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A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. Every mountain and hill shall be made low. Is. xl. 4.

To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.

Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. Raymond.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

One who horns or cuckolds. [Obs.] Massinger.

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes. Bacon.

A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

as the vestments, 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 mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

moke 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.

A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.

ch contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, under water. -- Hydraulic main (Gas Works), a horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia. -- Hydraulic…

A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses.

artly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

n of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. -…

A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall. Coleridge.