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The killing of one human being by another.

In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.

e, position, or privilege. Say, what is honor 'T is the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offense Suffered or done. Wordsworth. I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. Lovelace.

A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

und, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit. Humboldt.

showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.

mfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. At length have housed me in a humble shed. Young. House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse. Evelyn.

A hump; a protuberance.

A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.

Having a humped back.

arent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

ives the dew-point, and this, compared with the reading of one in the air, determines the humidity.

That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.

ting of blood by gravitation. Hypostatic union (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. Tillotson.

hesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. J. S. Mill.

ddle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. Fleming. Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.

A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.