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The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [Jocose] Hudibraus.

To broil; to grill; hence, To harass. [Obs.] Hudibras.

See Grudge. [Obs.] Hudibras.

, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.

Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.

hearken. [Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He…

To as, to hash meat. Hudibras.

To sell goods by outcry in the street. [Obs.] Hudibras.

or to move something heavy. After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves. Hudibras.

A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. Hudibras. Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.

A juggler. [Cant] hocus pocus Hudibras.

A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. Hudibras.

A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. Hudibras.

s, to hold up under misfortunes. (b) To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up. Hudibras. (c) To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground. Collier.

A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

Destitute of color. Hudibras.

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

Identical. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

Untrodden. [R.] Hudibras. -- In"vi*ous*ness, n. [R.]