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An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. Totten.

Same as Housling.

Sacramental; as, housling fire. [R.] Spenser.

e sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also hovelling.]

An extract of hops.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.

Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley.

The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.

The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

ards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.