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A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

s with up and out. I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos. ii. 6. Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north. Milton.

ed to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. He descended into hell. Book of Common Prayer. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Ps. xvi. 10.

A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. Brewer.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.

The price; reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.

luted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc.

o keep silence.- To hold out. (a) To extend; to offer. "Fortune holds out these to you as rewards." B. Jonson. (b) To continue to do or to suffer; to endure. "He can not long hold out these pangs." Shak. -- To hold up. (a) To raise; to lift; as, hold up your head. (b) To support; to sustain. "He holds himself up in vi…

surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.

ented grass (Hierochloa borealis and H. alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and western parts of the United States. Called also vanilla, or Seneca, grass. -- Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day. -- Holy Land, Palest…

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

One who works or deal in horn or horns. [R.] Grew.