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silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

h of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking. A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak ham. Shak.

A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe. Black Hamburg grape. See under Black. -- Hamburg , a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

e; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber. "Hampered nerves." Blackmore. A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange. They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.

ness of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

y covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

cky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." W. Black.

Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

longimanus) having very long legs and antennæ. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabbage bug. (Zoöl.) See Calicoback. -- Harlequin caterpillar. (Zoöl.), the larva of an American bombycid moth (Euchætes egle) which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair. -…

(Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.

oca Groenlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, foun…

Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

us caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]

Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.

A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

d genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidæ. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense t…

The European blackcap.