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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. Hogging frame. See Hogframe.

HOLARCTIC a. 2 definitions

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif. (Zoögeography),

HOLLOW a. 11 definitions

; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. Milton. Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase. -- Hollow quoin (…

HOMELY a. 4 definitions

Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic] With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray.

HONORARY a. 3 definitions

, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison.

HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING n.

A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.

ing from the eyelids. -- Horned grebe (Zoöl.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. -- Horned horse (Zoöl.), the gnu. -- Horned lark (Zoöl.), the shore lark. -- Horned lizard (Zoöl.), the horned toad. -- Horned owl (Zoöl.), a large Nor…

HORRID a. 2 definitions

Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic] Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden.

HORROR n. 4 definitions

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman.

See Hose. [Archaic]

HOSTEL n. 2 definitions

An inn. [Archaic] Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.

An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

HOTE v. 3 definitions

To be called; to be named. [Obs.] There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite. Chaucer.

HOUSEL n. 2 definitions

The eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.

HOVER n. 3 definitions

A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.

HUGGER-MUGGER n. 3 definitions

Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.

Hungered; hungry. [Archaic]

borders of Lake Huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Archæan age.

A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride. [Archaic]