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d by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.

A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings. "Hosanna to the Highest." Milton. Hosanna to the Son of David. Matt. xxi. 9.

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.

tice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. Shak.

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

A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.

A screw hob. See Hob,

To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.

d by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.

game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

hless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.

A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.

e of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or "incommunicable name" of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost.

to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone.

o with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. I on thy grave this epitaph incise. T. Carew.

Not concrete. [R.] L. Andrews.

That which indemnifies. No reward with the name of an indemnification. De Quincey.

ch induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil. "Mark the inducement." Shak.