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A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry. [Scot.]

Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.

A half part. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.

ession of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. ) So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Milton. In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs." Sharp.

ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. Milton.

Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature. I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. Shak. Some writs require a judge's hand. Burril.

A pruning hook. [Usually written hand bill.]

A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.

A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger. I knew by these harbingers who were coming. Landor.

y; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus ærunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus). Harrier hawk(Micrastur.

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

tle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.] Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.

A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.

The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

most; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner. -- To have the heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bu…

A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

purpose; irregularly. [Colloq.] Helter-skelter have I rode to thee. Shak. A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof. J. C. Harris.

A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger. It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shak.