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The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple.

To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish. Now hurtling round, advantage for to take. Spenser. Down the hurtling cataract of the ages. R. L. Stevenson.

The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill. Tusser.

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

One skilled in hydrology.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

e Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin. Hypodermic medication, the application of remedies under the epidermis, usually by means of a small syringe, called the hypodermic syringe. -- Hyp`o*der"mic*al*ly, adv.

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.

A fragrant kind of green tea. Hyson skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M'Culloch.

A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

ous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.

A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin. -- Ich`thy*ot"ic, a.

One skilled in ichthyotomy.

Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

An Eskimo snow house.

A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach Denham.

re; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.