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ed from that of Europe by its low, straggling stems. -- Ground hog. (Zoöl.) (a) The woodchuck or American marmot (Arctomys monax). See Woodchuck. (b) The aardvark. -- Ground hold (Naut.), ground tackle. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Ground ice, ice formed at the bottom of a body of water before it forms on the surface. -- Gro…

ence, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle. Tennyson. To hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.

region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

A huck or hull, as of a nut. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

as, to hug the land; to hug the wind. To hug one's self, to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.

See Huckster.

shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.

he great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians. -- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman l…

osterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.

An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.

A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin.

A huckster; a cadger. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. Shak. He laugheth that winneth. Heywood's Prov.

. [Written also manderil.] Mandrel lathe, a lathe with a stout spindle, adapted esp. for chucking, as for forming hollow articles by turning or spinning.

The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny. [Low] The chuckling grin of noodles. Sydney Smith.

Broadly elliptical. Oval chuck (Mech.), a lathe chuck so constructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool in the usual manner, becomes of an oval form.

or burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients. [Written also putchuck.]

about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.