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ld; -- used chiefly in the plural. "Thicker than a cuckold's horn." Shak. Horn block, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called horn plate. -- Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma. -- Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn. --…

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.

A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together…

In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

lavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

ven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay.

A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium.

eous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.

The supporting frame of a run of millstones. Husks of the prodigal son (Bot.), the pods of the carob tree. See Carob.

A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.

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

A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.