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A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. Toone. Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant. Shak. Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! Shak.

sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. Addison.

Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder. But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. Byron.

A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part. "The heel of a hunt." A. Trollope. "The heel of the white loaf." Sir W. Scott.

dent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.] The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.

A yarn measure of six hundred yards or of a spindle. See Spindle.

A photograph in colors. R. Hunt.

Photography. R. Hunt.

A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.

Hung. Chaucer.

A kind of low-hung cab.

n heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.