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; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge. They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin. Hare.

See Harebell.

See Harebrained.

, one's half, in one's behalf; on one's part. [Obs.] -- To cry halves, to claim an equal share with another. -- To go halves, to share equally between two.

One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

To chase with shouts or outcries. If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare. Shak.

being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

Like a hare. [R.] Huloet.

One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares. [Written also harier.]

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Æneas in the Æneid. The shining quality of an epic hero. Dryden. Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient wo…

y of such qualities. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. Hare.

shes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. Herring gull (Zoöl.), a large gull which feeds in part upo…

n or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. To hoe one's row, to do one's share of a job. [Colloq.]

icular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given. Bouvier. Tomlins.

To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers. Abp. Bramhall.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

is an immanent act of mind. Sir W. Hamilton. An immanent power in the life of the world. Hare.

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth. Well may he then to you his cares impart. Dryden.

Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv.