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One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

r to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

One versed in knowledge of human nature.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

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

One versed in hygiene.

e doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology. Busby.

ve, the law of which is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector.

of its axes. The surface has two separate sheets when the axis of revolution is the transverse axis, but only one when the axis of revolution is the conjugate axis of the hyperbola.

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure. Hypermetrical verse (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure.

One who is versed in hypnology.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.

One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.