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A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.

Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Gin made in Holland.

Having the hands horny and callous from labor.

A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] Shak. The painful husband, plowing up his ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.

The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.

Destitute of a husband. Shak.

Frugal; thrifty. [R.] Tusser.

The master of a family. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak.

Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n.

A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.

A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.

Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.

A Linnæan class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.