepest grief of all. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

e electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

when they rose with the sun. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

coldly. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. Tennyson.

m, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred. "Idalian Aphrodité." Tennyson.

Rendered idiotic; befooled. [R.] Tennyson.

tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. "Immemorial elms." Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom." Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the…

ngross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. The queen immersed in such a trance. Tennyson. It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this. Atterbury.

; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.

as, to inflate one with pride or vanity. Inflate themselves with some insane delight. Tennyson.