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A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a.

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

Blusteringly; arrogantly. [R.] And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.

Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n.

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak.

A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

s coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.

f a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.

st (Min.), a mica schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel.

Dropsical, or resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

ter-tight bellowslike case with a long, upright tube, into which water may be poured to illustrate the hydrostatic paradox. -- Hydrostatic paradox, the proposition in hydrostatics that any quantity of water, however small, may be made to counterbalance any weight, however great; or the law of the equality of pressure…

One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

h is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.

he pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.

ement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.