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bbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. W. E. Norris.

A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.

Hot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote. [Obs.] Chaucer. A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte. Piers Plowman.

recipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable. All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.

Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. "She's not within hearing." Shak. They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. Tennyson.

substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine. -- Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. -- Heat rays, a term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum. -- Heat weight…

In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.

A photograph in colors. R. Hunt.

The art of producing photographs in color.

A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.

Photography. R. Hunt.

The process of photographic engraving.

A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

r suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

Variant of Hote. [Obs.] But one avow to greate God I hete. Chaucer.

The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.

Hotchpot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.