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Joint nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

court to investigate acts or omissions which are unofficerlike or ungentlemanly in their nature. -- Debt of honor, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law. -- Honor bright! An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.] -- Honor court (Feudal…

Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." Ray.

but; however. The Moor -- howbeit that I endure him not -Is of a constant, loving, noble nature. Shak.

man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. To err is human; to forgive, divine. Pope.

The study of human nature. [R.] T. W. Collins.

Human nature or disposition; humanity. [She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy.

One versed in knowledge of human nature.

Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

ions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.

humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

ousekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman. "The bounteous huswife Nature." Shak. The huswife is she that do labor doth fall. Tusser.

Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.

Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.

Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.

Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

f blood by gravitation. Hypostatic union (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. Tillotson.

Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilt…

A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body. -- Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep"tic, a.