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thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay.

i. 16. A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of learning was highly commendable. Macaulay.

critical and thankless spirit. Lowell. -- To take horse. (a) To set out on horseback. Macaulay. (b) To be covered, as a mare. (c) See definition 7 (above).

Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.

use with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

oise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.

in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

A buzz or murmur, as of approbation. Macaulay.

ues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay.

ph, applause, encouragement, or welcome. Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre. Macaulay.

push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay.

said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving. Macaulay.

A person affected with hypochondriasis. He had become an incurable hypochondriac. Macaulay.

sary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

tion. Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.

the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

tt. xii. 36. Down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. This idle story became important. Macaulay.

Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence. Macaulay.

k. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.