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One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. "A billman of the guard." Savile.

Somewhat; something, but not very great. My young companion was a bit of a poet. T. Hook.

Full of blisters. Hooker.

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to chang…

To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.] Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker.

, what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.

Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold. Within the bosom of that church. Hooker.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt.

A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

remony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].

eculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

cannot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways. Hooker. There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses. Addison.

A globule of metal remaining onan assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American comp…

incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.

To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.

g life of it." Coleridge. -- Cat block (Naut.), a heavy iron-strapped block with a large hook, part of the tackle used in drawing an anchor up to the cathead. -- Cat hook (Naut.), a strong hook attached to a cat block. -- Cat nap, a very short sleep. [Colloq.] -- Cat o' nine tails, an instrument of punishment consis…

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.