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To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.

To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. Chaucer.

An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

ort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream. He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton.

arge cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

h his complaint took a favorable turn. Macaulay. The turns and varieties of all passions. Hooker. Too well the turns of mortal chance I know. Pope.

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.

A reaping hook.

Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.

Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate process.

One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.

Incongruous; inconsistent. "A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.

Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker.

Hooklike; hooked. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Inculpable; not blameworthy. [R.] Hooker.

A hook or claw.

take effect sometimes under, and sometimes above, the natural proportion of their virtue. Hooker. There are several hundred parishes in England under twenty pounds a year. Swift. It was too great an honor for any man under a duke. Addison.

Ruin. "The utter undoing of some." Hooker.

Not falcated, or hooked.

An unfortunate person. Hood. -- Un*for"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Un*for"tu*nate*ness, n.