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Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.

One of the Herbivora. P. H. Gosse.

In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).

Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past. Shak.

Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.

A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. Hudibras.

A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee. [Scot.]

One who honors.

Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.] Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling horehound (Ballota nigra). -- Water horehound, a species of the genus Lycopus, resembling mint, but not aromatic.

An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.

That part of a fungus which is covered with the hymenium.

abiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. The hyperborean or frozen sea. C. Butler (1633).

Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

or not acquainted with. [Archaic] Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore. Boyle.

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

m whom it is sought. Imploring all the gods that reign above. Pope. I kneel, and then implore her blessing. Shak.

One who implores.

See Improvvisatore.

ses and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously. [Written also improvisatore.]