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Covered with grass. Thomson.

Covered with herbs. [Obs.] Bailey.

Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage. "Herby valleys." Chapman.

Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit. Coventry.

f the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. -- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sl…

Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.

A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall.

Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. " The fox has gone to holt." C. Kingsley.

A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate. -- Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey. Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech Marston.

Covered with honey.

Covered with honeysuckles.

A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially:

Covered with a hood.

To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak.

The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. Tennyson.