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A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.

To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles. Milton.

The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

Covered with a husk.

A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

r, a form of hygrometer consisting of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cooled by the evaporation of the ether within, is soon covered with dew; at this moment, the…

ly manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.

That part of a fungus which is covered with the hymenium.

A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.

ler. -- Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. Kane. -- Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. -- Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a vol…

Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.

A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal. [R.] Shak.

To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.

Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. -- n.

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

Covered with gold; gilded.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.