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Theatrical representation; acting; affectation. Sir T. Browne.

ent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. Crime and shame And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning.

A swineherd. W. Browne.

actured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.

continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral. Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer. Sir T. Browne. Horary circles. See Circles.

The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species. Hornblende schist (Geol.), a hornblende rock of schistose structu…

A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white- faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has simil…

f measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions. "The horometry of antiquity." Sir T. Browne.

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.

An owl; an owlet. [Written also houlet.] R. Browning.

A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

Humiliating; humbling. "Humiliant thoughts." [R.] Mrs. Browning.

A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.

A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

tle hurtled in the air. Shak. The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground. Mrs. Browning.

ear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton. Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.