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A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.

A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.

definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post. My sword hacked like a handsaw. Shak.

A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. Gray.

The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Same as Hagbut.

The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel. [U.S.]

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.

A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

Rough or broken, as if hacked.

The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.

The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.

A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer.

A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin. [Obs.] Milton.

Same as Acton. [Obs.]

See Have. Had as lief, Had rather, Had better, Had as soon, etc., with a nominative and followed by the infinitive without to, are well established idiomatic forms. The original construction was that of the dative with forms of be, followed by the infinitive. See Had better, under Better. And lever me is be pore and tr…

Heather; heath. [Obs.] Burton.