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Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.] Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.

ned. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.

A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t. I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. Cook.

Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.] The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.

To change for the better; to remedy. Cease to lament for what thou canst not help. Shak.

Having spirals of changing direction. Gray.

A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

ix parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." S. W. Williams.

A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point. I. Taylor

o Hippocrates, or to his teachings. Hippocratic face Etym: [L. facies Hippocratica], the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead…

The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

To hang. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange.

That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged. The sum of all the points which are seen single, while the point of sight remains unchanged, is called the horopter. J. Le Conte.

riendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight. Dryden.