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The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.

pertaining to or designating plates, processes, or the pictures made by them, in which gradation of tone in the photograph is reproduced by a graduated system of dotted and checkered spots, usually nearly invisible to the unaided eye, produced by the interposition between the camera and the object of a screen. The name…

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [R.] Byron.

tc. See under Drop, Face, etc. -- Hammer fish. See Hammerhead. -- Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold. -- Hammer shell (Zoöl.), any species of Malleus, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a ham…

Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.

A hook, or hooklike process.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

The process of photographic engraving.

A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.

ding genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

Having six processes. Gray.

upon rich, pampering food. -- High Mass. (R. C. Ch.) See under Mass. -- High milling, a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. -- High noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian. -- High place (Script.), an eminence or mound…

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

hich leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

g in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.

Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. Coleridge. Horned bee (Zoöl.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. -- Horned dace (Zo…

increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning (Scots Law), the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.

In what manner or way; by what means or process. How can a man be born when he is old John iii. 4.