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The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation. [R.]

Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. Bullokar.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.

To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.] Grew.

To moisten; to wet. [Obs.] Howell.

A moistening. [Obs.] Bacon.

A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids. The first discovery made in hydrostatics since the time of Archimedes is due to Stevinus. Hallam. Hydrostatic balance, a balance for weighing substances in water, for the purpose of ascertaining their spec…

According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles. Bentley.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

ressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.

The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture. Evelyn.

onstitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle.

In a hypostatic manner.

garded as, a separate and distinct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.

The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble. [R.] A. Wilson.